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Roundtable: post-merger integration after the pandemic: what are the emerging pitfalls?
18 November 2021, 9.30am London/10.30am Berlin
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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 Helena Samaha is a multicultural lawyer with substantial international experience. Helena began in private practice as a finance lawyer at Clifford Chance before moving in house at Virgin Group in 1998 where she served as group legal director. She was subsequently a TMC partner at DLA Piper. Thereafter, with a global recession looming, Helena joined restructuring and turnaround consultancy AlixPartners as general counsel – EMEA in 2008 in Paris. In 2011 Helena joined broadcaster OSN in Dubai 2011 as GC. Back in London since 2015, Helena led the media and programming team for Liberty Global before being appointed as Lex Mundi president and CEO in 2019.
Eric Staal
Vice president, global markets, Lex Mundi As vice president of Lex Mundi’s global markets team, Eric Staal oversees the organisation’s Equisphere service model for corporate clients. The global markets team consists of professionals worldwide who interface with Lex Mundi member firms and corporate counsel to support legal projects that have cross-border dimensions. Eric also oversees Lex Mundi’s ‘thought leadership’ insights and resources for senior corporate counsel, which help clients to address significant legal and regulatory trends through online resources, templates, programmes, and best-practices analysis. Eric has led many general counsel roundtable discussions and workshops for senior in-house teams. He has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) from the Fletcher School in Boston, a Certificate in Executive Management from Oxford Said.
Owen Durnin
Head of Europe | global markets, Lex Mundi Owen Durnin has a strong background in sales and business development within the UK legal services market. Owen has experience building, developing, and managing large legal resources contracts with market-leading law firms and barristers chambers, the Big Four consultancies, and suppliers to the UK Government. He is part of a global team focused on understanding the evolving needs of busy general counsel and on building cross border legal teams to meet specific requirements.
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Lex Mundi
Lex Mundi is the world’s leading network of independent law firms delivering consistent, high-quality advice critical to solving complex cross-border challenges. Our carefully vetted and continuously reviewed top-tier member firms uphold the highest-level service standards while offering preferred access to more than 22,000 lawyers worldwide in more than 125 countries. Supported by client-focused methods, innovative technologies, joint learning and training, member firms collaborate across borders and industries to deliver joined-up solutions focused on real business results for clients. Through Lex Mundi Equisphere, our innovative service delivery model, clients can assemble an outstanding international legal team, with the best lawyers in the jurisdictions that match their unique footprint, flexed to their most significant legal challenges. With Equisphere, clients benefit from high-performance cross-border solutions for restructurings, transactions, disputes, investigations, and risk assessment challenges while benefiting from greater manageability of budgets and milestones. Lex Mundi member law firms are located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. In addition, through our non-profit affiliate, the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, our members also provide pro bono legal assistance to social entrepreneurs around the globe.More info
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