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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 25134" data-attributes="member: 1">A few things I found interesting to note this week:1. "<a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/company/ticker/MS%20US%20Equity" target="_blank">Morgan Stanley</a>’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-20/morgan-stanley-to-buy-e-trade-for-13-billion-in-all-stock-deal?sref=OweHtV7D" target="_blank">acquisition</a> of <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/company/ticker/ETFC%20US%20Equity" target="_blank">E*Trade Financial Corp.</a> specifically carves out the COVID-19 virus from the scope of the definition of “material adverse effect” (MAE).  This exclusion indicates that the parties have factored risks associated with the global coronavirus crisis into the deal—including the price."<a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysis-morgan-stanley-e-trade-merger-excludes-coronavirus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top" target="_blank">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysis-morgan-stanley-e-trade-merger-excludes-coronavirus?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top</a>Blackstone have also made reference to the coronavirus in their recent annual filing.2. Activist fund Elliot Management has acquired a 5% stake in Twitter and is pushing for the replacement of Jack Dorsey as CEO: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/02/29/business/29reuters-twitter-elliott.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/02/29/business/29reuters-twitter-elliott.html</a>. Consider what your view is on this - do you think someone can be a good CEO even if they run two companies? What are activist investors and what do they seek to do? Why is their role in the market increasing? Note Matthew Dow has a brilliant article on this within our premium section: <a href="https://classes.thecorporatelawacademy.com/p/tcla-weekly-report/?preview=logged_out" target="_blank">https://classes.thecorporatelawacademy.com/p/tcla-weekly-report/?preview=logged_out</a>.</blockquote>

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