Stronger regulatory enforcement, tighter internal governance, and the increased risks to the transaction has led to the number of leaked M&A deals in 2014 falling to its lowest level in six years, according to Intralinks. The fall in the percentage of deals involving a leak prior to the announcement of
A new report from Goldman Sachs, produced in partnership with the British Business Bank and the Enterprise Research Centre with support from Scale-Ip Institute and Said Business School, details the critical role UK SMEs can play in addressing the UK’s ‘productivity gap’, a deficit identified in the UK Government’s Productivity Plan
Ahead of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting on 18 and 19 November, Asia Pacific CEOs have expressed a number of concerns and believe prospects for business growth over the next 12 months are dimming fast. That’s according to PwC’s fifth annual APEC CEO Survey, which reveals that
US alternative investment managers (IMs) continue to operate with elevated levels of uncalled investment capital, or dry powder, at a time when credit markets remain competitive and valuations are high, according to a special report by Fitch Ratings. 'With more capital chasing fewer deals, significant fund underperformance is possible if
The attitudes of fund managers in Europe towards the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) are continuing to evolve as managers increasingly get to grip with risk management and reporting, according to new research. The conclusions of the ‘Changing Structure of Alternative Asset Management’, conducted by IFI Global and sponsored
At a time of rising demands from US pension funds for proper disclosure and record US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fines against private equity firms, LPs have given a clarion call for fees to be more clearly explained. The Reputational Risk in Private Equity Report (RRiPE) 2015 surveyed the
Seventy-four per cent of private equity fund managers made firm-wide increases in base salary from 2014 to 2015, according to Preqin’s 2016 Private Equity Compensation and Employment Review. According to the survey of almost 200 private equity firms, the average increase in salary was 7 per cent, with 14 per
European corporates continue to embrace alternative finance, with about one third (30 per cent) of their funding coming from this source, according to research published by Allen & Overy. However, the market remains fragmented and largely domestic, requiring an industry-wide effort to embrace a uniform standard in order to harness
Ropes & Gray represented six pharmaceutical companies and Alzheimer’s Research UK in their investment in the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), a UK Government-sponsored fund established to support the discovery and development of novel dementia treatments. This public-private collaboration is the first of its kind to address one of the most
The Association of Investment Companies’ (AIC) sixth annual survey of venture capital trust (VCT) investment reveals that a total of 13,508 new jobs have been created at the SMEs surveyed since the beginning of the VCT investment scheme. According to the survey – ‘Nurturing success, delivering growth: VCT investment 1995-2015’
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