NEW YORK, March 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Deal, a
business unit of TheStreet (NASDAQ: TST), will host the
latest in its series of global investment conferences in the heart
of the City of London next week,
just days before Britain begins its formal exit from the European
Union, ending forty years of ties with the world's biggest trading
bloc and triggering the most significant corporate and financial
market challenge in more than half a century.
The Deal Economy UK: Predictions & Perspectives for
2017 will take place on March
20th at The Waldorf
Hilton in London to discuss how British boards of
directors and banking and legal advisers will navigate the coming
two-year negotiations to pull the UK out of the EU
and, even more crucially, the landscape of the world's
fifth-largest economy after its historic 'Brexit'.
Speakers will include:
- The Right Honourable Lord Lamont of Lerwick, former Chancellor of the
Exchequer
- Steve Krouskos, Global Vice
Chair, Transaction Advisory Services, EY
- Michel De Fabiani,
Vice-President, Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry,
Non-Executive Director, Valeo
- David Marsh, Managing Director
and Co-Founder, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum
(OMFIF)
- The Right Honourable John Redwood, MP
- Jim Strang, Managing Director,
Investment Committee Europe, Hamilton Lane
- James J. Cramer, Founder of
TheStreet, Inc.; best-selling author; Host, "Mad Money with
Jim Cramer" and Co-Anchor of "Squawk
on The Street," CNBC
- Christophe Baviere, CEO and
Managing Partner, Idinvest Partners
"Britain is bracing for perhaps the most significant
geopolitical change it has faced in more than half a century,"
said Tara Murphy, Editor in Chief of TheStreet,
Inc. "The Deal will be at the heart of this historic change,
examining both the players who will define it and the landscape it
will create."
The agenda will explore London's current role as an
M&A dealmaking hub and the regulatory
uncertainty UK companies will face in post-Brexit
economy. Panel discussions will include:
- Has London already lost its
"Deal Hub" status? London lost
more than half of its deal flow last year (2016 vs. 2015) to rivals
in Paris, Rome and Madrid as leveraged buyout players scattered
their business around various European capitals. Will Brexit taint
the City indefinitely?
- The Reality of a Post-Brexit Economy: A £250 million
company is now worth $72 million less
than it did on June 23rd.
Does that 20% discount make up for the deeply uncertain future that
UK companies face post-Brexit?
- Article 50: Dealmaking Friend or Foe? When Britain
triggers Article 50, it will have at least two years of regulatory
and economic uncertainty as the government withdraws from certain
European rules and establishes its own framework. Will the
timeclock accelerate deals or put them on ice for two years?
- Corporates vs. Activists: Activist funds have
$28 billion in assets under
management, targeting nearly as many companies in H1 2016 as in all
of 2015. Will Britain's new economic
reality entice a new wave of shareholder activism? How should UK
corporate board members react?
- Post-Brexit Tech/FinTech Opportunities: With big US tech
firms such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft all finding themselves
at the business end of the EU's tax and competition rules, could a
post-Brexit London establish itself as a global technology hub with
looser regulations and tax-friendly structures that would offset
any departures of the country's biggest banks?
The full speaker roster and agenda can be viewed
at www.thedeal.com/dealeconomyuk. Keep up to date with the
event by following @TheDealNewsroom and use hashtag #dealeconomy to
join the conversation.
The Deal Economy UK conference is supported by program
underwriter EY.
To purchase tickets to attend the conference, please visit
The Deal Economy UK site.
For press tickets, please contact Nicole
Harris (212.321.5567; nharris@thedeal.com). For
information on how your organization can underwrite the event,
please contact Emily Newman at 212.321.5565
(enewman@thedeal.com).
About The Deal
The Deal (www.thedeal.com)
provides actionable, intraday coverage of mergers, acquisitions and
all other changes in corporate control to institutional investors,
private equity, hedge funds and the firms that serve them. The Deal
is a business unit of TheStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ:
TST, www.t.st), a leading financial news and information
provider. Other business units include TheStreet
(www.thestreet.com), which is celebrating its
20th year of producing unbiased business news and
market analysis; BoardEx (www.boardex.com), the leading
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and RateWatch (www.rate-watch.com) which supplies rate and fee data
from banks and credit unions across the U.S.
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