Choose ONE title –
1. Private equity and venture capital firms approach deals differently
than company to company deals. Critically discuss, providing any support
as to how there are similarities and differences in structuring, drafting and
negotiating transactions.
2. Due diligence standards in the US and the UK, appear to provide
deal parties different incentives as to disclosure. Critically discuss.
3. Takeover rules are different in the USA as compared to the UK.
Critically discuss.
4. Shareholder activism has become an important component part of
change for mobilizing corporations to profit maximizing actions, and also
toward advancing social purpose objectives. Critically discuss how this
may influence corporate behaviour toward corporate purchases and
divestitures of capital.
5. SPAC’s have become significant in the US but not in the UK. The
same applies to restructuring of firms with substantial market participant
ecosystems to support them in the US and an absence of same in the UK.
Critically discuss and compare either SPAC’s or restructuring as areas
where legal and market reforms could unleash further mergers and
acquisitions activity in the UK.
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