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M & A Law Prof Blog
Advantage: Air Products
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
OK, so I listened to the arguments regarding the Airgas bylaw, courtesy of our friends at Courtroom View Network. While I'm terrible about predictions - especially about the future -…
Family Law Prof Blog
Garbling Contractual Language & the Dodgers
By Family Law
The ownership of the Dodgers might hinge on a lawyer’s mistake in drafting a marital property agreement. According to AmericanLawyer.com, the lawyer drafting the agreement recently “took the stand and…
M & A Law Prof Blog
A cobbler knows an awl.
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Ken Adams proposes to resolve the ambiguity of what constitutes the consummation of a transaction in his forthcoming booklet on drafting M&A agreements. Me? I'm generally with Vice Chancellor Laster: As…
Best Practices Construction Law
Tips for Drafting Commercial Real Estate, Development and Construction Contracts
Noted author and business attorney, Peter Siviglia, once said: "In this world, ... there are two forms of writing: creative (such as novels, plays, and poetry) and expository (such as treatises, letters,…
Constructlaw®
New York Appellate Division Holds Oral Directions to Perform Extra Work May Override Contract Provisions Requiring Written Authorization
By Constructlaw
Penava Mechanical Corp. v. Afgo Mechanical Services, Inc. 2010 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1973 (N.Y. App. Div. March 16, 2010) In a contract dispute, the trial court granted motions for…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Adams on Drafting M&A Contracts
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Ken Adams has new booklet on drafting M&A contracts in the works. Here's his post describing the project. It will go online sometime in the next couple of months. I'm…
M & A Law Prof Blog
K&E on Purchase Price Adjustments
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
As we've noted before, purchase agreements relating to the acquisition of a private target often contain one or more post-closing purchase price adjustments (for example a working capital adjustment). As this K&E…
ContractsProf Blog
Computer Game Retailer Uses Contract to Claim 7,500 Immortal Souls
This story from Fox News:A computer game retailer revealedthat it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to aclause in the terms and conditions agreed to by…
Outside Inhouse Lawyer Blog
NY Court of Appeals Reads Entire Asset Purchase Agreement to Include Liabilities
By Grace Healy
It must be pretty distressing for a company that purchased the assets of a boiler business in 1970 to learn that it really purchased the prior owner’s asbestos liability, but…
ContractsProf Blog
Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network
Starting this week, we will be providing a Top Ten Twofer, as there are really two SSRN Top Ten lists that are relevant to readers of this blog. RECENT HITS…