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2022 Annual M&A/PE Review and 2023 Forecast

After a record-breaking 2021, deal activity in 2022 dropped by 37%, its largest year-over-year decline since 2001. Facing all the 2022 headwinds, including a difficult and uncertain financing market, the Ukraine war,...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Emerging Developments in Corporate Governance, Impact of COVID-19, and...

The enduring COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact corporate governance practices and trends in 2021, while other notable developments, including a surge in shareholder proposals, changes to the proxy rules, and increased...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Superannuation Funds Take Center Stage in Australian Take-Privates—and Will...

2021 was the year in which superannuation funds took center stage in Australian take-private transactions. In what has been a record year for Australian M&A activity, the weight of money rolling into Australian superannuation...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: 2021 Shareholder Activism Highlights

"Anti" M&A Activism  While the absolute number of companies publicly facing activist demands regarding M&A transactions decreased in 2021 vs. 2020, M&A activism represented an increased share of overall economic demands of...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: FDI Regimes Continue to Expand and Increase Scrutiny of Transactions...

China  China has increased its efforts to scrutinize global transactions that may implicate national security concerns using its foreign investment security review ("FISR") process....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Crafting Divestiture Agreements in the Context of Merger Investigations

Antitrust scrutiny of M&A remained high during 2021, and merging parties continued to make follow-on divestitures designed to obtain antitrust clearance for their main transaction....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Trends in European Public M&A

Europe saw a major increase in public M&A activity in 2021, fueled by cheap money and optimism as economies started to emerge from the worst effects of the pandemic. In particular, PE purchasers with dry powder to deploy and...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Transactional Perspectives on 2022

What are the trends, risks, and opportunities in 2022?  As dealmakers recover from a record-breaking 2021, we expect another busy year in 2022. While risks in the financing market, the tightening of the regulatory...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: New Data Privacy Law in China

China passed its new Data Security Law ("DSL") in June 2021 and its new Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL") in August 2021. Both new laws impact every business operating in or doing business with China, coupling...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Until Enacted or Withdrawn, Proposed U.S. Tax Reform Continues to Have an...

Since early 2021, Congress has been working on legislation that would alter the U.S. tax laws and potentially have a significant impact on M&A and private equity transactions....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: SPAC Year in Review and 2022 Outlook

IPOs for special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs") got off to a blistering start in 2021, with more IPOs closing in the first quarter than in all of 2020 (which had been the most active year for SPAC IPOs in history)....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Key Considerations in Carve-Out Transactions

As global M&A activity reached record highs this year, so too did the market's appetite for carve-out transactions. A carve-out transaction is the sale of a subsidiary, division, or other part of a larger business enterprise....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Overview and the Role of P3s

On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed into law a long-awaited $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill titled the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ("IIJA"). The IIJA is touted as a first step in fixing the...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast - The ESG Surge Continues: Focus on Europe

The focus on ESG across the business spectrum ramped up over the course of 2021, surpassing several milestones along the way and resulting in a surge of regulatory changes and new initiatives by the end of the year....more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast

TRANSACTIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON 2022 - What are the trends, risks, and opportunities in 2022? As dealmakers recover from a record-breaking 2021, we expect another busy year in 2022. While risks in the financing market,...more

2020 Transactions Year in Review

2020 took uncertainty to new heights. Deals came to an abrupt halt in Q2 as corporates focused on preserving cash and stabilizing their businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Private equity firms looked for...more

2017 Annual Private Equity Review

A MESSAGE FROM OUR GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY PRACTICE LEADERS - Despite the continued downward trend following record levels in 2015, 2017 was the fourth-strongest annual period in the history of dealmaking on a global basis....more

Institutional Investor Shareholdings Come Under European Commission Scrutiny

The Situation: A recent study examining common corporate shareholdings in the United States argues that the holding of even minority stakes in rival companies by institutional investors affects competition. The European...more

UK Regulator Examines Scope of Securities Laws, Warns of Initial Coin Offering Risks

The Situation: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has released a statement on initial coin offerings. It focuses the circumstances in which an ICO might fall within the scope of the FCA's current regulatory boundaries as well...more

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