There have also been reports that the FTC is actively investigating violations of past merger consent decrees, potentially with the aim of unwinding the previously cleared merger.15 In this vein, the agencies have been issuing “close at your own risk” letters to merging parties in non-challenged and non-remedy transactions that remind the parties that the agencies retain the authority to challenge mergers after they have closed and that expiration of an HSR waiting period does not… [read post]

  This son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, and former law professor and SEC chairman, wrote fifty-one books on a wide variety of topics ranging from foreign policy to psychiatry, from corporate reorganization to environmentalism, and from stare decisis to manifest destiny. [read post]

Even though business laws, including corporate and securities laws, have been heavily influenced in the last several decades by what can fairly be called an ideology of profit maximization, much of the law has in practice withstood efforts to reduce business law’s prescriptions to this single objective.[2] In the American Law Institute’s Principles of Corporate Governance, for example, the objective of business corporations to act “with a view to… [read post]

In case you want to reach Nick Alden or Dennis Moore, the two lawyers in this case, here’s their contact information: Nick Alden, Attorney at Law 1380 Davies Dr. [read post]

. *** President Touts Corporate DREAM Act … errr … “America Invents Act” HP Garage In his September 8 speech on jobs, President Obama touted the America Invents Act as a way “that entrepreneurs can turn a new idea into a new business as quickly as possible. [read post]