For a long time, the regulated, uncertain and public nature of takeovers curbed the enthusiasm of financial buyers looking for a slick M&A process and low execution risk. More recently, competition for overpriced assets forced international and domestic private equity bidders into the public markets, where they discovered they could, in fact, play the game rather well.
Head of Corporate M&A and ECM Andrew Gillen, Senior Associate Fabian McNeilly and Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Senior Associate Laura Kelly have written a two part article for Reuters and Thomson Reuters Westlaw.
You can read the first part in Reuters and Westlaw, and the second part in Reuters and Westlaw also.
