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UK Takeover Panel Proposes Narrowing the Scope of Companies Subject to the Takeover Code

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/25/2024

On 24 April 2024, the UK Takeover Panel (the Panel) published Public Consultation Paper 2024/1 (the PCP), which proposes a significant change to the applicability of the UK Takeover Code (the Code), by narrowing the scope of...more

Insights Special Edition: Women’s History Month

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/2/2024

Celebrating Women’s History Month, we present a special edition of our quarterly Insights publication, highlighting the talent and insights of women at Skadden. The issue spotlights their authorship on such topics as the...more

Foreign Direct Investment: Key Recent and Future Developments in Europe and the US

BCLP on 3/27/2024

At a time of significant geopolitical challenges, many jurisdictions are looking at their investment screening regimes to ensure that they can adequately safeguard national security and public order. Within this context,...more

The Informed Board - Winter 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/19/2024

The oversight obligations of boards continue to expand. Recent enforcement actions and new laws in areas such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and supply chains create new challenges for boards, as we explain in this...more

Bermuda Public Companies Update - H2 2023

Conyers on 2/13/2024

This edition of the Conyers Bermuda Public Companies Update summarises significant transactions involving Bermuda companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in the second half of 2023. Global Market Update...more

Europe Increasingly Turns to Special Committees in Transactions Involving a Controlling Shareholder

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/18/2023

A takeover offer from a controlling shareholder presents a challenge to boards of directors who are tasked with protecting minority shareholders, particularly where some of the directors on the board may have relationships or...more

Global M&A Insights: Deal-making predictions for 2024

A&O Shearman on 12/13/2023

Welcome to our year-end edition of M&A Insights, where we preview some of the themes we expect to shape deal-making over the next 12 months. Continued volatility in the debt markets has resulted in another subdued year for...more

The Informed Board - Summer 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/7/2023

Short sellers make their money by publishing information that attacks a company in order to drive down its share price. How can a company prepare? And what should it not do in the face of a short attack? We offer some tips in...more

Norway Bulletin - April 2023

Conyers on 8/3/2023

We are pleased to bring you the Conyers Norway Bulletin for 2023, in which we highlight developments affecting Bermuda-based companies in the Norwegian market over the past year. Compared with global markets, the Oslo...more

Insights – June 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/27/2023

This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the latest trends in shareholder activism, the scrutiny companies are facing over their ESG disclosures and employment considerations for using AI in the workplace, among...more

Ready for Takeover 2.0?

White & Case LLP on 6/20/2023

The German takeover market is declining and has shown clear signs of having been affected by the current economic and geopolitical environment. The number of takeovers and the total offer volume have both fallen...more

European Activism: More Attacks, More Engagement, More ESG Coming in 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/23/2023

For the third year, Skadden’s European M&A practice has worked with Activistmonitor to survey executives from leading European companies and activist investors to assess their expectations for shareholder activism in Europe...more

Mixed Signals: US M&A FY 2022

White & Case LLP on 1/30/2023

Although the record-breaking deal activity of 2021 spilled over into 2022, headwinds in the first quarter developed into a significant slowdown during the rest of 2022, with an expectation of continued slowness as we enter...more

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/14/2022

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

The Basics of P2P Acquisition Financing

White & Case LLP on 12/1/2022

A public-to-private transaction ("P2P") is one in which a publicly listed company is acquired and taken into private ownership. Because they involve changes in ownership of public companies, P2Ps are subject to various...more

IPEM 2022 | Key Takeaways

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/25/2022

After an insightful conference in Cannes, our partners have compiled some of the key takeaways from IPEM 2022. As well as exploring the private equity landscape in the UK, Germany, France and Italy, we also explore the...more

European SPAC & de-SPAC data & statistics roundup - H1 2022

White & Case LLP on 8/15/2022

European SPAC IPO issuance has slowed materially over the first six months of 2022. EU SPACs raised US$1.78 billion in H1 2022, down from the US$5.11 billion secured over the same period last year. EU de-SPAC deal value...more

5 things you need to know about … trends impacting UK public markets in 2022

White & Case LLP on 1/5/2022

2021 has been an exceptional year for the London Corporate team at White & Case, with a strong performance across the practice, including White & Case advising on nearly 50 deals involving publicly listed companies in the UK...more

European SPAC & De-SPAC Data & statistics roundup - September 2021

White & Case LLP on 9/29/2021

The summer vacation period through August saw no new IPOs from European SPAC sponsors, but the market for De-SPAC deals involving European targets remained active. European assets continue to attract interest from US SPAC...more

Financial institutions M&A: Payments

White & Case LLP on 9/24/2021

Financial institutions M&A sector trends: payments — H1 2021 and outlook for H2 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic drove e-commerce to levels never seen before—payment rail, service and solution providers responded with an...more

UK Public Markets Snapshot – ESG Means Business (Part 1) September 2021

Hogan Lovells on 9/15/2021

In Part 1 of our September Public Markets Snapshot, we focus on recent ESG developments affecting UK corporates and their advisers. In Part 2 “what to watch out for”, we’ll summarise key ESG points coming down the track...more

SPACs: Reshaping M&A and IPOs for European Companies

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/22/2021

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), also referred to as “blank check” companies, have reached record numbers in the United States, with 242 SPACs conducting an initial public offering (IPO) on either NYSE or Nasdaq...more

US P2P activity falls, but activity in Europe perseveres

White & Case LLP on 10/26/2020

Private equity-backed takeovers of listed companies in Western Europe have enjoyed several strong years, with deal value rising year on year from 2013 to reach a total of US$38.8 billion in 2019. Volume followed a similar...more

Crisis Prompts European Countries To Step Up Protections Against Foreign M&A

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/21/2020

The coronavirus pandemic has weakened European economies and companies. EU and national governments have expressed concern that foreign investors may opportunistically take advantage of the crisis to acquire domestic...more

European leveraged finance: A bifurcated balancing act: Public-to-private: Private equity on the hunt for new value

White & Case LLP on 2/25/2020

HEADLINES - In 2019, European take-private deals backed by private equity reached €34.5 billion over 31 deals - This is 14 per cent higher than 2018 and more than five times the total deal value seen just five years...more

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