Unbiased, Comprehensive Analysis of European M&A Transactions
Indepedent Global Research, an independent institutional research service based in London, brings together invaluable insight and in-depth analysis on European mergers and acquisitions.
The service covers M&A deals with targets in Europe for announced transactions and for selected potential bids.
- All announced deals for which the market capitalization of the target is greater than €500 million are covered in detail, except in exceptional cases where liquidity is too small to justify coverage.
- Coverage is primarily within the European Union, Switzerland and Norway
- Announced transactions as well as potential bids are analyzed and published upon.
- Certain deals below this threshold may also be covered
The analysis of deals includes
- Terms of the proposed transaction
- Offer conditions and timetable
- Risk analysis
- Competition regulation
- Takeover regulation
- Political risk
- Rationale for the deal
- Valuation of the target
Independent Global Research analysts are fluent in a range of European languages, and have developed expertise in regulation, competition and takeover regulation across the European markets. Internal expertise is supplemented by a deep network of lawyers, government officials and regulators. On individual deals European Merger will provide:
- Initial Reports: Generally produced on the day of announcement and will give an in depth description of the deal, as described above.
- Follow up Reports: Ongoing M&A transactions are actively monitored. Follow-up reports are routinely published on each deal under coverage.
In addition, The European Merger Report produces regular updates on the progress of deals
- Daily Note: Published each morning, the Daily Note provides headlines of developments in existing deals and new situations.
- Calendar: A weekly publication that provides a timetable of historic and forward looking dates for each of the deals in Global Merger’s coverage.
- Deal Status Report: A weekly report that outlines the current status of all of the deals being covered.
- Discounts and Estimated Returns: A weekly publication providing current discounts, estimated settlement dates and estimated annualized returns for each of the deals in European Merger’s current coverage.
Subscribers to The European Merger Report have access to:
- The Independent Global Research website: The website contains a library of Independent Global Research reports. European Merger Report clients can search the website and download from an archive of publications.
- Contact with Authors: Subscribers to The European Merger Report have unlimited access to the analysts. Authors will spend a significant portion of their day discussing pertinent aspects of deals under coverage.
- The European Merger Report will also analyse transactions that are below its minimum market capitalization criterion on a case by case basis for clients.
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