M&A Building Blocks

Webinar series

United Kingdom | March 10, 2022

Our on-demand webinar series breaks down the essential building blocks required to ensure an M&A process runs smoothly.

Aimed at junior members of an M&A team, or those looking for a refresher on the core issues, the series is designed to provide the building blocks to a range of topics essential to understanding the M&A process.

We will be exploring more M&A topics in the future so please register your interest to ensure you receive updates of when new topics are available.

Topics

Planning for the best process

In this webinar we look at how to plan the best process for a privately negotiated M&A transaction, including the key matters to be considered in the early stages. We consider the buyer’s and seller’s objectives, establishing the deal perimeter (including asset sales v share sale and pre-sale re-organisations) as well as a comparison of the possible sale processes and the key early stage documents.

United Kingdom | Webinar | April 12, 2022

Merger Control

In this webinar we discuss merger control, in particular the main stages in merger control analysis (including the importance of undertaking this analysis at an early stage), deals which may be more likely to raise substantive competition concerns and appropriate protections for transaction documents.

Global | Webinar | April 04, 2022

Tax considerations in M&A transactions

This webinar looks at a key area of negotiation on M&A transactions, the warranties, indemnities and seller protection provisions.

Global | Webinar | March 11, 2022

Disputes considerations

This webinar considers the dispute resolution clause and privilege, two areas which are often not given the detailed consideration they required in M&A transactions. In addition to considering the two...

Global | Webinar | February 07, 2022

Warranties, W&I insurance and seller protections

This webinar looks at a key area of negotiation on M&A transactions, the warranties, indemnities and seller protection provisions.

Global | Webinar | January 11, 2022

Pre-sale reorganisations

This webinar discusses corporate law and UK tax considerations which may arise on pre-sale reorganisations carried out to enable a third party sale of a target group or business.

Global | Webinar | December 10, 2021

Business sales

Business sales can be more complex to document and to execute than share sales. This webinar describes some key principles to be understood and explains some important areas of difference between the two types of transaction.

Global | Webinar | November 23, 2021

Conditionality and its consequences

In this webinar we look at the most common reasons buyers may require an SPA to be conditional and the consequences this may have on the sale documentation and the M&A process, including pre-completion undertakings, repetition of warranties at completion and completion obligations.

United Kingdom | Webinar | November 02, 2021

Due diligence and disclosure

This webinar looks at the due diligence process, both from a buy side and sell side perspective, including building a data room and a comparison of vendor and buyer due diligence.

United Kingdom | Webinar | November 02, 2021

Purchase price mechanisms

This webinar explores how is the price on an acquisition may be determined and verified, considers the two main purchase price mechanisms: completion accounts and locked box mechanisms and the key points for documenting such mechanisms.

United Kingdom | Webinar | November 02, 2021

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