Business headlines have warned of a potential “chilling effect on buyouts” as a result of the decision recently issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in In re: Nine West LBO Securities Litigation (Dec. 4, 2020). Contrary to the views of some other commentators on the decision, we do not believe that the decision is likely to chill leveraged buyout activity, to upend how LBOs have been conducted, or to significantly increase the potential of liability for target company directors selling the company in an LBO.
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Amber Banks (Meek) , Bret T. Chrisope , Andrew J. Colosimo , Warren S. de Wied , Steven Epstein , Christopher Ewan , Arthur Fleischer Jr. , Andrea Gede-Lange , David J. Greenwald , Erica Jaffe , Gary L. Kaplan , Randi Lally , Mark H. Lucas , Scott B. Luftglass , Brian T. Mangino , Shant P. Manoukian , Philip Richter , Steven G. Scheinfeld , Brad Eric Scheler , Robert C. Schwenkel , David L. Shaw , Peter L. Simmons , Matthew V. Soran , Steven J. Steinman , Gail Weinstein , Maxwell Yim
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