M&A activity has been hard hit by COVID-19, either deals have stopped, we’re seeing opportunism in the market, or ongoing transactions are coming to some form of post-COVID completion. Any market volatility tends to lead to disputes, although the nature of the disputes changes.
In this webinar, Jonathan Humphrey presents his experience with M&A disputes in the current economic climate and discusses the new shape of disputes and the challenges to assessing damages.
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Covid-19 has changed the landscape of M&A disputes. There has been a large increase in failure to complete claims due to the changing economic landscape while, post-transaction, there is a focus on closing price adjustments and claims relating to failure to disclose or fraud.”Jonathan Paul Humphrey, Partner, HKA