UM Law Institutes to Clarify Mergers & Acquisitions

     On February 8 & 9, practitioners as well as corporate counsel from many of the world's largest corporations will gather at the Eden Roc Resort & Spa on Miami Beach for the "Fifth Annual Institute on Mergers & Acquisitions: Corporate, Securities & Related Aspects" presented by UM Law's Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions.

     A month later-on March 8 & 9-the Center will present its "Fourth Annual Institute on Tax Considerations in Mergers & Acquisitions," also at the Eden Roc. For attendees who would like an introduction to the more advanced topics that will be discussed at the Institute, there will be a bonus "Introduction to Tax Issues in Merger & Acquisition Transactions" on March 7.

     "Continuing the tradition we established in prior years, our speakers are some of the nation's leading M&A professionals," noted Prof. Samuel C. Thompson, Jr., director of UM Law's Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions and co-chair of the Institutes.

     "Our program will open with a discussion of the important recent financial, economic and legal developments in the M&A marketplace and will then proceed to examine specific issues, such as the negotiation of public company and private company acquisitions, the structuring of joint ventures, and a review of tax and accounting developments. We are very privileged to have among our speakers the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery and the chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court," he said.

     Co-chairing the February event with Thompson are Harvey A. Goldman, Esq., of Steel Hector and Davis LLP in Miami, and Dennis S. Hersch, Esq., of Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York.

     Because of the world-wide phenomenon of corporate mergers, this year the corporate institute is drawing participants from Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, India , and South America.

     Michael L. Schler, of Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York, is Thompson's co-chair for the highly-regarded tax Institute which draws government officials and practitioners from all over the country. "We have assembled an outstanding group of tax specialists, and we are confident that the Institute will be both challenging and insightful," he said.

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