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UK UPDATE – Understanding and Dealing with Hedge Funds and Shareholder Activism Across Europe: The Impact of the Financial Crisis

Published on: May 16 2012
Contributed by: Nigel Boardman, Slaughter and May (London)

Executive summary:

The attached guide takes a pan-European look at trends and developments through the 2008 financial crisis and in the period since, focusing on:

  • the position of hedge funds: their behaviour, performance and strategies in that period, as well as the changed regulatory landscape they now face, and
  • activist behaviour by both hedge funds and other investors during that period.

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Editors’ Note:  Contributed by Nigel Boardman, a partner at Slaughter and May and a founding director of XBMA.  Mr. Boardman is one of the leading M&A lawyers in the UK with broad experience in a wide range of cross-border transactions.

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