Mergers & Acquisitions

Finance

Eric Landau, Travis Biffar | Jones Day

On October 14, 2011 Chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Court of Chancery awarded $1.263 billion to Southern Peru Copper Corp. ("Southern Peru") following trial of a derivative lawsuit against a controlling stockholder of Southern Peru and certain of its affiliates who served as...

Private Equity

David J. D'Urso | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: What is the current environment for M&A involving U.S. companies, either as acquirers or as acquisition targets? In what industry sectors do you see the greatest M&A activity? D’Urso: Despite the fact that we are not technically in a recession (two consecutive quarters of...

Antitrust & Competition

Yuval Tal | Proskauer

Editor: As head of Proskauer’s office in Hong Kong, please tell our readers about the Hong Kong office’s key practice areas, the size of your office and the individual practice areas represented in the office. Tal: Our Asia practice is focused on M&A, private equity (both fund...