George T. Conway III

Wachtell responds to Bebchuk and Jackson’s Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill

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In a recent paper, Professors Lucian Bebchuk and Robert Jackson have extended Professor Bebchuk’s extreme and eccentric campaign against director-centric governance into a new realm—that of the Constitution of the United States. They claim that “serious questions” exist about …

Federal District Court Expresses Skepticism That Dodd-Frank Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provision Overturns Morrison in Government Enforcement Actions

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Federal District Court Expresses Skepticism That Dodd-Frank Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction Provision Overturns Morrison in Government Enforcement Actions

In a memo we wrote on the day the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, we discussed a provision in that law seemingly intended …

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Applying Morrison v. National Australia Bank, the Supreme Court Rejects Extraterritorial Application of the Alien Tort Statute

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Editors Note:  The author, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz argued the Morrison case for the defendants in the Supreme Court.

Just as it extinguished class-action litigation tourism under the Securities Exchange Act three years ago in Morrison …

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Wachtell Discusses the Supreme Court’s Decision in Amgen

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A divided Supreme Court ruled on February 27th that proof of materiality is not a prerequisite to certification of a Rule 10b-5 securities fraud class action. Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, No. 11-1085 (Feb. 27, …