When rivals talk merger, risks abound: sharing information can prove damaging if deal dies

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Protecting sensitive corporate information during merger negotiations is especially difficult since intra-industry mergers became so popular. Confidentiality agreements are often not enough to protect a company from theft of trade secrets and poaching of key employees by the other party. Accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand LLP was sued by Kroll Associates Inc, the private security firm it sought to acquire, for breaching such an agreement by hiring Kroll employees after the deal failed. Other recommended protective measures include using outside auditors or retiring executives to analyze financial data.

Management, Safety and security measures, Cases, Acquisitions and mergers, Trade secrets, Protection and preservation, Security services industry, Kroll Associates Inc., Business intelligence, Competitive intelligence, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., states

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Pro-choice groups say they are losing the war; late-term bans are falling, but anti-abortion groups are changing the debate

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Pro-life forces have been advancing in the courts vis-a-vis their pro-choice opponents by using a strategy that focuses the debate on questions related to procedures employed in abortions, instead of viability. By forcing the pro-choice groups to spend resources in several of the fifty states to fight partial birth abortion bans enacted by state legislatures, the pro-life movement has achieved a strategic victory. Incongruity among circuit court opinions with respect to legality of various abortion methods is considered by some as a setback for the pro-choice movement.

Political organizations, Abortion & Anti-Abortion Groups, United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Influence, Ohio, Pro-life movement, Abortion, Pro-choice movement, Pro-life groups, Pro-choice groups

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