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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.
Welcome to our fourth quarter issue of Norton Rose Fulbright's International Restructuring Newswire. We again draw on our global team of lawyers to address some of the key issues facing restructuring professionals.
The recent restructuring of the Dutch shipping group Vroon demonstrates vividly the challenges facing practitioners dealing with the complexities of cross-border situations. The restructuring also demonstrates that with creativity and perseverance, practitioners can use the tools that exist to put together deals that preserve businesses and maximize recoveries for creditors and other stakeholders. Here, we take an in-depth look at the successful Vroon restructuring and how the parties used both a Dutch WHOA and an English scheme of arrangement to get the deal done.
In this issue, we also hear from our practitioners in Canada on the challenges to intercreditor covenants in insolvency proceedings and in the US on how cannabis companies fare in the US bankruptcy courts. And we take a global view on two increasingly critical issues: the use of mediation in restructurings and risk to directors of companies on the cusp of insolvency.
Good reading!
Howard Seife
Global Co-Head of Restructuring
New York
Scott Atkins
Global Co-Head of Restructuring
Sydney
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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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