Corporate Transaction Litigation

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Skinner</h3> <h6 class="itelic"><p>Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting,<br /> University of Chicago Booth School of Business</p> </h6> <div class="page-main"> <div class="flexgrid"> <div class="flexgrid-col flexgrid-col-primary flexgrid-col-2of3"> <div class="section-row"> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="grid-col col-spaced-content"> <div class="user-content "> <div class="blue-body"> <p>Douglas Skinner is a leading authority on financial reporting and disclosure, capital markets, corporate finance, and valuation. An experienced expert witness, Professor Skinner has testified on numerous corporate finance–related matters, both in deposition and at trial. He has evaluated loss causation, damages, market efficiency, and price impact.</p> </div> <div class="text-faded"> <p>In his research, Professor Skinner addresses a range of subjects related to corporate finance, financial accounting, and corporate governance, including the capital market effects of corporate disclosures and financial reporting. He has assessed various factors that affect corporate disclosure choices, the role that manager incentives play in financial reporting, and the determinants of firms’ payout policies.</p> <p>Professor Skinner’s articles have appeared in leading accounting and finance journals, including the <em>Accounting Review</em>, the <em>Journal of Finance</em>, and the <em>Journal of Financial Economics</em>. He coedits the <em>Journal of Accounting Research</em> and was previously coeditor of the <em>Journal of Accounting and Economics</em>. He has received several best paper awards, including the Jensen Prize from the <em>Journal of Financial Economics</em> and the BlackRock Prize from the <em>Review of Accounting Studies</em>. His research has also been cited in the <em>New York Times</em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, and the <em>Financial Times</em>.</p> <p>Honored multiple times for excellence in teaching, Professor Skinner teaches graduate (M.B.A. and Ph.D.) courses that cover financial accounting, managerial (cost) accounting, financial statement analysis, corporate finance, and empirical methods in accounting research.</p> <p>Professor Skinner is a professorial fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Before joining the University of Chicago, he served for over a decade as the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.</p> <p>Professor Skinner is an independent trustee of and audit committee chair for Harbor Funds, Harbor Funds II, and Harbor ETF Trust, an actively managed mutual fund and exchange traded fund (ETF) complex.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="bottom-action mt-3"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/experts/douglas-skinner/" class="btn-primary btn grd-btn">View Bio</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-block expert-container-hidden "> <h2 class="desktop-show">Our extensive network includes top experts from academia and industry.<div class="title-bottom-text dark"></div> </h2> <div class="large-para"> <h3 class="sec-font bold">Frederick G. Van Zijl</h3> <h6 class="itelic"><p>President, RVZ Strategic Advisors;<br /> Former Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group;<br /> Former Head of U.S. Leveraged Finance, Barclays Capital;<br /> Former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs</p> </h6> <div class="page-main"> <div class="flexgrid"> <div class="flexgrid-col flexgrid-col-primary flexgrid-col-2of3"> <div class="section-row"> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="grid-col col-spaced-content"> <div class="user-content "> <div class="blue-body"> <p>Rick Van Zijl has more than thirty-five years of experience as a financial services professional. Mr. Van Zijl has held senior roles at leading global investment banks, where he led high-profile transactions. He also served as an investor at a major hedge fund. As an expert witness, he has addressed valuation, access to capital markets, solvency, and leveraged finance, among other issues. His industry experience includes financial institutions, industrials, media, quick service restaurants (QSR), retail, and telecommunications.</p> </div> <div class="text-faded"> <p>Mr. Van Zijl has arranged and invested in customized debt and equity structures to finance buyouts, growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and restructurings. He has underwritten scores of debt capital market transactions, and has been involved in all stages of debt issuance, including origination, structuring, and syndication. Mr. Van Zijl has deep experience with leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, bridge financing, and mezzanine and distressed debt. His experience includes leading the debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing for the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and working on such notable restructuring transactions as Xerox and Solectron.</p> <p>As president of RVZ Strategic Advisors, Mr. Van Zijl consults on topics related to private equity and credit financings in the insurance, lease finance, and asset management industries. Previously, as a managing director at Fortress Investment Group, he evaluated and underwrote investment opportunities in distressed assets, in the specialty finance, media, and infrastructure industries.