Topic: Bank M&A
ECB guidelines “facilitating” Spanish bank M&A as Unicaja and Liberbank merge
Portugal’s Novo Banco has divested its Spain-based businesses, while Spanish lenders Unicaja and Liberbank have won shareholder approval for their merger.
06 April 2021
Santander targets total ownership of Mexican unit, with Cleary advising
Spain’s Banco Santander is launching a bid to reacquire the remaining stake in the Mexican unit it sold almost a decade ago.
29 March 2021
Sullivan & Cromwell and Simpson Thacher advising on first Biden-era bank merger
New York-based M&T Bank has agreed to acquire People’s United in a US$7.6 billion deal – the first bank merger agreed since the Biden administration took office.
24 February 2021
Darrois Villey advising as BPCE seeks Natixis squeeze-out
French bank BPCE has filed with French regulators to take total control of its investment banking subsidiary Natixis.
10 February 2021
Baker McKenzie advising on three-way shariah bank merger
The three Islamic finance subsidiaries of Indonesia’s largest state-owned banks have merged to create Indonesia’s largest shariah financial institution.
02 February 2021
Lebanese banks sell Egyptian units amid capital requirements push
Freshfields, Baker McKenzie and Dechert are among the firms instructed in a pair of bank acquisition deals prompted by increased capital requirements from Lebanon’s central bank, with local banks Audi and Blom agreeing to sell off their Egyptian units.
25 January 2021
ECB consolidation guidelines overlook its own approval process
The European Central Bank’s supervisory guidance to facilitate bank consolidations in the EU has been labelled “a major disappointment”, for the absence of measures to address its own merger approval process.
13 January 2021
Crédit Agricole sells Romanian unit, with Clifford Chance advising
Clifford Chance is advising Crédit Agricole as it sells its Romanian business to Greek-owned bank Vista.
13 January 2021
Bangkok Bank integrates Indonesian branches after Permata M&A, with White & Case and Baker McKenzie advising
White & Case client Bangkok Bank has integrated its Indonesian branch business with local merger partner Bank Permata, following the first such transaction to get the green light under Indonesia's new M&A rules.
05 January 2021
Hong Kong regulator seeks to remedy “deteriorating” merger advice
Hong Kong’s securities watchdog has said it will raise the requirements for individuals advising on mergers and takeovers, after a rise in “unsatisfactory” work in recent years.
14 December 2020
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