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Delaware Court Of Chancery Denies Motion To Dismiss Claims Regarding Squeeze-Out Merger Because Special Committee Members Were Allegedly "Interested"

Shearman & Sterling

2014) ("MFW")—the buyout group conditioned its offer on approval by an independent special committee and a fully informed majority of the company's minority stockholders. In an effort to comply with the procedural protections necessary for deferential review of a merger process involving a controller—under Kahn v. 3d 635 (Del.

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

Investing Principles: Why a High Income Trumps Everything Else Between 2009 and 2014, I did not have a traditional portfolio via a brokerage firm. If you do save up millions by age 35 or 40, it means you probably started a business, worked exceptionally hard, and sold it. If thats your personality, could you see yourself retiring?

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M&A: A Strategic Tool for Supercharged Growth

Sun Acquisitions

Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp: In 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp, a popular mobile messaging app. This M&A deal gave Disney access to Pixar’s cutting-edge technology and talented workforce and allowed Disney to expand its brand into the lucrative market for computer-animated films.

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Drowning in Numbers

Street of Walls

For the class of 2014, Harvard Business School went through 9,000 applications, of which it accepted 12%. Think about it like this: If job markets were ranked like universities for difficulty of admission, Wall Street would be a super-Ivy.

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Drowning in Numbers

Street of Walls

For the class of 2014, Harvard Business School went through 9,000 applications, of which it accepted 12%. Think about it like this: If job markets were ranked like universities for difficulty of admission, Wall Street would be a super-Ivy.

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Drowning in Numbers

Street of Walls

For the class of 2014, Harvard Business School went through 9,000 applications, of which it accepted 12%. Think about it like this: If job markets were ranked like universities for difficulty of admission, Wall Street would be a super-Ivy.

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Drowning in Numbers

Street of Walls

For the class of 2014, Harvard Business School went through 9,000 applications, of which it accepted 12%. Think about it like this: If job markets were ranked like universities for difficulty of admission, Wall Street would be a super-Ivy.