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Equity Cap­it­al Mar­kets
Navigating the world of equity capital markets can be complex. Whether you are looking to take your company public, raise capital or simply keep up wi
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Mer­gers & Ac­quis­i­tions
The successful execution of a Mergers & Acquisition transaction, whether sell-side or buy-side, requires lawyers who understand their clients` bus
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Deal De­lib­er­a­tions
Com­mit­ting your busi­ness to a deal is one of the biggest de­cisions any busi­ness own­er, ex­ec­ut­ive or board can make. But once that stra­tegic choice is made, the suc­cess of the deal de­pends on a mul­ti­tude of factors. That is the ra­tionale be­hind Deal D
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31/05/2023
CMS ad­vises ORB In­nov­a­tions on ac­quis­i­tion by Glidewell
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Lon­don-based start-up ORB In­nov­a­tions on its ac­quis­i­tion by dent­al in­dustry lead­er Glidewell.Foun­ded in 2017, ORB In­nov­a­tions has de­veloped a unique health tech­no­logy...
News
18/05/2023
CMS UK RE­ITs
CMS is the No.1 law firm for RE­ITs.  The CMS RE­ITs team in­cludes spe­cial­ists in the fol­low­ing ex­pert­ise areas:Real Es­tate­Cor­por­ate Fin­an­ceTaxReg­u­lat­ory­Bank­ing Changes in UK tax law and in­vestor pref­er­ence...
Publication
23/05/2023
ESG in­vestor at­ti­tudes to ESG data and what they mean for busi­nesses
Over the last few years, we have seen a raft of new re­quire­ments on busi­nesses of all types to col­lect data on their en­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial and gov­ernance activ­it­ies. ESG dis­clos­ures are a huge chal­lenge...
Event Webinar
27/04/2023
CMS ad­vises Land­sec on ac­quis­i­tion of re­main­ing 50% of share of St Dav­id’s...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised long­stand­ing cli­ent Land­sec, the UK’s largest com­mer­cial prop­erty de­vel­op­ment and in­vest­ment com­pany, on the ac­quis­i­tion of the re­main­ing 50% of share of St Dav­id’s...
News
27/04/2023
CMS ad­vises Red­burn and Roth­schild & Co on the mer­ger of Red­burn and At­lantic...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is ad­vising Red­burn (Europe) and Roth­schild & Co on the mer­ger of the op­er­a­tions of Red­burn (Europe) and At­lantic Equit­ies, un­der the own­er­ship of Roth­schild & Co.  The com­bin­a­tion...
News
14/04/2023
Re­view of the Seni­or Man­agers and Cer­ti­fic­a­tion Re­gime (SM&CR)
On 30 March 2023, the Pruden­tial Reg­u­la­tion Au­thor­ity (“PRA”) and Fin­an­cial Con­duct Au­thor­ity (“FCA”) (the PRA and FCA to­geth­er be­ing the “Reg­u­lat­ors”) pub­lished a joint Dis­cus­sion Pa­per (DP1/23)...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
12/04/2023
Stock­take a year on: how the UK Na­tion­al Se­cur­ity re­gime ap­plies to the...
The UK Gov­ern­ment views the en­ergy sec­tor as a crit­ic­al part of the eco­nomy. Des­pite the Na­tion­al Se­cur­ity and In­vest­ment Act 2021 (“NSIA”) only hav­ing been in full force for just over a year now...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
24/03/2023
CMS ad­vises Brook­field on ac­quis­i­tion of stake in X-ELIO
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS ad­vised Brook­field Re­new­able (Brook­field), one of the world’s largest pub­licly traded, pure-play re­new­able power plat­forms, on its ac­quis­i­tion of a fur­ther 50% stake in glob­al...
News
22/03/2023
CMS European M&A Study 2023
The CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group is pleased to launch the 15th edi­tion of the European M&A Study
Publication
07/03/2023
CMS ad­vises DIF Cap­it­al Part­ners on ac­quis­i­tion of port­fo­lio of co-loc­ated...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised in­de­pend­ent in­fra­struc­ture fund man­ager DIF Cap­it­al Part­ners on its ac­quis­i­tion of a green­field port­fo­lio of ready-to-build co-loc­ated sol­ar and bat­tery stor­age...
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24/02/2023
CMS ad­vises on fun­drais­ing by AIM-lis­ted Sig­maRoc
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Liber­um Cap­it­al as nom­in­ated ad­viser and joint book­run­ner, and Peel Hunt and Red­burn as joint book­run­ners, on the suc­cess­ful £30m fun­drais­ing by AIM-lis­ted Sig­maRoc...
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21/02/2023
UK reg­u­lat­or joins the glob­al en­force­ment trend and warns em­ploy­ers to...
The over­lap between em­ploy­ees’ rights and com­pet­i­tion law has long been pre­dicted by com­pet­i­tion spe­cial­ists. Car­tel en­force­ment in la­bour mar­ket agree­ments be­came a fledgling activ­ity of com­pet­i­tion...
Law-Now Private Equity
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