The Market Trends Subcommittee of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association recently released its latest edition of (i) the Strategic Buyer/Public Target M&A Deal Points Study which analyses acquisitions of US publicly-traded targets announced in 2014 and (ii) the Canadian Public Target M&A Deal Points Study which analyses acquisitions of Canadian publicly-traded targets announced in 2013 and 2014.  Our colleagues on CanadianM&ALaw.com have highlighted key findings of these studies with respect to material adverse changes, dissent/appraisal rights, no-shop and go shop provisions and superior proposal and match rights, among other types of provisions in public M&A acquisition agreements.

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