Minnesota Corporate Acquisitions Trigger Interest in Change in Control Provisions
News that Arctic Cat is to be acquired by Textron, Inc. is the latest of a number of acquisitions of Minnesota-based companies, including the recently concluded purchase of St. Jude Medical by Abbott Laboratories and the still-pending acquisition of Valspar by Sherwin-Williams. The possibility that these recent transactions may create redundancies may have many Twin […]
Financial Execs Should Consider their U5 in Severance Negotiations
A public radio piece last October about fallout from the Wells Fargo scandal involving unauthorized bank accounts is a telling lesson for any executive in the securities or banking industry. In “Workers Say Wells Fargo Unfairly Scarred Their Careers,” National Public Radio told the story of Jeremy who worked in a Wells Fargo branch in […]