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Roundtable: post-merger integration after the pandemic: what are the emerging pitfalls?
20 January 2022, 4.00pm Hong Kong/Singapore
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Roundtable: post-merger integration after the pandemic: what are the emerging pitfalls?
Overview
Out of the shockwave of the pandemic comes the hottest M&A market since the dot-com bubble (remember how that ended). Buoyed by SPACs, unprecedented liquidity, and limitless government spending, we have now had three consecutive quarters of +$1trn in M&A deals.
Against the pacesetting speed of virtual-remote diligence exercises, negotiations, and closings lurk the harsher realities of delivering post-deal synergies. Investors are all too aware that many deals won’t return shareholder value.
The emerging post-Covid regulatory landscape suggests that corporate legal teams will have more influence than ever over integrations.
This roundtable will ask general counsel to share experience supporting integrations and lessons learned in the current environment.
Speakers
Helena Samaha
President and CEO, Lex Mundi
Eric Staal
Vice president, global markets, Lex Mundi
Dan Himpson
Head of global markets, APAC Dan Himpson heads up Lex Mundi’s global markets team in APAC. Dan connects Lex Mundi member firms and corporate counsel to deliver cross-border legal services based out of Shanghai (a city he’s called home for the last ten years). Dan has over ten years’ cross-border project management experience and was project director at a Fortune 500 company before joining Lex Mundi.
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Lex Mundi
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