Recent Insights

Key legal developments in 2021 and their implications for Taiwan

The UK has left the EU but there remains a vast array of operational and legal issues for businesses to address. See below for our perspectives on the key challenges and opportunities that Brexit presents for different industries and sectors.

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to escalate, ensuring wellbeing of employees is paramount, but it is not the only challenge. There is a vast sway of operational and legal issues that businesses must address, too.

It's not just the rate of change. Our World in Transition hub focuses on the potential for transformation in energy, ESG, finance, globalization and US policy.  

An increase in megadeals reveals growing dealmaker appetite within Italy's M&A market

The region's burgeoning digital economy is drawing attention from investors across the globe  

We highlight the key European M&A trends in the first half of 2021, and provide our insights into the outlook for M&A moving forward.

The SPAC phenomenon has spread to Israel, where regulators have laid the foundation for local SPAC IPOs as well  

The huge surge in IPO fundraising by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) on US stock exchanges may be showing the first signs of slowing down, but momentum behind European SPAC activity is only just starting to gather pace.

The mining & metals industry is critical to the success of the world's transition towards net zero, both in reducing its own carbon footprint and providing the materials that will deliver a cleaner and more sustainable future

Lifting pandemic restrictions, coupled with successful vaccination rollouts in the Gulf and an improving economic outlook, supported a rebound in loan and bond activity in the Middle East in the first half of 2021

ESG-linked financing issuance swelled in 2021, with issuers responding to the rapid growth in investor demand for environmental and socially-linked debt issuance

Strong refinancing appetite sustains the high yield bond market in the Asia-Pacific region despite a slowdown in real estate issuance in China.

Take private activity reached a decade high in the first half of 2021, fueled by large sums of dry powder and heated competition for assets.

H1 2021 dealmaking within the continent appears to be turning a corner  

Companies focused on broader public benefits and ESG principles face unique issues in international trade disputes.

Loan issuance from Indian borrowers has tailed off because of rising COVID-19 infections, but high-profile mega-deal financings have given lenders and borrowers cause for optimism  

Lender caution following Zambia’s debt repayment default in 2020 has weighed on African debt issuance, but successful raisings by high profile borrowers show that investor appetite remains resilient

Debt markets warm to issuers from a broader range of sectors, maintaining high levels of refinancing activity  

PE is breaking records, notably in the education sector

The region's largest economies—Brazil and Mexico—lead the dealmaking revival

For the first time in years, inflation is on the radar for high yield bond and leveraged loan lenders and borrowers—but how might it impact markets?

FPSOs have revolutionized deep-water oil extraction but these technically complex vessels are a fertile ground for uncertainty, spiraling costs and long delays

Borrowers take advantage of hot loan and high yield bond markets to lock in M&A and leveraged buyout financing at attractive terms and pricing

PE investors stand ready to fund spinoffs of non-core assets as companies refocus for the recovery

Refinancing activity supports a double-digit year-on-year uptick in leveraged loan issuance in the United States and Europe, while mega-deals dominate in the Asia-Pacific region.  

In an increasingly interconnected world, cyber risk is firmly at the top of the boardroom agenda, and having an effective data breach response programme is no longer optional.

What will drive issuance in a post-COVID-19 world?

US M&A set a new record for value in H1 2021—and nearly surpassed the full-year figure for 2020

Investors are finding businesses showing resilience

Low interest rates and high levels of liquidity are fueling transformational M&A deals  

Plentiful liquidity supports a year-on-year rise in high yield bond issuance in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region  

The pandemic seems to have prompted people to rethink their attitudes toward sharing personal data, particularly when it is used to manage public health and provide essential services. Can this shift serve as a catalyst for smart city adoption?

A brightening macroeconomic outlook and supportive deal environment helped push second-quarter value to a new record.

Increasing cooperation between global PE players is pushing up price tags  

Three pillars are at the heart of global efforts to boost sustainability and make our built environment cleaner, greener and more socially responsible: construction, energy and technology. These three industries have come to be intricately connected in an era of transformation on a scale never seen before.

Insights from our M&A team, based on M&A activity charts from the White & Case M&A Explorer.

The White & Case Debt Explorer is an interactive tool that puts a wealth of leveraged finance data and more at your fingertips.

Steel is essential to every aspect of modern life, yet its future finds itself centre stage in the climate change debate. Can advances in green steel technologies, fuelled by innovative investments from miners and steel producers, become an age-defining development in the energy transition?