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Rise in Transatlantic Transactions Puts M&A Deal Terms in Focus

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

Navigating Sanctions in M&A: Seven Questions for Deal Teams to Consider

M&A deal teams face complicated legal issues amidst rapidly changing global sanctions and guidance. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created new headwinds for M&A dealmakers, as a complicated matrix of sanctions and...more

IFLR M&A Report - 2022

The recovery of the M&A market since the early days of the pandemic has been impressive. Even allowing for varying treatment of Covid-19 winners and losers, deal processes for resilient assets (and even for less obviously...more

IFLR M&A Report 2021

If 2020 was the year that COVID-19 precipitated extraordinary government intervention and regulation of our lives, 2021 looks set to be the year that regulatory interventions in M&A precipitate changes to the way that...more

Foreign Investment Controls - Are We Seeing a More Nuanced Approach to Private Equity?

Amid FDI screening regime expansion, deal teams have opportunities to capitalise on newly available exemptions, but must beware novel complexities. US intervention in the proposed acquisition of hotel-software company...more

Private Equity in Japan: With Opportunities Come Continuing Challenges

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

China’s War on Pollution Hits M&A Deal Environment

In recent years, China has taken significant steps in developing its environmental policy. In 2014, China’s Premier Li Keqiang declared a “war on pollution”, which began in earnest in 2017....more

New UK National Security M&A Regime Expected in 2019

In June 2018, the UK adopted new powers to review certain technology related deals on national security grounds, extending the scope and breadth of its control regime to those that concern computing hardware, or quantum...more

New National Security Threat to UK Private Equity Deals

The UK government has assumed an increasingly interventionist approach to foreign takeovers in recent years. In June 2018, the UK adopted new powers to review deals on national security grounds, extending the scope and...more

Can Overseas Bidders Guard Against M&A Risks in An Increasingly Economically Nationalist Europe?

Growing economic nationalism is threatening to impact M&A across Europe, as governments and regulators take an increasing interest in “foreign” acquisitions of nationally important companies. Deal teams have previously...more

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