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What M&A trends will transform the 2024 insurance landscape?
It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
My work as business litigator and parent collided one evening while reading "Are You My Mother?" a popular children's book by P.D. Eastman. As the story goes, a newly-hatched baby bird earnestly asks a series of creatures—none birds—if they are his mother. Baby bird's story ends happily, but not before asking a boat, a plane, and an ornery bulldozer if each—however impossibly—might be his mother. When mother reunites with baby bird, each recognizes the other for who she is. The pairing is both obvious and natural for both characters and the reader.
Plaintiffs in business litigation—sometimes less earnestly—ask a similar question of defendants with whom they may share a business, or even familial relationship. The Question: Are you my fiduciary?
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It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
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The ongoing conflicts and further geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, coupled with upcoming elections in a number of key countries including the US and the UK, make 2024 challenging to predict what impact this will have on the insurance sector.
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On 6 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) prohibited Illumina’s acquisition of Grail, bringing to an end the administrative stage of a legal saga that has attracted interest beyond competition law specialists.
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