</p> <p>Mr. Van Zijl founded and headed the leveraged finance business at Barclays Capital, where he oversaw all noninvestment-grade credit origination and private equity and credit investing in the United States. In that role, he also chaired the firm’s Americas Credit Committee and served on the Americas Investment Banking and Global Investment Committees. Before joining Barclays, Mr. Van Zijl was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, with responsibility for all due diligence, structuring, underwriting, and approval processes for subject transactions in the leveraged finance group.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="grid-col grid-col-1of1"> <div class="grid-col-inner"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="bottom-action mt-3"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/experts/frederick-van-zijl/" class="btn-primary btn grd-btn">View Bio</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-block expert-container-hidden "> <h2 class="desktop-show">Our extensive network includes top experts from academia and industry.<div class="title-bottom-text dark"></div> </h2> <div class="large-para"> <h3 class="sec-font bold">Amy P. 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She has assessed questions of valuation, solvency, and factors contributing to financial distress in the context of corporate bankruptcy.</p> <p>As a result of her research, Professor Hutton was named to the Congressional Review Board, opining on the Security Industry Association’s “best practices for equity research.” She won the American Accounting Association’s inaugural Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award for her co-authored article “Causes and Consequences of Earnings Management: An Analysis of Firms Subject to Enforcement Actions by the SEC.”</p> <p>Professor Hutton was an editor for the <em>Accounting Review</em> and continues to serve as a referee for several leading peer-reviewed accounting and finance journals. She has held faculty appointments at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Harvard Business School.</p> </div> </div> <div class="bottom-action mt-3"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/experts/amy-hutton/" class="btn-primary btn grd-btn">View Bio</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-block expert-container-hidden "> <h2 class="desktop-show">Our extensive network includes top experts from academia and industry.<div class="title-bottom-text dark"></div> </h2> <div class="large-para"> <h3 class="sec-font bold">John C. Coates</h3> <h6 class="itelic"><p>John F. Cogan Jr. Professor of Law and Economics,<br /> Research Director, Center on the Legal Profession,<br /> Harvard Law School;<br /> Former General Counsel and Acting Director,<br /> Division of Corporation Finance,<br /> Securities and Exchange Commission;<br /> Senior Advisor, Cornerstone Research</p> </h6> <div class="page-main"> <div class="flexgrid"> <div class="flexgrid-col flexgrid-col-primary flexgrid-col-2of3"> <div class="section-row"> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="grid-col col-spaced-content"> <div class="user-content "> <div class="blue-body"> <p>John Coates is a nationally recognized expert in corporate transactions, corporate control and governance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial institutions, and securities. He has served as General Counsel and Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and also as a member of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee.</p> </div> <div class="text-faded"> <p>Professor Coates has testified at trial and deposition in numerous matters, including before the Delaware Chancery Court; state courts in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York; and in U.S. district courts. He has also testified before committees of both chambers of the U.S. Congress.</p> <p>Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Professor Coates was a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he specialized in financial institutions and in M&A. He has provided consulting services to the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, multiple financial regulatory agencies, and the New York Stock Exchange. Professor Coates has also consulted for participants in financial markets, including individuals, public companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, investment banks, commercial banks, and private equity funds. In addition, Professor Coates served as independent consultant for the SEC in the first and the largest of the “Fair Fund” distributions to investors.</p> <p>His research has been published in the <em>Harvard Business Law Review</em>, the <em>Yale Law Journal</em>, the<em> Stanford Law Review</em>, the<em> Journal of International Banking</em>, <em>Finance and Law</em>, and the<em> Journal of Economic Perspectives</em>, among others. 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In addition, Cornerstone Research and our experts have provided services related to valuation issues for public and private companies involved in merger-related disputes.</p> </div> <div class="bottom-action"> </div> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade " id="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-4" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-tab4"> <div class="text-block regular-para"> <p>Our staff and experts have analyzed the customs and practices of due diligence in acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and other transactions.</p> </div> <div class="bottom-action"> </div> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade " id="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-5" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-tab5"> <div class="text-block regular-para"> <p>We have conducted complex valuation analyses of companies, securities, and assets. These have included contingent payments and derivatives, intellectual property, contracts, warrants, and commodities. We have also analyzed the impact of capital structure on firm value. We have assessed the adequacy of consideration or reasonably equivalent value, including direct and indirect benefits exchanged in corporate transactions.