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International Restructuring Newswire
Welcome to the Q2 2024 edition of the Norton Rose Fulbright International Restructuring Newswire.
On September 26, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange announced the $3.2 billion acquisition of Bats Global Markets, a high-tech stock exchange founded 11 years ago. Of course, a multi-billion dollar merger transaction is little news to the New York legal market these days. Still, the CBOE-Bats deal is a timely reminder of the existence of a vibrant financial technology (“fintech”) sector largely based in New York.
The fintech industry has gone through several waves of M&A activity over the last two decades. Internet-enabled consumer services, online banks, stock exchanges and trading platforms have all seen sector consolidation—and also fragmentation. These transactions have remade important components of the financial services sector. To put the Bats transaction in context, a global wave of stock exchange consolidation at the end of the last decade was partly due to a new wave of competitors— including Bats—coming into the market since 2000.
Read the full article: Fintech A new MA frontier
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Welcome to the Q2 2024 edition of the Norton Rose Fulbright International Restructuring Newswire.
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The Canadian Federal Budget 2024 proposes to broaden the scope of certain powers allowing CRA to request information from taxpayers, and sets out new consequences for non-compliant taxpayers.
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The alternative minimum tax is an additional income tax imposed under the Income Tax Act on individuals and certain trusts who would otherwise be able to reduce their ordinary Canadian federal income tax through the use of certain deductions, exemptions or credits.
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