14th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Conference

20 Jan - 21 Jan 2025

Session information

Recent trends in M&A

Tuesday 21 January (1645 - 1800)

Description

1) Panellists will discuss the recent trend of companies taking steps to access US capital markets and support US listings and/or inclusion in US Market Indexes and the varied tax considerations that follow, including:

  • overview of some typical restructuring steps undertaken by companies to support such listing or inclusion;
  • consequences of restructuring, moving headquarters (management and control) or formally redomesticating from present jurisdiction to the US; and
  • stakeholder impacts.
2) Additionally, many US-formed companies will often reorganise or enter into transformative business combination transactions in the pursuit of capital in non-US jurisdiction or [other objectives]. Panellists will discuss:
  • application of the US anti-inversion rules to redomesticated US companies or new foreign (non-US) parent company;
  • consequences of an inverted company in the US and relevant non-US jurisdiction(s); and
  • challenges faced by both US and non-US stakeholders receiving distributions from or participating in reorganisation transactions involving an inverted US company.

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Francesco Gucciardo Aird & Berlis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Co-Chair, Taxes Committee

Speakers

Devon Bodoh Weil Gotshal & Manges, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Olivier Dauchez Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I., Paris, France
Reto Heuberger Homburger AG, Zürich, Switzerland
Mike Lane Slaughter and May, London, England
Elissa Romanin MinterEllison, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Treasurer, Taxes Committee
Matthias Scheifele Hengeler Mueller, Munich, Germany
Katharina Schindler Schindler Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Vienna, Austria