Norman Solberg


Your legal strategist in Japan • Finding Business Results That Work • Our Objective Is Extraordinary, High Value Outcomes

Examples of Client Outcomes

Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Finance & Private Equity
Joint Ventures
Franchising
Contracts

Recent Articles

Poison Pills
Derivatives
Inventions
Spalding Restructured

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Examples of Client Outcomes

Takeover Defense

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Worked on both sides of many purchases and sales of large and small companies in different industries.

Hostile tender offers and friendly deals throughout the world.

Related work on defensive issues including board control strategy, issuing securities, raising equity and debt capital, law suits, etc.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

Adoption of the original poison pill anti-takeover mechanism by Household International and the famous defense in Delaware affirming its legality. "One of the ten most important cases of the decade" - American Lawyer. Over 3000 U.S. companies adopted poison pills after this case. Read the story

Directed hostile tender offer and proxy contest by Albert Culver Company to acquire control of a competitor, in which I took charge of legal, financial, public relations and other functions. Leading edge transaction - the first under that State's anti-takeover law. Mine was the highest profit center in the company for that period.

Helped defend a bank's board and management against an attempted takeover of control by a dissident director.

Norman R. Solberg

Solberg International Law Office
Fuji Sogo Law and Accounting Office
(Associated Offices)
Shin Yamamoto Bldg 7F
1-1-25 Dojima, Kita-ku
Osaka 530-0003, Japan
Telephone: (06) 6344-1921
Fax: (06) 6344-1924
E-mail: solberg@gaiben.com
http://www.gaiben.com

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