Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Tatjana Paterno will serve as a guest lecturer along with Kim Uva, General Counsel, Business Development at Quest Diagnostics for a course titled, “Mergers & Acquisitions: A Practitioner’s Perspective Class,” at Duke University School of Law. The course will consider and analyze corporate mergers and acquisitions and the process of initiating and completing a corporate acquisition.
Topics covered will include:
- Structures commonly used in M&A transactions
- Strategies employed by the acquiring company and the target firm in negotiating an acquisition
- The critical role of information in M&A deals
- Conducting due diligence
- Certain techniques for effective drafting of M&A agreements
- The roles and responsibilities of management, Boards of Directors and shareholders in connection with transactions