James E. Langston joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in 2011 and became partner in 2015. His practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions, and friendly and hostile M&A, corporate governance, and contested situations. James Langston has significant experience in both cross-border and domestic transactions, including conflict transactions, mergers-of-equals, LBOs, joint ventures, and carve-out transactions. He also frequently represents companies and their board of directors on takeover defense and shareholder activism situations.
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In one of the first opinions addressing fiduciary duty claims in the context of a transaction involving a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), the Delaware Court of Chancery determined that the SPAC shareholders’ right to redeem can be undermined by insufficient disclosures regarding the (...)
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