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Court of Chancery permanently enjoins sale that would violate trust indentures

• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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• USA
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• March 12 2012

In In re BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. Litig., the Delaware Court of Chancery permanently enjoined the acquisition of BankAtlantic, a federal savings bank (“BankAtlantic”), from its bank holding company parent BankAtlantic Bancorp (“Bancorp”) by BB&T Corporation because the transaction would run afoul of the standard successor obligor provisions of the indentures related to Bancorp's trust preferred stock (“TruPS”