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2017 private equity buyout volume reached a record high, and deal value reached levels not seen since the financial crisis. Read insight from our M&A team:
#PE
#MnA
We look at the major trends driving global
#MnA
through 2017 and into 2018: resurgence in the
#energy
sector, resilience among UK dealmakers and an increasing appetite for overseas acquisitions by US firms. Read more:
The latest issue of the Financial Regulatory Observer looks at selected topics driving the regulatory and technological changes in the financial industry. Read it here:
#financialservices
#banking
#Privateequity
was involved in nearly 25 percent of announced deals in the
#financialservices
sector in 2018. Read more in our report on opportunities for financial sponsors in FIG
#MnA
:
Virtual currency and
#blockchain
technology are becoming an important component of the global financial system and steadily gaining legitimacy as a global legal framework begins to take form. Read more:
#fintech
#banking
It has been a banner year for the leveraged debt markets, and despite a number of political and economic headwinds, 2018 could be even stronger. Read more in our report:
#Europe
#capitalmarkets
Significant opportunities exist for financial sponsors to invest across the whole spectrum of
#financialservices
sub-sectors. Read more in our latest report:
Our latest report on European Financial Services M&A highlights the key trends and drivers in the second half of 2018, and provides in-depth insight into the outlook for 2019. See it here:
#financialservices
#MnA
Exiting African
#PE
investments: While IPOs remain scarce, other promising exit strategies are gaining traction. Read more in our
#Africa
Focus report:
#privateequity
"When it comes to legal or regulatory issues, political meddling is the number-one reason why acquirers leave the negotiating table." Read insight on cross-border
#techMnA
in our latest report:
Private equity buyout activity rose to new heights in 2018 despite a slower Q4, and all signs point to a busy year ahead. Read insight from our M&A team.
#mergers
#acquisitions
#MnA
After the shock of the financial crisis a decade ago, a new landscape emerged across European debt markets and has continued to mature and develop over the past decade. Read more in our report on European
#leveragedfinance
:
The White & Case M&A Explorer is updated quarterly with the latest M&A data from
@Mergermarket
. Sign up here to be the first to know when new data is available:
We're pleased to sponsor
@NationalGallery
's exhibition “Eden to Empire” dedicated to one of America's preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole. The exhibition is on display through October 7th. Read more about the exhibition here:
#ThomasCole
In our recent
#techMnA
survey we asked executives in the tech industry what legal or regulatory challenges have caused them to walk away from a potential cross-border transaction. See what they said:
We're pleased to sponsor
@metmuseum
's exhibition of one of America's preeminent landscape painters, “Thomas Cole's Journey”. The exhibition examines Cole's career in relation to his European roots and travels and is on display through 13 May.
#ThomasCole
Following an interesting year of regulatory developments in 2017, fintechs have a range of viable bank charter options to explore in the US. Read more:
#fintech
#banking
#financialservices
European
#fintech
: 2018 is shaping up to be the year of the regulators as fintechs attract increasing interest from venture capitalists and
#MnA
activity grows. Read more:
Following an interesting year of regulatory developments in 2017, fintechs have a range of viable bank charter options to explore in the US. Read more:
#fintech
#banking
#financialservices
"Energy firms are looking at their portfolios and asking what they have to do to achieve the results they need in the current pricing environment." Gregory Pryor on energy
#MnA
in 2018. Read more:
#energy
#power
As the
#leverageddebt
market has matured at pace in the past decade, many are hopeful that it will maintain an upward trajectory, at least in the medium term. Read more:
Create charts tracking M&A activity with the White & Case M&A Explorer, which contains more than 10 years of global
#MnA
data from
@Mergermarket
. Try it for yourself here:
Following our sponsorship of Thomas Cole
@metmuseum
we are excited as the journey takes his works to the country of his birth
@nationalgallery
from 11th June. See details here:
#ThomasCole
Watch empires rise and fall, and lose yourself in the vast American wilderness, in the first UK exhibition dedicated to Thomas Cole − the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Opening 11 June, book tickets online and save:
#ThomasCole
The boom in electric vehicles is expected to bring a structural shortage in the nickel market between now and 2025 —with demand expected to grow from 40,000 tonnes to 220,000 tonnes. Read more:
#mining
#MnA
"Thomas Cole's Journey" exhibition at
@metmuseum
displays some of Cole's most ambitious works created on his return to America from his travels in Europe. We are pleased to sponsor this exhibit on display through 13 May. See details here:
#ThomasCole
Growing appetite for PE-backed M&A in fintech, payments, specialty finance, credit cards and challenger banks. Read more in our report on opportunities for financial sponsors in FIG
#MnA
:
#financialservices