The UK government is considering steps to make the regime more business-friendly, while maintaining and refining essential national security protections.
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA), the UK’s first...more
More US buyers — and more buyer-friendly deal terms — are entering the seller-friendly UK market, although the picture is increasingly nuanced.
Whilst global M&A deal volumes have dipped at the start of Q1 2023, UK-bound...more
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
Drawing on Latham’s Sixth Private M&A Market Study, we explore trends and developments in consideration mechanics and deal conditionality.
Uncertainty has been a significant market factor in 2019....more
Companies must mitigate risks to antitrust privilege posed by cross-border megadeals and increased regulatory demand for documentation.
A strong M&A market has driven a high volume of megadeals across the globe in recent...more
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As management terms converge, deal teams must still navigate cross-border differences in ratchets, put and call options, and management warranties.
French and UK private equity firms are increasingly looking across the...more
Firms targeting assets divested by conglomerates still face obstacles, though barriers to PE investment in Japan are gradually falling.
Many hurdles that traditionally challenged private equity firms looking to invest in...more
9/30/2019
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Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (TCTA 2018)
Ten years ago, a PE investment in a European bank would have been a rare occurrence. However, more recently, PE firms have deployed capital in the banking sector, encouraged by changing regulatory perceptions of PE bidders....more
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in June 2016, coupled with the election of Donald Trump as US president in November 2016, gave dealmakers plenty of pause for thought last year – but ultimately did little to...more