Publications

• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 10
  July 2025
  Erik J. Andrén
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  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Gordon Moodie
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Grace Huang
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• Practising Law Institute: Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook
  21 April 2025
  Practising Law Institute
  Megan K. Arrogante
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  Dominic Blaxill
  ,
  Jan Buschmann
  ,
  Matthew Dickman
  ,
  E. Drew Dutton
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  David Grosgold
  ,
  Andrew G. Jamieson
  ,
  Satish M. Kini
  ,
  Jonathan F. Lewis
  ,
  Marilyn A. Lion
  ,
  Gregory J. Lyons
  ,
  Kristen A. Matthews
  ,
  Timothy McIver
  ,
  Edwin Northover
  ,
  Matthew B. Parelman
  ,
  Marc Ponchione
  ,
  Nicholas F. Potter
  ,
  Daniel Priest
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeff Robins
  ,
  Peter F.G. Schuur
  ,
  Paulina Stanfel
  ,
  Dr. Clare Swirski
  ,
  Richard Ward
  ,
  Sam Whitaker
  ,
  Olivia Coral Daniels
  ,
  Alexandra Grady
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  Laura Jackson
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  Katie Power
  ,
  Thomas M. Santella
  ,
  Niusha Tavassoli
  ,
  Alexander R. Cochran
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 9
  February 2025
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Gordon Moodie
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• MarketCheck – Summer 2024
  August 2024
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Jyotin Hamid
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Stephen Jordan
  ,
  Maurizio Levi-Minzi
  ,
  Timothy McIver
  ,
  Frank Mitchell
  ,
  Maura Kathleen Monaghan
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Zachary H. Saltzman
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Matthew J. Sorensen
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Anne-Mette Heemsoth
  ,
  Tricia Bozyk Sherno
  ,
  Jacob W. Stahl
  ,
  Jillian Mulroy Wright
  ,
  Ilya Balabanovsky
  ,
  Marisa Demko
  ,
  Rekha Korlipara Kreider
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 8
  July 2024
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• Law360: Tiny Tweaks To Bank Merger Forms May Have Big Impact
  20 May 2024
  Law360
  Gregory J. Lyons
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  Gregory V. Gooding
• Delaware Supreme Court Holds MFW Inapplicable Based on Banker Conflict Disclosure Deficiencies
  3 May 2024
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Matthew E. Kaplan
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  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• Delaware Supreme Court Holds Entire Fairness Applicable to All Conflicted Controller Transactions
  5 April 2024
  Susan Reagan Gittes
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
• The FDIC’s Proposed Bank Merger Guidance: Proposing a Perilous Path for Large Bank (and Nonbank) Merger Transactions
  27 March 2024
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Ted Hassi
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Matthew E. Kaplan
  ,
  Gregory J. Lyons
  ,
  Benjamin P. Collins-Wood
  ,
  Adam C. Saunders
• Delaware Court of Chancery Orders Rescission of Compensation Award
  1 February 2024
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Jonathan F. Lewis
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• OCC Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Bank Mergers
  1 February 2024
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Ted Hassi
  ,
  Matthew E. Kaplan
  ,
  Gregory J. Lyons
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 7
  16 January 2024
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• Delaware Court Partially Upholds, Partially Invalidates Advance Notice Bylaws
  3 January 2024
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Eric T. Juergens
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  Maeve O'Connor
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  William D. Regner
  ,
  Steven J. Slutzky
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
• Asset Management M&A: Current Trends and Key Legal Considerations
  November 2023
  Geoffrey P. Burgess
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  Matthew Dickman
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  William D. Regner
  ,
  Edoardo Troina
• Private Equity Report Fall 2023, Vol 23, No 3
  November 2023
  Dominic Blaxill
  ,
  Michael Bolotin
  ,
  Geoffrey P. Burgess
  ,
  Charu A. Chandrasekhar
  ,
  Matthew Dickman
  ,
  Avi Gesser
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Sally Bergmann Hardesty
  ,
  Eric T. Juergens
  ,
  Frank Mitchell
  ,
  Brett M. Novick
  ,
  Benjamin R. Pedersen
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Edward M. Rishty
  ,
  Michael Schaper
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  Kristin A. Snyder
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Ramya S. Tiller
  ,
  Robert T. Dura
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Stuart Hammer
  ,
  Sarah Wolf
  ,
  Victoria G. J. Brown
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  Adam Silverwood
  ,
  Edoardo Troina
• Westlaw Today: Delaware holds target cannot recover lost-premium damages
  7 November 2023
  Westlaw Today
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
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  William D. Regner
• Delaware Holds Target Cannot Recover Lost-Premium Damages
  2 November 2023
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• Harvard Forum on Corporate Governance: Special Committee Report
  28 August 2023
  Harvard Forum on Corporate Governance
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
• Law360: Del. Ruling May Signal New Era Of Board Accountability
  15 August 2023
  Law360
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• 2023 Proxy Season in Review
  1 August 2023
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Eric T. Juergens
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  Matthew E. Kaplan
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Marisa Demko
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 6
  July 2023
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• Delaware Clarifies Standard for Reviewing Board Interference with Election Contests
  11 July 2023
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• CLS Blue Sky Blog: Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the Mindbody Problem
  22 March 2023
  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
• The Mindbody Problem
  17 March 2023
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 5
  January 2023
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
  ,
  Matthew Ryan
• Delaware Court of Chancery Allows Caremark Claim
  26 January 2023
  Susan Reagan Gittes
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
• Another SPAC Merger Case Draws Entire Fairness Review
  20 January 2023
  Christopher Anthony
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  Spencer K. Gilbert
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  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
• Private Equity Report Fall 2022, Vol 22, No 3
  November 2022
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Sally Bergmann Hardesty
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  Michael Bolotin
  ,
  Erin Cleary
  ,
  Matthew Dickman
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Mark P. Goodman
  ,
  Mark Johnson
  ,
  Henry Lebowitz
  ,
  Maurizio Levi-Minzi
  ,
  Maura Kathleen Monaghan
  ,
  Kevin Rinker
  ,
  Paul D. Rubin
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  Scott B. Selinger
  ,
  Ramya S. Tiller
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Hannah R. Levine
  ,
  Keith J. Slattery
  ,
  Sergio Torres
  ,
  Dominique Trudelle
  ,
  Hadel Alfagir
  ,
  David N. Simpser
• Your Contract Can Only Be Amended in Writing? Not So Fast.
