Mergers Litigation

Mergers Litigation is a specialized domain of corporate litigation that focuses on legal disputes arising from the formation, negotiation, execution, or regulatory approval of merger and acquisition transactions, distinguished by its concern with fiduciary duties, disclosure requirements, and transactional fairness in the context of corporate combinations.

Publications

1.9K

Citations

108

Authors

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Corporate Litigation

Children

Cross-border Merger LitigationDerivative Suits In MergersDisclosure LitigationDisclosure-only SettlementsHostile Takeover Defense LitigationMaterial Adverse Effect ClausesMerger Agreement LitigationMerger Arbitrage LitigationMerger Challenge StandardsMerger Termination Disputes

Publications

Bureaucracy and Politics in FTC Merger Challenges

Malcolm B. Coate, Richard Higgins · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1990 · 110 citations

Law, Administrative Law, Public Administration +12

The Wealth Effects of Litigation by Targets: Do Interests Diverge in a Merge?

Gregg A. Jarrell · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1985 · 99 citations

Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Litigation +7

Shareholder litigation in mergers and acquisitions

C. N. V. Krishnan, Ronald W. Masulis, Randall S. Thomas et al. · Journal of Corporate Finance · 2012 · 91 citations

Law, Corporate Law, Strategic Management +12

The Competitive Effects of Mergers: Stock Market Evidence from the U.S. Steel Dissolution Suit

George L. Mullin, Joseph C. Mullin, Wallace P. Mullin · The RAND Journal of Economics · 1995 · 79 citations

Business, Business Economics, Antitrust Law +16

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

Herbert Hovenkamp · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2018 · 76 citations · Full text

Law, Competition Law, Labor Law +15

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Authors

108

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Randall S. Thomas
Vanderbilt University, United States
6 publications · 177 citations
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Malcolm B. Coate
Federal Trade Commission, United States
5 publications · 175 citations
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C. N. V. Krishnan
Case Western Reserve University, United States
4 publications · 143 citations
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Steven Davidoff Solomon
University of California, Berkeley, United States
4 publications · 59 citations
4
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Matthew D. Cain
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
4 publications · 64 citations
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Institutions

1–8 of 76

Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 17 publications · 429 citations
12
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The Journal of Law and Economics
JLE · 5 publications · 265 citations
5
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The Antitrust Bulletin
3 publications · 72 citations
3
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Harvard Law Review
2 publications · 35 citations
2
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Journal of Corporate Finance
2 publications · 104 citations
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