The aim of this guide is to provide its readers with a pragmatic overview of Merger & Acquisitions laws and regulations across a variety of jurisdictions.
Each chapter of this guide provides information about market sectors, regulatory authorities, due diligence, deal protection, public disclosure, governing law, director duties and key influencing factors influencing M&A activity over the next two years.
The Q&A template for each chapter has been provided by Richard Hall of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
Hot Topic: SPAC Transactions in the United States
In 2020, amidst the sweeping changes in business and social behavior resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in the activity of special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) emerged as one of the new and most prominent M&A topics in the United States. Although SPACs have existed in various forms since the 1990s, they have not …
Hot Topic: Carve-Out Transactions: Particularities under Swiss Law
2020 brought an unprecedented market disruption: a global pandemic and a subsequent economic downturn. Many companies try to recover from the effects of the (still ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic by raising liquidity and refocusing on their core business. As a result, we have noticed a significant increase of carve-out transactions in Switzerland in the last 12 …
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Hot Topic: Post-Pandemic and Brexit Gibraltar: A Market Ripening for M&A Activity
Financial Services have for many years been a mainstay of the Gibraltar offering, in particular the online gaming industry (for which Gibraltar is a World leader), the insurance sector (with Gibraltar companies insuring 1 in 5 cars in the UK) and more recently in the burgeoning Fintech space (where Gibraltar has led the way on …
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