Updating Our Understanding of the Role of Lawyers: Lessons From Mastercard
By Scott R. Peppet, February 8, 2012
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This article reviews Mastercard’s legal negotiations regarding the largest antitrust class action on record with Visa in 2003, as well as the structuring of the 2006 Mastercard IPO. By looking to both transactions with the underlying negotiations, Peppet offers some lessons about legal negotiation and the role of lawyers in the modem M&A practice.
