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Delaware Chancery Court relies on Ontario decision on confidentiality agreements to block a $5.3 billion hostile bid

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • May 10 2012

Taking a page from Ontario’s playbook, highly respected Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. recently found that a confidentiality agreement could temporarily block a subsequent hostile bid and proxy contest, even in the absence of an explicit standstill provision

Developments in Canadian poison pill jurisprudence

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 19 2012

In a rather active year for hostile M&A activity in Canada, there were only two shareholder rights plan decisions

Key lessons from the Magna decisions

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 30 2010

The recently completed plan of arrangement of Magna International resulted in the elimination of its dual class share structure and the creation of a single class of equity securities in which all shareholders have a vote in proportion to their relative equity stake