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Deal Economy 2010: Outlook for global deals

The world is becoming a smaller place when it comes to dealmaking, notes a panel including a corporate dealmaker at Novartis and an attorney from Linklaters.


Linklaters' Schmidt on Pfizer-Wyeth review

The approval by U.S. antitrust regulators of Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth is an outlier of how merger reviews will be conducted under the Obama administration.


Linklaters' Schmidt on antitrust merger reviews

Linklaters' Jeffrey Schmidt says agencies are scrutinizing proposed acquisitions more closely than they have in years


M&A Outlook 2009: Linklaters' Rees on why sovereign wealth funds investments have slowed

At the Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, Nick Rees, a co-managing partner corporate and M&A group of Linklaters LLP, said investments from sovereign wealth funds have slowed down. "They have been less active than we all thought they would be," he explains. See the video after the break. - Maria Woehr...


M&A Outlook 2009: Linklaters' Rees and Grant Thorton's Beecy on cross-border M&A

At The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, Nick Rees, co-managing partner of the corporate M&A group at Linklaters LLP,  and Paul Beecy, a tax partner at Grant Thornton LLP, discussed cross-border dealmaking and investments by BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- in U.S. businesses. - Maria Woehr...


M&A Outlook 2009: Have we witnessed the end of cross-border deals?

At the Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, panelists Paul Beecy, tax partner at Grant Thornton LLP, Nick Rees, co-managing partner corporate and M&A group of Linklaters LLP, and Steve Baronoff, managing director and head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch & Co., spoke about cross-border dealmaking. In this video Beecy explains that dealmaking at the moment is very sparse and strategic, while Baronoff believes there will be a pause in dealmaking that will last until the second quarter of 2009. "Uncertainty is very dramatic in this period of time and even more dramatic in cross-border situations," he said. - Maria...


FTC antitrust maven officially off to Linklaters

Linklaters LLP announced that Jeffrey Schmidt, director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, will join the firm's New York office as a competition-antitrust partner. The announcement confirms a March 3 report in The Daily Deal that said Schmidt would join the London-based law firm. No date of departure has been announced....



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