{"id":4128,"date":"2016-04-01T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T14:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:43:30","slug":"legal-intelligencer-kang-mas-attorney-client-privilege-selling-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-kang-mas-attorney-client-privilege-selling-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Intelligencer:  Kang on M&#038;As and Attorney-Client Privilege of Selling Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/edward-t-kang\/\">Edward Kang<\/a>\u2019s<\/strong> March 2016 civil litigation column in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/id=1202753237351\/MampAs-and-AttorneyClient-Privilege-of-Selling-Corporations#ixzz44UNwUBJp\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a><\/strong> and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, he writes on the issue of M&amp;As and Attorney-Client Privilege of Selling Corporations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Courts have long recognized that the attorney-client privilege extends to corporations, as in\u00a0<a href=\"externalcitation:449%20U.S.%20383\">Upjohn v. United States<\/a>, 449 U.S. 383 (1981). Because a corporation can act only through its agents, usually officers, a corporation&#8217;s attorney-client privilege generally applies to communications between the corporation&#8217;s authorized agents and counsel. As the U.S. Supreme Court explained in Upjohn, however, it is the corporation that holds the corporate attorney-client privilege, not individual officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-kang-mas-attorney-client-privilege-selling-corporations\/#more-4128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Edward Kang\u2019s March 2016 civil litigation column in The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, he writes on the issue of M&amp;As and Attorney-Client Privilege of Selling Corporations. Courts have long recognized that the attorney-client privilege extends to corporations, as in\u00a0Upjohn v. United States, 449 U.S. 383 (1981). 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