Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
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Podcast - Navigating M&A Due Diligence: Safeguarding Security Clearances
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Podcast: Key Changes in Finalized Antitrust Merger Guidelines – Diagnosing Health Care
The Changing Landscape of State AG Antitrust Enforcement — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Public M&A Day in Frankfurt
Fierce Competition Podcast | Takeaways From the Illumina-Grail Merger Challenge Saga
Hospital M&A Trends & Strategic Considerations for 2024
Hunting Outsized Returns with Jason Caplain of Bull City Venture Partners
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M&A Compliance Due Diligence
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - AI Considerations in M&A Transactions and Contract Drafting
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 7: Trans-Pacific Business: Australia and the U.S. - Part 1
Business Better Podcast Episode: Investing in the New Mainstream Economy - A Conversation with Palladium Equity Partners
Podcast - La Prima por Fusión
One IMS: Acquisition Stories | Trial Division of Precise, Inc.
What You Need to Know About the New FTC and DOJ HSR Changes
The post-Brexit Solvency II reform aims for a more competitive and dynamic insurance sector in the UK. The UK government’s proposals to adapt the Solvency II regime more appropriately to the national insurance market have...more
Welcome to this first edition of BCLP’S Competition Collective: Antitrust, Foreign Investment and Trade Insights from around the world. This period was marked by uncertainty – and the harsh realities of the pandemic for many...more
On 26 January, 2021, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) kicked off a virtual conference on EU and UK competition regulation. This article is the first of a three-part series highlighting the major takeaways from each session...more
The U.K. Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), which is on the cusp of becoming an independent merger regulator post-Brexit, is already known for its readiness to investigate global digital deals, issue freezing orders and...more
On November 11, 2020, the UK government proposed a much anticipated National Security and Investment Bill (the Bill or proposed Regulation) before Parliament. The Bill is the result of a series of government papers and legal...more
The Dechert Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) is a quarterly release from Dechert LLP reporting on trends in significant merger control investigations in the United States (U.S.) and European Union (EU). ...more
Although the EU has strict rules that limit the circumstances in which Member States can subsidize companies in the EU, the rest of the world does not. The European Commission considers this difference unfair because it would...more
The EU Foreign Direct Investment Regulation will be in full force from October 11, 2020. We expect it will radically alter the dynamics of foreign investment review in Europe. Any non-EU investor and any EU target company...more
Financial institutions M&A sector trends: consumer finance — H2 2019 and outlook for 2020 - Financial sponsors see opportunities to back new entrants targeting under-serviced customer segments, including gig economy...more
In this episode, Akin Gump international competition and trade partner Davina Garrod and corporate partner Gavin Weir discuss M&A in the U.K., EU, U.S., China and more, its state of health and where it might go in 2020....more
- The covenant-lite share of European institutional loan issuance in 2019 reached 92 per cent - European leveraged loan issuance in 2019 was down slightly on the previous year to €209.1 billion - High yield bond...more
Antitrust regulators in the United States and Europe were very active in the final quarter of 2019. The FTC and DOJ continue to investigate and challenge M&A transactions in a variety of industries. Events of this quarter...more
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published “Guidance on the Functions of the CMA Under the Withdrawal Agreement” (Guidance), which sets out the regulator’s approach to merger and competition cases during...more
Geopolitical uncertainty and escalating trade tensions have combined to add additional layers of complexity and risk to the dealmaking process in recent years. Through this tumultuous period, however, cross-border M&A deal...more
Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more
PE activity in Western Europe may have dipped in 2019 but this is not the full picture. Buyout activity remains impressive, although exits subsided as PE funds focused on purchases instead of sales. Western Europe had a...more
In 2019, a wave of bond-to-bond refinancings, as well as significant bank and term loan-to-bond refinancings, punctuated a strong year for debt financings after a slow first quarter. Throughout last year, debt investors...more
With Brexit now just a few days away, deal makers are brushing up their knowledge of the UK's merger control regime. One notable feature of the system in the UK is the strict stance that the Competition and Markets Authority...more
As we enter the 2020s, we begin the new decade with greater optimism than we had at the start of the previous one. In the U.K., December 2009 ended with negative growth; the government as the owner of the remains of Northern...more
Three recent antitrust merger reviews involving nascent competition demonstrate enforcers are paying close attention to acquisitions by industry leaders of emerging, but early-stage competitors. The US antitrust agencies have...more
There have been significant recent developments in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation of foreign private issuers, (FPIs) including changes that impact the annual report on Form 20-F for fiscal year 2019....more
We set out in the attached Newsletter a number of interesting English court decisions and market developments which have taken place in the first half of 2019 and their impact on M&A transactions. This review looks at these...more
After the extension of the March 29 Brexit deadline to October, Western Europe's private equity market staged a frenzied comeback in Q2. Deal volume fell from 510 to 399 deals at the same time that value surged by 88%...more
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis recently published its 2018 statistics on the value of new foreign direct investment (NFDI) in the US. New foreign direct investment refers to the amount invested by foreign companies in the...more
Welcome to the 2019 Shearman & Sterling Antitrust Annual Report. Our seventh edition focuses on the contrasting use by regulators of antitrust laws with respect to the FANGs, and how antitrust is being enforced in the U.S....more