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Antitrust in focus March 2024

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This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Thomas Masterman, partner based in London, is our editor this month. He has selected: Out now: our latest global...more

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Antitrust scrutiny of private equity deals intensifies

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Traditionally, private equity firms were seen as benign investors from an antitrust perspective. This is changing. In the past 12 months, PE-funded acquisitions have faced progressively more rigorous scrutiny by antitrust...more

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Liability Management Exercises: A Transatlantic Perspective

Over recent years, a prolonged period of low interest rates, together with a competitive financing market, has resulted in greater leverage and control for private companies (and their sponsors) when it comes to negotiating...more

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2023 Global Private Equity Outlook

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Methodology - At the beginning of the third quarter of 2022, Mergermarket, on behalf of Dechert LLP, surveyed 100 senior-level executives at private equity (PE) firms based in North America (45%), Europe, the Middle East...more

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Direct Lending Goes Large

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PE deal teams can increasingly access direct lending for large, cross-border buyouts but regulatory and structuring challenges across jurisdictions remain. Direct lending has long been a feature of the debt market, and...more

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PE Goes to Hollywood

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The film, television, and digital content production industries are ripe for PE investment, thanks to shifting revenue structures and European quotas. The extraordinary growth of entertainment streaming platforms over...more

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Global PE activity slows in Q1 following blockbuster year

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Private equity dealmaking was slow to pick up the pace in Q1, yet activity remained in line with pre-pandemic levels - Global PE activity in 2021 struck a new record, with US$2.2 trillion in deals, almost doubling 2020's...more

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Pandemic powers European infrastructure M&A

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Soaring demand for digital infrastructure, transportation and social assets has generated landmark deals so far this year - While increasing digitization has been gathering pace over the past decade, the COVID-19 pandemic...more

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ESG in European Private Equity: The Effects of COVID-19

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Increasing interest in ESG issues presents an opportunity for sponsors to re-evaluate their existing ESG strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present unprecedented challenges for private equity firms and their...more

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Private Equity Comment

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This edition of Private Equity Comment covers Brexit and the outlook for UK funds; the consultation on the UK as a jurisdiction for intermediate holding companies; the market’s viewpoint on COVID-19; the Chancellor’s cuts to...more

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

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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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4 Key Reasons Why European P2P Deals Fail – and How Private Equity Deal Teams Can Avoid Them

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Adherence to secrecy, pre-announcement preparations, realistic expectations-setting, and strategic plans for taking control are keys to P2P deal success. The deal market has seen a resurgence in public to private (P2P)...more

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Growth Of Large-Cap Consortium Bids Tests Popularity Of Proprietary Bids - But What Are the Challenges for Private Equity?

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Consortium (or “club”) deals involving PE firms have become a common feature of the deal market throughout 2018, with sponsors teaming up with each other or with strategic partners to buy large-cap assets. To the start of...more

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Opportunities and Challenges for Private Equity Investment in the Insurance Sector

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Recent private equity investments in high-profile deals, such as Bain Capital’s acquisition of esure and Apollo’s acquisition of Aspen Insurance, have brought European insurance sector deal values to record highs. Regulatory...more

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The Liquidity Crunch Spurs Creative PE Deal Financing in the US

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Since the 2008 financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve and other central banks in Europe have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial markets. Notwithstanding the amounts injected, a liquidity crunch in 2016 is...more

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