</p> <p>We have evaluated fairness opinions and valuations, compared alternative bids, analyzed hedging by various counterparties, and calculated damages arising from corporate transaction litigation. In each case, our staff and affiliated experts have applied appropriate valuation techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulations, discounted cash flow analyses, comparisons of multiples, and analyses of stock market reactions to disclosures.</p> </div> <div class="bottom-action"> </div> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade " id="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-6" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="home-691b3a68-b170-4758-ac21-50208918ea34-tab6"> <div class="text-block regular-para"> <p>In addition to our transaction experience, Cornerstone Research also has experience with regulatory merger review.</p> </div> <div class="bottom-action"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/practices/services/merger-investigations/" class="inline-btn tr-normal-text" target="_blank"><span>Learn More</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="not-print case-studies" id="4"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 title-section text-center mb-md-2"> <h2>Featured Cases</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="case-study-slider-container nav-btn-slider slick-slider-nav-center"> <div class="case-study-slides"> <div class="case-container-block"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/kirkland-lake-gold-securities/" class="full-link"> <span class="sr-only">In Re: Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. 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Consolidated Shareholder Litigation</span> </a> <span class="small-label">Case</span> <div class="large-para"> <p>In re Xerox Corp. Consolidated Shareholder Litigation</p> </div> <div class="regular-para"> After the judge ruled in favor of a temporary injunction in the $6 billion merger injunction case, Xerox announced it would not pursue the deal and... </div> <div class="bottom-action mt-3"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/xerox-corp-consolidated-shareholder-litigation/" class="inline-btn">Learn More</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="case-study-slides"> <div class="case-container-block"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/move-inc-et-al-v-zillow-inc-et-al/" class="full-link"> <span class="sr-only">Move Inc. et al. v. Zillow Inc. et al.</span> </a> <span class="small-label">Case</span> <div class="large-para"> <p>Move Inc. et al. v. 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target="_self"><span>View All</span></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="latest-content-slidercontainer"> <div class="latest-block-slider"> <div class="latest-slides"> <div class="flex-block"> <a class="full-link" href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/reports/appraisal-litigation-in-delawaretrends-in-petitions-and-opinions-20062022/"> <span class="sr-only">Appraisal Litigation in Delaware—Trends in Petitions and Opinions, 2006–2022</span> </a> <span class="small-label">5 April 2023</span> <h3>Appraisal Litigation in Delaware—Trends in Petitions and Opinions, 2006–2022</h3> <div class="small-para"> <p>Court-awarded premiums have also fallen sharply as court rulings have relied more on market evidence and deal price.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="latest-slides"> <div class="flex-block"> <a class="full-link" href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/press-releases/new-cornerstone-research-report-volume-of-2022-delaware-shareholder-appraisal-petitions-returns-to-pre-boom-levels-as-court-decisions-have-made-appraisal-litigation-riskier/"> <span class="sr-only">Volume of 2022 Delaware Shareholder Appraisal Petitions Returns to Pre-Boom Levels as Court Decisions Have Made Appraisal Litigation Riskier</span> </a> <span class="small-label">5 April 2023</span> <h3>Volume of 2022 Delaware Shareholder Appraisal Petitions Returns to Pre-Boom Levels as Court Decisions Have Made Appraisal Litigation Riskier</h3> <div class="small-para"> <p>Court-awarded premiums have also fallen sharply as court rulings have relied more on market evidence and deal price.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="latest-slides"> <div class="flex-block"> <a class="full-link" href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/articles/the-potential-impact-of-covid-19-induced-volatility-on-business-valuation-in-m-a-and-bankruptcy-litigation/"> <span class="sr-only">The Potential Impact of COVID-19-Induced Volatility on Business Valuation in M&A and Bankruptcy Litigation</span> </a> <span class="small-label">19 November 2020</span> <h3>The Potential Impact of COVID-19-Induced Volatility on Business Valuation in M&A and Bankruptcy Litigation</h3> <div class="small-para"> <p>The authors assess the impact of COVID-19-induced volatility on company valuations in this Law360 article.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="latest-slides"> <div class="flex-block"> <a class="full-link" href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/reports/shareholder-litigation-involving-acquisitions-of-public-companies-review-of-2018-ma-litigation/"> <span class="sr-only">Shareholder Litigation Involving Acquisitions of Public Companies—Review of 2018 M&A Litigation</span> </a> <span 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