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Europe’s Sharpened Focus on Defense Creates M&A and Investment Opportunities

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Key Points - - The war in Ukraine has prompted a historic surge in European defense spending. - Governments in the EU and U.K. are stressing the need for innovation. They are increasingly turning to investment in small...more

A&O Shearman

An extraordinary and transformative year

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Senior partner Wim Dejonghe reflects on a game-changing year for A&O, culminating in the transformative merger with Shearman & Sterling, record full-year revenues and progress across many other strategic areas....more

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Insights – June 2023

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This edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights looks at the latest trends in shareholder activism, the scrutiny companies are facing over their ESG disclosures and employment considerations for using AI in the workplace, among...more

Epiq

The Increasingly Complex World of Competition Review

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Regulatory enforcement agencies are changing their approaches when it comes to competition, and that is now having an effect on the U.K. and European markets. Data and technology underpin the evolving strategies, and it is...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

M&A in 2022 and Trends for 2023

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Following a year of unprecedented M&A deal activity, 2022 saw the global M&A market settle back into a more familiar pace. The year finished 38.8% lower than 2021’s record level, but only 9.3% lower than 2015-2019 averages,...more

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Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

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The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more

White & Case LLP

Supply chain woes refocus investment strategies as M&A and PE soar

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Pandemic-derived supply chain issues unlock investment opportunities - Pent-up demand for M&A deals has been unleashed to deliver the busiest first three quarters of a year for investment banks on Mergermarket record...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - May 2021

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JANUARY – MARCH 2021: HIGHLIGHTS - UNITED STATES - - As the United States rounds the corner toward getting the COVID-19 epidemic under control within its borders, the US antitrust enforcers have seen a major spike in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

National Security and Investment Controls The Governments White Paper

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Amongst the flurry of ministerial assignments issued on the last day of a rather turbulent political term, was the Government’s White Paper on national security investment controls and the accompanying Statement of Policy...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Judge John Bates of the US District Court for DC has blocked a proposed $37 billion mega-health-care-merger between Aetna and Humana, one of 2 major deals before the courts opposed by the Obama-era DOJ over antitrust...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Ratings Agency Moody’s Corp. has agreed to pay roughly $864 million to resolve federal and state claims that it gave juiced ratings to risky MBS in the run-up to the financial crisis. Half of the total will end up in DOJ...more

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