ABA Private Target M&A Deal Points Study & Practical Law Partnership

he ABA's Business Law Section M&A Committee's flagship Private Target M&A Deal Points Study is considered the industry's gold standard reference for deal points in private acquisition agreements. Through Practical Law's new partnership with the ABA, select Practical Law forms now contain integrated slides from the study as well as continuously updated Practical Law What's Market Analytics charts and What's Market's trends information. 

This podcast discusses this new partnership, including a sneak peek at the timing of and several new data points to be covered in the soon to be released 2023 version of the study, among Barbara J. Oikle, the Senior Managing Editor of National Corporate and M&A Content at Practical Law and the two Co-Chairs of the study:

• Jessica C. Pearlman, a Partner at K&L Gates, LLP, and Vice Chair of the ABA's Business Law Section's M&A Committee and former Chair of the ABA's Business Law Section's M&A Committee's Market Trends Subcommittee, and
• Tatjana Paterno, a Member at Bass, Berry, & Sims PLC, and Vice Chair of the ABA's Business Law Section's M&A Committee's Market Trends Subcommittee.

To view a toolkit with links to Practical Law forms that have been updated with this integrated information, see Private M&A Forms with Integrated Market Trends Information Toolkit.