Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce and partner and Mergers & Acquisitions co-chair Louis Goldberg are contributing editors of Lexology’s Panoramic: Private M&A 2025 guide (previously Getting the Deal Through Private M&A), a comprehensive overview of the laws, regulation and market practice governing private M&A transactions in 26 jurisdictions worldwide.

Davis Polk contributed jurisdictional chapters for the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong, as well as articles exploring the similarities and differences between UK and US private M&A transactions and acquisition agreements, the regulatory roadblocks to private M&A transactions and how to incentivise management teams following an acquisition.

Davis Polk contributed chapters

Hong Kong chapter

Incentivising management teams following an acquisition

Private M&A transactions: Comparing U.K. and U.S. practice

Regulatory roadblocks to private M&A transactions

United Kingdom chapter

United States chapter
 

Editorial and chapters reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. Lexology Panoramic Series: Private M&A 2025 (published in September 2024; contributing editors: Will Pearce and Louis Goldberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP). For further information please visit https://www.lexology.com/panoramic