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UK Public M&A Monthly Activity Update: August 2025

In August 2025, there were three Rule 2.7 announcements made across the UK public M&A market and one further possible offer announced....more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.30.2021 | Top Story: Congress Nears Short-Term Deal to Fund Government

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Congressional leaders have reportedly reached a last-minute short-term deal to “avert a government shutdown” before today’s midnight deadline. Plenty of issues—including the need to raise the debt ceiling and the status of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.11.2021 | Top Story: Senate Passes Bipartisan $1.2T Infrastructure Package

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As expected but slightly hard to believe given where things stood just months ago, the U.S. Senate managed to pass a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday, with 19 Republicans joining Democrats in approving...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.25.2021 | Top Story: White House and Senators Strike Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal

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President Biden and a bipartisan group of Senators announced a deal that would provide just shy of $600 billion in “new investments in roads, broadband internet, electric utilities and other projects” that form an important...more

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Financial Daily Dose 5.14.2021 | Top Story: Colonial Pipeline Paid $5M Ransom to Hackers, Set Dangerous Precedent

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After a series of denials, it has emerged that Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid 75 Bitcoin (roughly $5 million) to recover its stolen data from last weekend’s ransomware attack. The move likely put a quicker end to the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.25.2021 | Top Story: Still-Blocked Suez Canal Adds to Supply-Chain Woes, Pushes Prices Higher

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More on how the clogged Suez Canal is combining with “a burst of demand for consumer goods” thanks to a resurgent U.S. economy is “heaping pressure on already strained supply chains” and potentially push prices higher in...more

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CME Group to Launch a Global Emissions Offset Futures Contract

CME Group has announced plans to launch a carbon futures contract intended to offer a transparent, standardised and market-based solution to manage global emissions risk. ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.5.2021 | Top Story: Senate Advances $1.9 Trillion White House Covid Relief Measure

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With Vice President Harris acting as the tiebreaker (and following a 15-hour amendment vote-a-rama), the Senate voted on Thursday to move forward with the White House’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief measure....more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.7.2020 | Top Story: November Hiring Well Below Expectations as Employment Recovery Stalls

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Friday’s jobs report was not only 200,000 jobs below projections for November, but it marked the fifth straight month of a diminished pace of hiring in the United States and brought urgency to facing the reality that there...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.29.2020 | Top Story: White House Declares Meat Processing “Critical Infrastructure” Even as Unions Object...

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Despite [actually, more likely because of] a rash of recent closures at meat processing facilities due to COVID-19 outbreaks, the White House issued an executive order classifying the slaughterhouses as “critical...more

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Coronavirus and cracks in your armor: Recognizing impending financial stressors spawned by a health pandemic

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One by one, at devastating speed, communities across the globe are facing the effects of Covid-19. With more than 115,000 reported cases to date, we are no longer awaiting a new reality; we have met it head on....more

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Draft CFIUS Regulations Portend Evolution, Not Revolution

On September 17, 2019, the Department of the Treasury, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or Committee), issued two sets of proposed regulations seeking to further implement the...more

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International Cyber Task Force Reports on Cyber Regulation

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The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published the final report of its Cyber Task Force on cyber regulation. The report sets out how IOSCO member jurisdictions apply three recognized cyber frameworks -...more

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Italy improves transparency and extends its "golden powers" to protect new (corporate) treasures

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On October 16, 2017 the Italian government adopted Law Decree no. 148/2017 (the "Decree") containing, inter alia, new measures aimed at improving the transparency of Italy's regulated markets and extending the Italian...more

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