Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance

Sidley is pleased to share the Summer 2019 issue of Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance, a quarterly newsletter designed to keep you current on what we consider to be the most important legal developments involving M&A and corporate governance matters. Topics covered in this issue include the following:

ANALYSIS 

• How the Type of Buyer May Affect the Target’s Remedies in a Failed Public M&A Deal
  —What Target Boards Should Consider When Evaluating Bids and Bidders
• The Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of the Corporation: A Pragmatic Rejection of the "Tyranny of the 'Or’”

JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENTS

• In a Rare Move, the Delaware Supreme Court Allows a Caremark Claim Against Directors to Proceed
• Delaware Chancery Court Finds Board “Went Too Far” When Requesting Information From Dissident Director Nominees

LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS

• 2019 DGCL Amendments Take Effect Endorsing Electronic Signatures and Delivery

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENTS

• Key Developments From the 2019 Proxy Season
• ISS 2020 Proxy Voting Policy Formulation Underway

Current and past issues of Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance are available on our website. View the Summer 2019 issue here and past issues here.

If you have any questions regarding this issue of Sidley Perspectives or suggestions for topics to be covered in future issues, please contact the Sidley lawyer with whom you usually work or Claire Holland, the editor of the newsletter, at cholland@sidley.com.