Introduction: The Deal Lawyers’ Guide to Public and Private Company Acquisitions
By H. Rodgin Cohen and Samuel C. Thompson, Jr.
We are the Co-Chairs of the Eighth Annual Institute on Corporate, Securities, and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions (the “M&A Institute”), which was jointly sponsored by the Penn State Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions and the Center for CLE of the New York City Bar. The Institute was held at the New York City Bar on October 13 and 14, 2011.
This Symposium Issue of the Penn State Law Review contains (1) annotated transcripts of three of the panels at the M&A Institute, and (2) five articles based on, and extensions of, several of the many presentations made at the Institute. It gives us great pleasure to introduce the transcripts and articles contained in this Symposium Issue.