Navigating International M&A Disputes: Insights and Strategies for 2025

As international deal activity surges in 2025, the seminar "Navigating International M&A Disputes: Insights and Strategies for 2025" aims to equip advisers with essential guidance for managing complex cross-border M&A disputes. This event will focus on helping advisers steer through challenging legal and factual post-deal scenarios, while their clients concentrate on achieving post-deal synergies and commercial objectives.

The panel, featuring experts with extensive experience in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, will offer actionable insights tailored to both buyers and sellers. Buyers will learn how to swiftly address perceived warranty breaches, while sellers will gain strategies for preparing robust defences. Given the high international deal activity anticipated in 2024, coupled with political disruptions and uneven economic forecasts, an increase in disputes is expected. Capital will likely flow towards underperforming economies seeking value and robust economies offering growth opportunities.

Key discussion points will include regional overviews, deal trends, and dispute predictions, as well as common dispute areas such as jurisdiction, tax, financial statements, accounting issues, law, and corporate governance. The panel will also explore regional differences in dispute resolution mechanisms, including arbitration, pre-arbitration ADR, expert determination, and litigation. Additionally, the role of the quantum expert in assessing the merits of M&A disputes will be highlighted.

The seminar will provide regional insights into critical M&A contract clauses that impact the choice of law, the nature of disputes, and their outcomes.