Dec 05, 2023 Due diligence dinner: How much M&A activity is on the menu for 2024? By Brian Major What a pleasure it was to partner with the Financial Times at our M&A dinner last week in New York. Just as advertised, every seat at the...
Feb 21, 2023 Merger control planning – five ways to mitigate increasing scrutiny By Mat Hughes Sean O'Flynn Ben Forbes With the challenges currently seen in the M&A market for large-scale standalone acquisitions, one widely applied M&A strategy is “buy and...
Jan 20, 2023 Post-Merger Value Creation: Five imperatives for safeguarding shareholder value & overcoming the winner’s curse By Marco Golic Stefan Ohl Lennard Weghoeft Research shows that many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail, i.e., do not increase shareholder value. The main reason is that those...
Nov 18, 2022 Why Case Review Meetings increasingly really matter in UK merger review By Mat Hughes Matt Hunt Case Review Meetings (CRMs) are an important stage in Phase 1 UK merger review. We were recently asked by a client what proportion of...
Nov 22, 2021 Big data in Merger Control: Part 3 - Lessons from the coal face By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield In this series of posts, we are focusing on the increasingly important topic of Big Data and its role in merger control assessments. Our...
Sep 01, 2021 Killer acquisitions: the trouble with predictions By Ben Forbes Mat Hughes Camelia O'Brien So-called “killer acquisitions” – where large firms acquire threatening start-ups – have become an increasing focus of global merger...
Jun 30, 2021 Big Data in Merger Control: Part 2 – Is Big Data friend or foe? By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield In this series of posts, we are focusing on the increasingly important topic of Big Data and its role in merger control assessments. In...
Dec 09, 2020 Regulating the regulation of digital markets: do the DMT’s proposals strike the right balance? By Mat Hughes Matt Hunt The CMA’s Digital Markets Taskforce (DMT) today delivered its advice to the UK government, setting out its proposals to promote...