M&A REVIEW Special 09/2024 - pemacom

Private Equity and M&A Community (pemacom) is the industry’s leading conference for cross-border private equity and mergers & acquisitions transactions.

Subscription line financing is now a well-established and useful tool in the armoury available to an investment fund. It can bridge short term financing needs, allowing funds to move quickly in relation to successful bids for investments, and also ensure that the day to day costs of running the fund are not dependent on a stream of small drawdowns from investors.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the cutting edge of technological innovation, poised to revolutionize various industries and our daily lives. Recent advancements in machine learning, neural networks, and data analytics have propelled AI forward, enabling systems to process vast amounts of data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention. Today, generative AI applications span video, image, audio, text, and code, impacting sectors like healthcare, finance, manufacturing, gaming, and more.

SAFE, a popular form of early-stage financing in North America, is not well received in Germany. However, it does work if the right mechanism is used.

On 24 January 2024, the European Commission (“Commission) published a proposal to reform the current Regulation on Foreign Direct Investment Screening (Regulation 2019/452) (“FDI Screening Regulation).

In an era of greater economic nationalism and protectionism, there are increased regulatory burdens for buyers generally around the globe, and the EU and UK are no exception to that, albeit fewer such barriers exist in the UK.

Valu8 Company Intelligence facilitates the European deal origination progress using the latest technology.

If you are a US based buyer bidding to acquire a European target group, it will be important to take legal and other advice on at least the following areas:

Directors of companies registered in England and Wales have been served a stark reminder that they need to take their duties seriously when trading in the “zone of insolvency”.

Since the introduction of Section 55a into the German Act on Limited Liability Companies (GmbHG) by the German Act for the Modernisation of the GmbH (MoMIG) in 2008, authorised capital has been explicitly permitted for German limited liability companies (GmbHs).

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA or the Act) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is seen as a key part of the UK government’s legislative programme to prevent the abuse of UK corporate structures and tackle economic crime.

After years of growth, fears of recession, falling consumer confidence, persistently high interest rates and continuing sanctions against Russia have abruptly slowed the long boom in mergers and acquisitions.