M&A and D&O Litigation
The M&A and D&O Litigation practice at Sidley represents companies, boards, directors and officers in all aspects of civil litigation, internal investigations and government investigations. We provide an experienced team with both the substantive knowledge and strategic vision to handle cases across the country, including cases involving multiple jurisdictions, expedited discovery and preliminary injunctions. We manage these cases effectively and efficiently, drawing upon our extensive corporate, securities, private equity and regulatory practices.
In the M&A arena, Sidley has extensive experience handling litigation and providing advice concerning all types of challenges to mergers and acquisitions, including advice on fiduciary responsibilities and claims involving proxy disclosures, hostile and competing bidders, troubled deals, shareholder suits, related SEC and/or stock exchange investigations, post-closing adjustments, breach of fiduciary duty actions, appraisal actions and books and records actions.
As for D&O litigation, we have a wide-ranging practice handling all types of litigation involving the duties and responsibilities of directors and officers, including litigation in state or federal court, derivative suits, creditor or trustee claims in bankruptcy, shareholder demand letters and Special Committee investigations.
We have represented boards of directors, officers, audit committees or special committees of Aon, AT&T Corp., Barrett Resources, Inc., CDW, Cintas Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Emerson Radio Corp., Equity Office Properties, FedEx Corporation, First Data Corporation, Florida Power & Light, Fortress Investments, FTD.com, IMC Global, JPMorgan Chase, Kimberly Clark Corporation, Kmart, NTT Communications, Inc., Owens Corning, Sears Roebuck & Company, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., Stone Container Corporation, 3M Corporation, Tribune Corporation, True North Communications, Wallace Computer Services, West Corporation and many other companies with respect to numerous litigations and investigations.
