/www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/business/dealbook/ruling-on-dell-buyout-may-not-be-precedent-some-fear.html">in Dell’s buyout in 2013</a>.</p> 
   <p data-para-count="448" data-total-count="4473">The Yahoo deal, however, is not a sale of the public company. It is an asset sale, in which there is only a shareholder vote if there is a sale of “all” or “substantially all” of the assets of the company. Yahoo is not all of the assets or even “substantially all” – the Alibaba shares being left behind 