New Deals for a New Day: In a Changing M&A Landscape, Lawyers Are Getting Creative
M&A lawyers are being forced to innovate in order to overcome a new slew of hurdles and meet clients' expectations.
March 27, 2020 at 05:00 AM
12 minute read
Editor's note: This article is from The American Lawyer's April issue.
Last year's move to take Dun & Bradstreet private was not your grandfather's deal.
In 2018, D&B, which sells business information and reported about $1.7 billion in revenue in its last full year as a public company, parted ways with its CEO and brought in consultants from McKinsey & Co. in search of a boost. With its stock in the $120s, it was in talks with several private equity firms about taking a minority stake. And then Chinh Chu came along.
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