  November 2022
  Gregory V. Gooding
• Cautionary Tale from Delaware: Restrictive Covenants Binding Sellers Must Be Narrowly Tailored
  27 October 2022
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Emily F. Huang
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  Maeve O'Connor
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  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Caitlin Gibson
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 4
  August 2022
  Andrew L. Bab
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
  ,
  Erik J. Andrén
• CLS Blue Sky Blog: Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses SEC’s Proposed SPAC Rules and Investment Banks
  2 May 2022
  CLS Blue Sky Blog
  Christopher Anthony
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  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
• The Proposed SPAC Rules and Their Impact on Investment Banks
  27 April 2022
  Christopher Anthony
  ,
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Peter J. Loughran
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Steven J. Slutzky
• Harvard Forum on Corporate Governance: Special Committee Report
  19 March 2022
  Harvard Forum on Corporate Governance
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 3
  February 2022
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
• Delaware Court Holds de-SPAC Transaction Subject to Entire Fairness
  14 January 2022
  Christopher Anthony
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  Gregory V. Gooding
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  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Zachary H. Saltzman
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
• Private Equity Report Fall 2021, Vol 21, No 3
  November 2021
  Ted Hassi
  ,
  Timothy McIver
  ,
  Michael Schaper
  ,
  Erica S. Weisgerber
  ,
  Anne-Mette Heemsoth
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Uri Herzberg
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Zachary H. Saltzman
  ,
  David J. Hotelling
  ,
  Natascha Born
  ,
  Jonathan Adler
  ,
  Geoffrey Kittredge
  ,
  Ina Popova
  ,
  Patrick Taylor
  ,
  Benjamin Teo
• Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report Issue 2
  September 2021
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Elliot Greenfield
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
• Private Equity Report Spring 2021, Vol 21, No 1
  May 2021
  Christopher Anthony
  ,
  Paul S. Bird
  ,
  E. Raman Bet-Mansour
  ,
  Geoffrey P. Burgess
  ,
  Alexander R. Cochran
  ,
  E. Drew Dutton
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  David Grosgold
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Uri Herzberg
  ,
  Eric T. Juergens
  ,
  Robert B. Kaplan
  ,
  Marilyn A. Lion
  ,
  Edwin Northover
  ,
  Marc Ponchione
  ,
  Nicholas F. Potter
  ,
  Julie M. Riewe
  ,
  Samantha J. Rowe
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  James C. Scoville
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Scott B. Selinger
  ,
  Steven J. Slutzky
  ,
  Patricia Volhard
  ,
  Matthew Dickman
  ,
  Jin-Hyuk Jang
  ,
  Andrew G. Jamieson
  ,
  Dr. Clare Swirski
  ,
  Spencer K. Gilbert
  ,
  Matthew B. Parelman
  ,
  Brett M. Novick
• Introducing the Debevoise & Plimpton Special Committee Report
  7 April 2021
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Maeve O'Connor
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
  ,
  Jonathan R. Tuttle
  ,
  Emily F. Huang
• Bloomberg Law: The End of Leveraged Buyouts as We Know Them? Hardly.
  17 February 2021
  Bloomberg Law
  Gregory V. Gooding
• Sponsor Backed PIPEs: COVID-19 and the Race for Liquidity
  22 April 2020
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gary M. Friedman
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Uri Herzberg
  ,
  Jonathan E. Levitsky
  ,
  Sunil William Savkar
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  Shannon Rose Selden
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor
  ,
  Steven J. Slutzky
• NYSE Provides Temporary Relief from Certain Shareholder Approval Rules
  10 April 2020
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Morgan J. Hayes
  ,
  Eric T. Juergens
  ,
  Matthew E. Kaplan
  ,
  Peter J. Loughran
  ,
  Paul M. Rodel
  ,
  Steven J. Slutzky
• Rethinking Poison Pills, Again
  9 April 2020
  Andrew L. Bab
  ,
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Sergio Torres
• Projecting Performance in the Age of COVID-19
  3 April 2020
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Matthew E. Kaplan
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
• Present Tense: Allocating the Evolving Risk of COVID-19 in M&A Transactions
  30 March 2020
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  William D. Regner
  ,
  Kevin Rinker
  ,
  Jeffrey J. Rosen
• Preferred Equity Redemption Rights: “The Bitter and the Sweet”
  November 2021
  Gregory V. Gooding
  ,
  Uri Herzberg
  ,
  Kevin M. Schmidt
  ,
  Katherine Durnan Taylor