This article is the sequel to the author’s previous articles entitled Merger Agreements are Too Long and Disclosure Schedules are a Waste of Money.

When transaction parties draft M&A disclosures, they can almost always add more detail.  They have to make judgments about what information would matter to a reasonable stockholder.  Many months of negotiations may get summarized in a “highlight reel” of just a few pages describing the background of the transaction, and many spreadsheets worth of calculations and assumptions underlying financial projections may get presented in a few tables.

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