Dealcast: The M&A Podcast ION Analytics

It has been two years since the national security in investment act came into law, that’s the legislation for takeovers that could harm national security and its influence is being felt in the UK newspaper industry currently with the attempted purchase of the Daily Telegraph’s parent company. In the episode we’re looking at what’s changed with the new law and how things can evolve further with an ongoing review plus a general election expected during 2024. Joining Julie-Anna Neeham is Wahida Ahmed who is reporter for Mergermarket and PaRR and Jacob Parry who is the chief regulatory correspondent for Mergermarket and PaRR.

New episode of the Dealcast – M&A Tales, Rupert speaks to Oriol Pinya who is Co-Founder of Abac Capital, they talk about the move from large -cap to SME’s, the impact of personalities and some of the challenges of doing SME deals. Our M&A Tales host is Mergermarket's Rupert Cocke Senior Editor & Head of Iberian

In this weeks' special episode, we’re looking at the M&A annual leaks report. It’s a study by the M&A Research centre at Bayes Business School for SS&C Intralinks. Joining Julie-Anna Needham is Dr Valeriya Vitkova who’s a senior lecturer in corporate finance at Bayes and a director of client research at the M&A research centre who wrote the report.

Here is the full report: https://www.intralinks.com/blog/2023/11/deep-dive-ma-deal-leaks-and-board-diversity-trends?utm_source=mergermarket&utm_medium=partner-referrals

Epsiode recorded - 16 November 2023

In this weeks’ episode we’re finding out about renewable energy M&A in the LATAM region. Renewable energy and the energy transition are never far from the headlines particularly with COP28 on the horizon and there’s one region that is ahead of many others when it comes to renewable energy and that’s Latin America. Joining Julie-Anna Needham is Priscilla Murphy who is a journalists and editor for Mergermarket.

There has been a big drop in corporate divestments in the US after a active start to the year but how does this compare to previous years and what are the hot sectors?
Joining Julie-Anna Needham is James Ward who is a reporter for Mergermarket.

In this weeks’ special episode, Julie-Anna Needham is joined by Vice President of Global Product Marketing and Strategy at SS&C Intralinks, Matthew Wells who will provide an exclusive preview of global M&A activity through the findings of Intralinks’s Q4 2023 edition of their Deal Flow Predictor.

Link to the Deal Flow Predictor Q4 2023 can be found here:
https://www3.intralinks.com/DFP-Q4-2023?utm_source=mergermarket&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=7015d000002qxph