M&A quarterly - 3rd quarter 2013

Our M&A Quarterly from the first quarter of this year (mailed in early April) included an article titled “Appraisal Suits: The Next Frontier in Deal Litigation?” We noted that, based on then-recent experiences with some Delaware company acquisitions, appraisal claims may be the next frontier for shareholders seeking to extract additional value in public company transactions. In the six months since we published that article, several developments in Delaware have reinforced this view.