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Bracing for the New EU Foreign Subsidies Regime: How Should Dealmakers Prepare for a New M&A Hurdle?

Niklas Maydell — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:19:46 +0000

The far-reaching EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation came into force on 12 January 2023. Intended to address concerns around subsidies from non-EU countries distorting competition within the EU internal market, the FSR will impose a new mandatory filing obligation for M&A deals meeting certain turnover and financial thresholds from mid-October this year, as well as the […]

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Weil’s Q1 2021 Quarterly Private Equity Update: Trends in Minority Investments

Timothy Burns — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:07:00 +0000

Weil’s Global Private Equity Update provides updates on current topics and trends in global private equity. This issue summarizes trends in minority investments across jurisdictions. View Weil’s Q1 2021 Global PE Update.

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SPACS Come to the U.K.

Murray Cox — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:05:44 +0000

THE UNITED KINGDOM’S FINANCIAL REGULATOR, THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY (FCA), RELEASED A CONSULTATION PAPER OUTLINING PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO ITS LISTING RULES DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE SPACS TO OBTAIN A STANDARD LISTING ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE’S MAIN MARKET. The amendments modify some aspects of the FCA’s Listing Rules that have made it practically impossible for SPACs […]

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U.K. National Security and Investment Bill

Ian Hamilton — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:20:18 +0000

ON 11 NOVEMBER 2020 THE UK GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED ITS NATIONAL SECURITY AND INVESTMENT BILL. IF THE BILL IS ENACTED AND COMES INTO FORCE IN SUBSTANTIALLY ITS CURRENT FORM (WHICH SEEMS VERY LIKELY), IT WILL PROVIDE THE GOVERNMENT WITH WIDE-RANGING POWERS TO INTERVENE IN TRANSACTIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY GROUNDS AND, IN RELATION TO CERTAIN KEY SECTORS, […]

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Weil’s Q4 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: Going Private Transactions in the U.S., the U.K. and Hong Kong

Ian Hamilton — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:53:00 +0000

Private equity sponsors and other financial investors continue to look at going private transactions. In this update, we summarize key similarities and differences of going private transactions in three financial centers with global reach: the U.S., the U.K., and Hong Kong. View the Q4 2019 Global PE Update.

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Weil’s Q2 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: U.S. and U.K. SPACs

Douglas P. Warner — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:27:44 +0000

In this issue, we compare the key similarities and differences between U.S. and U.K. SPACs. SPACs are increasingly being viewed as an additional platform for private equity sponsors to complement their existing platforms. They provide sponsors with favorable economics and the opportunity to target companies that may want to go public rather than remain private […]

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Can a Parent be Liable for Loss Caused by its Subsidiaries?

Marco Compagnoni — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 01:45:07 +0000

PARENT COMPANY LIABILITY FOR THE ACTIONS OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES While it is still a general legal principle that entities with separate legal personalities within the same group are not liable for each other’s acts or omissions, in the recent Supreme Court judgment of Vedanta Resources Plc v Lungowe it was confirmed that, in exceptional cases, […]

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Selling Your Portfolio Company Subject to a New York Law Governed Contract—Identifying a Hidden Term Built-In by New York’s Common Law: the Mohawk Doctrine

Glenn D. West — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 01:17:38 +0000

On July 4, 1776, the thirteen American colonies formally severed their ties to the English throne and parliament. It took a war (which commenced a little over a year earlier) to actually effectuate the severing of those ties. But with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, England acknowledged that the United States of America was […]

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Weil’s Q1 2019 Quarterly Private Equity Update: 2018 in Review

Brian Gingold — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:34:51 +0000

In this issue, we look back on 2018 in terms of market activity, trends and developments across the U.S., Europe and Asia, and look ahead to 2019. View Weil’s Q1 2019 Global PE Update.

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Avoiding a Dog’s Breakfast—Some Timely Reminders of How to Effectively Limit the Universe of Purported Representations upon which Fraud Claims Can be Made

Glenn D. West — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:37:35 +0000

A “dog’s breakfast” is one of my favorite British expressions. It can sum up a muddled mess of confusing and contradictory allegations and purported conclusions better than almost any other idiom in the English language. And it was just this expression that Vice Chancellor Glasscock recently used to describe a cacophony of alleged extra-contractual fraud […]

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