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Guarding against a hostile takeover (from Corporate Dealmaker)

With company stock prices depressed and access to credit limited, expectations are high that hostile deal activity will increase in 2009. That's what we heard recently from Jim Woolery of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Stephen Gulotta of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. The risk is...

Posted on March 17, 2009 3:21 PM

Inside The Deal: Cravath's Jim Woolery on private bear hug hostiles (from Corporate Dealmaker)

All-time low valuations and fewer defenses against unsolicited bids will lead to more hostile deals in 2009. But according to Jim Woolery, a partner with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, much of that activity will take place outside of the public arena. In this edition of Inside The Deal, Woolery...

Posted on January 28, 2009 1:13 PM

More quietly hostile deals in 2009 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

As Thomas Zadvydas reported Wednesday on TheDeal.com (subscription required), Sequenom Inc. is going hostile with its $41 million offer for rival Exact Sciences Corp. The medical research firm decided to take the offer directly to Exact Sciences' shareholders after the target's management said on Monday it would explore alternatives rather...

Posted on January 15, 2009 2:32 PM

Cravath partner Jim Woolery on the next M&A wave (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Global deal activity managed to hold its own for the first nine months of the year, but as Vipal Monga reports in the current issue of The Deal newsweekly, everything changed after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. crashed. Deal volume slowed to a crawl as tight credit sunk some transactions and...

Posted on October 20, 2008 8:30 AM