Boston Bar Association Podcast Central

Program Sponsor: Mergers & Acquisitions Committee and Bankruptcy Law Section

M&A and Bankruptcy: Working Together

Please join us to hear Bojan Stoyanov, Huron Consulting Group, and Joe Basile, Weil, Gotshal & Manges discuss how to effect M&A transactions when the target or the seller is a debtor in a bankruptcy proceeding.

In a difficult economic environment, the conventional wisdom is that bankruptcy lawyers will be busy while M&A lawyers will be on the sidelines. On the contrary, financial distress presents excellent acquisition opportunities, and bankruptcy can often be an effective M&A technique. Indeed in the current environment, no M&A professional and no bankruptcy practitioner can afford to be unacquainted with those aspects of the Bankruptcy Code that are relevant to acquisition transactions.

Mergers & Acquisitions Committee Co-Chairs: Mark J. Tarallo and Dimitry S. Herman
Bankruptcy Law Section Co-Chairs: Donald R. Lassman and Adrienne K. Walker.

Program Sponsor: International Intellectual Property Law Committee

Key Word Advertising Litigation in the U.S. & Europe

Keyword advertising is one of the most prevalent forms of advertising on the Internet, with Google, Yahoo and others "selling” keywords that are used to provide advertisement content in response to user searches.  When a company “buys” its competitor's trademark so as to display its advertisement in response to a search of the competitor"s trademark, not surprisingly, litigation can erupt.  John Ward of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics will take a look at the current state of litigation taking place in the U.S. and Europe with respect to this controversial issue.

International Intellectual Property Law Committee Co-Chairs: Kerry L. Timbers and John F. Ward.