NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Deal, a
business unit of TheStreet (NASDAQ: TST), will bring its popular
forecasting conference to Europe
for the first time this spring to examine the future of The City in
London as Britain triggers its
historic Brexit. 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 European
Union.
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
"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
relationship mapping service of corporate directors and officers;
and RateWatch (www.rate-watch.com) which supplies rate and fee data
from banks and credit unions across the U.S.
Contact: Nicole Harris,
212.321.5567, Nicole Harris at
thestreet.com
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