Land and patents can still be notifiable acquisitions but the Government has announced that it intends to include exemptions for land acquisitions: involving residential property development; and by any business that is primarily engaged in buying, selling, or leasing property...
The underlying Water Island Merger Arbitrage USD Hedged Index reflects a pure-play, global merger arbitrage strategy investing in definitive, publicly announced mergers and acquisitions. The fund has an exposure of 73.8% in the United States, followed by an exposure of 9.5% in the U.K. The pro...
Mergers and acquisitions are expected to pick up again in 2023, after a slowdown last year. Larger firms flush with cash after spinning out slower-growing business segments, and a slow IPO market are expected to fuel the trend. Companies are also watching major regulatory changes in the Europea...
“We’re at a point in time where it is probably the most difficult it has been in the last 30 years to complete a transaction,” said Aaron Lacey, a lawyer who leads Thompson Coburn’s higher education practice and specialises in mergers and acquisitions. “It’s difficult for the p...
TMF Group, a leading global provider of compliance and administrative services, today announced the appointment of three new supervisory board members.
Over the past few months,much of the headlines in the plastics news journals have focused on the mega mergers that are taking place in the plastics industry as well as other industries.Today,however,we will confine our comments to just the plastics industry.For example,Exxon has announced ...
While the number of hospital mergers and acquisitions remained low, the size of those few announced transactions were significantly up, researchers reported. The report identified eight “mega-mergers” in which the seller or smaller partner by revenue had over $1 billion in annua...
Chinese companies announced a record high 598 overseas M&A deals last year, worth more than $112 billion, according to Dealogic, a financial platform provider. Less than two months into 2016, Chinese companies already have spent roughly $55 billion on outbound M&As, according to public statistics...
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)announced new measures to further reform its STAR market to better serve sci-tech innovation and promote the development of new quality productive forces. The measures will focus on improving the board's institutional mechanisms for issuance and underwriti...
Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Competition recently announced key changes to its merger control notification thresholds, adding a new local nexus test and a new minimum turnover threshold for the acquired entity. This is a significant development in parallel to the GAC's increasingly a...