Public Company M&A Environment: Are You Prepared for Potential Hostility? How Do You Respond?

Foley Partners Patrick Quick and John Wilson, both members of the Transactional & Securities Practice, and Matt Parr, Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions for UBS, presented on the M&A environment for public companies on March 22, 2007. This presentation is a part of Fusion, the quarterly Web seminars focused on providing clear-cut answers to the most challenging M&A questions.

Topics included:

• What companies need to know about current trends: increased hostile M&A activity, reduced takeover defenses and increased shareholder activism
  
• How companies can prepare for and respond to unsolicited offers, hedge fund attacks and proxy contests
  
• How to advise the Board of Directors with respect to defensive measures, responses to offers and threats, and a potential sale of the company

Learn more about other events planned in this series by going to Foley.com/Fusion.