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...
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When asked by clients to explain what constitutes a “Material Adverse Change”, M&A practitioners, after giving a brief synopsis of the...
In an article published last month by LexisNexis, our international capital markets team gives an overview of recent trends experienced...
Even by recent standards, 2018 has been a remarkable year for M&A. Figures from Thomson Reuters reveal that dealmaking in the first six...
Not so long ago, family offices were dismissed as passive investors with low-profile portfolios comprising apartment buildings, shares...
While global M&A activity has reached record levels lately, the Financial Times has reported that $540bn of proposed acquisitions had...
Part 1: Leverage There is an increase in private equity buying banks and other highly regulated businesses such as insurers and payment...
In April, a New York court temporarily blocked the proposed $6.1 billion merger between Xerox Corporation (Xerox) and Fujifilm Holdings...
Technology deals buck Q3 trend Total deal values fell from $1tn in Q2 to $682bn in Q3, although M&A through the first three...
In a speech on 12 July 2018, the Chief Executive of the FCA Andrew Bailey said that “…the discontinuation of LIBOR should not be...