Entries tagged "Marty Lipton"
Carl Icahn livened a deadly dull late August Monday with a blog post in which he attacked old nemesis Marty Lipton, the M&A lawyer who made his name and fortune defending corporate America. In a recent memorandum to clients, Lipton argued that Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. left itself vulnerable by removing its staggered board in exchange for one in which all directors face reelection every year. InBev NV took advantage of the move to swoop down on AB, Lipton argues....
We found ourselves in a meditative mood Friday afternoon in New Orleans, a state of mind no doubt fueled by a lunch of lemonfish washed down with a nice Chardonnay at Restaurant August. One of the things we meditated on was Marty Lipton's comment at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute Friday morning that U.S. shareholder democracy will have a hard time competing with the state corporatism of Russia, China and other emerging economies. ...
Deal professionals considered crises past and present Friday morning at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans. At a panel marking the conference's 20th anniversary, Martin Lipton and Joe Perella offered a history of the last generation of dealmaking, one punctured every decade or so by meltdowns in one M&A-related market or other....
