Albert H. Choi

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Deal Protection Devices
Albert H. Choi
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

I would like to thank workshop participants at the law schools of Columbia University, University of Michigan, and University of Southern California; conference participants at the 2018 Trans-Pacific Business Law Conference and the 2020 Winter Deals Conference; and particularly Dhruv Aggarwal, Adam Badawi, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Joel Friedlander, Jeff Gordon, Michael Knoll, Vice Chancellor Travis Laster, Brian Quinn, and Bob Scott for many helpful comments and suggestions. Comments are welcome to alchoi@umich.edu.

On April 12, 2018, two wholesale office supply companies, Genuine Parts Corporation (GPC) and Essendant, Inc., agreed to combine their office supply businesses in order to better compete against e-commerce sellers, such as Amazon.com, Inc.