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28 Nov 2019
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2019 has seen a significant rise in the number of private equity (PE) and other financial buyers on public mergers and acquisitions (M&A). When a PE house undertakes a public M&A transaction, it should be aware from the outset that there are some key differences to private M&A, and that there are specific issues for PE bidders that do not commonly arise on other public M&A deals, particularly if they are forming a consortium to make the offer.
In this article for PLC magazine, we look at some of the particular issues that they encounter.
This article was first published in the December 2019 issue of PLC Magazine
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