The past several years have emphasised the growing importance of strategic equity solutions as part of corporate finance advisory services for both listed issuers and their controlling shareholders. Strategic equity solutions are a range of equity derivatives products, including capital-raising, equity-linked products, structured share buy-back and share accumulation and disposal products, and hedging and monetisation products. Interestingly, the period of the covid-19 pandemic highlighted the continued demand for sophisticated methods of capital raising, balance sheet management and hedging solutions, all of which utilise strategic equity solutions. That trend continued until the 2022 downturn in global equity markets, which went through a slower cycle in the capital markets side of the business in 2023, but has been on a further upswing since 2024, even if we are experiencing quite a bit of macroeconomic volatility. This 10th edition of the Equity Derivatives volume in the Lexology Panoramic series aims to survey the equity derivatives landscape in key jurisdictions around the world and highlight the critical issues that practitioners and market participants should be aware of. This introduction gives a brief overview of the state of the global market and the primary product classes discussed in this volume.
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