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International Insights

Edition 5: Spring 2025

International Insights

Overview

A note from our Head of International

I am delighted to share with you our latest quarterly International Insights. 

It's been a busy start to 2025 and this edition is timely as we have recently announced that we will be opening a new office in Brussels. This is a really exciting and natural progression for the firm, given the international nature of our work, client base and our Competition team, which includes EU and UK-qualified lawyers.  

We also wanted to share a few recent international client highlights from the last quarter, including advising two healthcare REITs in takeovers by US biddersadvising Bank J. Safra Sarasin on the acquisition of a majority stake in Saxo Bank, and advising Steve Madden on a definitive agreement to acquire Kurt Geiger.

In this edition of Travers Smith's International Insights, we also bring you a postcard from one of our international secondees and our latest UK legal update.

Looking ahead, we will be attending the IPBA Conference in Chicago (22-25 April) and also the IBA M&A Conference in NY (4-5 June). Please do get in touch if you will be there, we hope to see many of our international friends on our travels!

Will Howard, Head of International

A postcard from...

Madrid

In this series, we speak to our inbound and outbound seconded lawyers about their experience working at firms in different jurisdictions.

We dive into the differences in legal work, culture and what they've learnt from working in a new country. In this edition, we speak to Senior Associate Adam Bradley, who, in April of last year, was seconded to Madrid from our Dispute Resolution team.

Read the postcard

UK Legal Update

In the Spring edition of our biannual UK Legal update, we review recent developments in UK law and practice and scan the horizon for future changes which may have an impact on businesses operating in or trading with the UK. 

Read the full update

Spotlight on...

International employment law podcast series - New Zealand

Travers Smith x MinterEllisonRuddWatts

Welcome to the latest in our series of podcasts focusing on international employment law.

In this edition, Associates from our Employment team are joined by Associates from MinterEllisonRuddWatts' Employment team in Auckland, where they discuss the process of hiring, ending employment, and other notable considerations when employing staff in New Zealand.

Find out more and listen to the series.

Our publications

Our publications

Private Equity Market Insights 2025

Private Equity Market Insights 2025

For this edition of our, we have analysed data from an array of international private equity transactions on which we have acted and worked with our teams from across the firm to highlight some of the key M&A, debt and regulatory themes we are seeing in the market.

Public Trends

Public Trends

Travers Smith acted on a number of UK public bids in 2024, and 2025 is already shaping up to be an active year for the corporate team. We are currently acting for the bid vehicle on the offer for Alliance Pharma plc, for two healthcare REITs in takeovers by US bidders, and have several other takeovers in the pipeline. We therefore continue to benefit from direct insight and market knowledge of UK public deals, and against that backdrop, we are delighted to present our latest Public M&A trends publication.

Our International Board and Next Generation International Board

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