I, Philippe Cerf, of Martello Expert Services, Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton Street, London EC2N 2AT, have been instructed by Clifford Chance LLP to provide a summary of the principal considerations surrounding the acquisition and takeover of a UK public company.
I joined Credit Suisse in London as a Managing Director in the M&A Group, where I initially worked as a generalist M&A advisor while retaining coverage responsibility for a number of accounts principally in the technology space.
There are no legal provisions such as poison pills or dual classes of shares to give the Target board additional negotiation leverage or the ability to block a transaction that is deemed unsatisfactory to the board.9
Qualifications & Education: • Harvard Business School, Master of Business Administration (MBA) HEC Paris Non-Executive & Advisory: • Areas of Expertise Investment Banking • • Mergers and Acquisitions (Private and Public Transactions, Domestic and Crossborder, Buyside, Sellside, Fairness Opinions, Independent Valuations, LBOs, JVs, Recapitalisations) • Corporate Finance (Debt and Equity Advisory, Leveraged Finance, IPOs, Equity Block Trades) Industry Focus: Technology •
He joined Credit Suisse in London as a Managing Director in the M&A Group, initially working as a generalist M&A advisor while retaining coverage responsibility for a number of accounts principally in the technology space.