The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:32:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Buyer Beware: The Fiduciary Duties of a Buyer’s Board – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Buyer Beware: The Fiduciary Duties of a Buyer’s Board https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2007/05/24/buyer-beware-the-fiduciary-duties-of-a-buyers-board/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buyer-beware-the-fiduciary-duties-of-a-buyers-board https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2007/05/24/buyer-beware-the-fiduciary-duties-of-a-buyers-board/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 20:11:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2007/05/24/buyer-beware-the-fiduciary-duties-of-?d=20150122115802EST Posted by Mark A. Morton, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP (Delaware), on Thursday, May 24, 2007
Editor's Note:

This post is by Mark A. Morton of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP.

Michael Pittenger, Michael Reilly, and I have prepared an article, Buyer Beware: The Fiduciary Duties of a Buyer’s Board, on Vice Chancellor Parsons‘s decision in Energy Partners, Ltd. v. Stone Energy Corp.  The article discusses the fiduciary duties of buyer boards and posits that buyer boards may, in the appropriate circumstances, need to bargain for contractual flexibility to deal with jumping bids for the buyer.  The article was published in the Spring 2007 issue of Deal Points, the official publication of the Negotiated Acquisition Committee of the American Bar Association.

The full article is available for download here.  In addition, the article may be found on the Potter Anderson & Corroon website in our publications collection.

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