The increasing involvement of private equity firms in M&A transactions has not gone unnoticed in the courts.  Our recent article in the New York Law Journal, entitled New Wave of M&A Litigation Attacks Private Equity Deals, addresses several recent decisions from the Delaware Court of Chancery involving private equity firms and management buyouts.  The article concludes that, while the players in the M&A market may have changed, the rules of the game remain the same where the board of directors decides that it’s time to sell the company.

The full article is available here.