Oct 24, 2018 How to buy a bank: Part 2 By Cyrus Pocha Part 2: Consolidation If I lend you a fiver I trust you will pay me back, and it stops there. But if I lend you my monthly salary, I...
Oct 03, 2018 Big MAC? Whopper? Or just a Nothing Burger? By Paul Humphreys Sebastian Fain Matthew Herman Peter Lyons +1 more... Show less When asked by clients to explain what constitutes a “Material Adverse Change”, M&A practitioners, after giving a brief synopsis of the...
Oct 02, 2018 Trends in International Capital Markets By David Ludwick Virginia Flower In an article published last month by LexisNexis, our international capital markets team gives an overview of recent trends experienced...
Oct 02, 2018 Successful dealmaking in uncertain times By Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Even by recent standards, 2018 has been a remarkable year for M&A. Figures from Thomson Reuters reveal that dealmaking in the first six...
Oct 02, 2018 Family investors: a new class of global investors By Heiko Jander-Mcalister Not so long ago, family offices were dismissed as passive investors with low-profile portfolios comprising apartment buildings, shares...
Oct 02, 2018 Global protectionist wave shows no signs of slowing down By Paul Seppi While global M&A activity has reached record levels lately, the Financial Times has reported that $540bn of proposed acquisitions had...
Oct 02, 2018 How to buy a bank: Part 1 By Cyrus Pocha Part 1: Leverage There is an increase in private equity buying banks and other highly regulated businesses such as insurers and payment...
Oct 02, 2018 Xerox/Fuji: Don’t Copy This By Marissa Yu Matthew Herman In April, a New York court temporarily blocked the proposed $6.1 billion merger between Xerox Corporation (Xerox) and Fujifilm Holdings...
Oct 02, 2018 Freshfields' Q3 2018 M&A monitor By Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Technology deals buck Q3 trend Total deal values fell from $1tn in Q2 to $682bn in Q3, although M&A through the first three...
Oct 02, 2018 Time is running out for LIBOR By Aled Batey In a speech on 12 July 2018, the Chief Executive of the FCA Andrew Bailey said that “…the discontinuation of LIBOR should not be...