Author: Nathan Elbrond-Palmer

• TRANSATLANTIC M&A: PART ONE

  Purchase Price Mechanisms: Locked Box vs Completion Accounts During recent months, a myriad of different factors have greatly improved the outlook for would-be US acquirers of European target companies. With the dollar recently achieving parity against the euro for the first time in twenty years, US buyers have benefitted from greater acquisition power, meaning foreign…

  15th Jul 2023

• ESG RATINGS PROVIDERS: PART ONE

  Navigating the Unregulated Status Quo Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors have risen to great prominence in the financial markets in recent years, with investors beginning to increasingly rely on these non-financial factors to frame their investment decisions. Indeed, during 2020, 65% of institutional investors reported using so-called ‘ESG ratings’ at least once per week,…

  4th Jun 2023

• COMPETITIVE EDGE

  Navigating the CMA’s Recent Antitrust Guidance to Employers With the issuance of its latest guidance document, Employers advice on how to avoid anti-competitive behaviour, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has signalled its intention to ratchet up antitrust scrutiny of labour markets, reflecting a trend which continues to gather momentum amongst competition regulators across…

  8th Apr 2023

• GENERATIVE AI

  Navigating the Key Intellectual Property and Data Protection Risks In a world characterised by increasing geopolitical tensions, macroeconomic shocks and general after-effects of a destructive pandemic, disruption has arguably been a common thread over the last twelve months. More recently, the disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI) has once again resurfaced, with the emergence ofchatbots…

  22nd Mar 2023