On May 5, Jayne Juvan and Chris Hewitt spoke at The 5th Annual Midwestern M&A/Private Equity Forum in Columbus, Ohio. The Forum is the premier gathering of mid-market deals professionals throughout the region, imparting timely advice on current trends and developments impacting deals in the current calendar year.

Jayne and Chris contributed their insights to two panel discussions. In the first, they discussed risk mitigation and new developments in deal defense, offering essential updates on representation and warranty insurance (RWI) and sharing lessons learned from recent deals on liability and loss. In their second panel discussion, Jayne and Chris explored shareholder activism and managing a hostile takeover response, including new strategies for businesses to deploy in an era of increasingly high-profile activist headlines.