European Research provides independent research on current Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Markets.
European Research has two products covering Mergers and Acquisitions in Europe and the Rest of The World, with the exception of the US.
European Merger
An Unbiased Detailed Analysis of European M&A Transactions
The team of analysts leverages its experience in European M&A to deliver a powerful service.
The service covers M&A deals with targets in Europe for announced transactions and for selected potential bids.
- All announced deals for which the market capitalization of the target is greater than €500 million are covered in detail (except in exceptional cases where liquidity is too small to justify coverage)
- The markets covered are the European Union, Switzerland and Norway
- Both announced transactions and for selected potential bids.
- Selected, tradeable, deals below this threshold may also be covered
- Pre-announced deals are regularly covered on a selective basis
The analysis of deals includes
- Terms of the offer
- Conditions attached to the offer
- Offer timetable
- Risk analysis
- Takeover regulation (for the target)
- Potential competition and regulatory issues, and other potential issues
- Rationale for the deal
- Valuation of the target
- Value of the target to the bidder
European Research analysts are fluent in a range of European language, and have developed expertise in regulation, competition and takeover regulation across the European markets.
- Internal expertise is supplemented by contact with lawyers and regulators in the individual markets.
On individual deals European Merger will provide:
- Initial Reports: Generally produced on the day of announcement
- The initial report gives an in depth description of the deal (as described above)
- Follow up Reports : Ongoing M&A transactions are actively monitored.
- European Merger publishes follow-up reports covering developments in individual deals.
- Internal expertise is supplemented by contact with lawyers and regulators in the individual markets.
In addition European Merger produces regular updates on the progress of deals
- Daily Note: Published each morning, the Daily Note provides headlines of developments in existing deals and new situations.
- Calendar: A weekly publication that provides a timetable of historic and forward looking dates for each of the deals in Global Merger’s coverage.
- Deal Status Report: A weekly report that outlines the current status of all of the deals being covered.
- Discounts and Estimated Returns : A weekly publication providing current discounts, estimated settlement dates and estimated annualized returns for each of the deals in European Merger’s current coverage.
Subscribers to European Merger have access to:
- The European Research website: The website contains a library of European Research reports.
- European Merger clients can search the website and download European Merger publications.
- Contact with Authors: Subscribers to European Merger have personal telephone contact with its authors. This is an enormous value-added aspect of the service. Authors will spend a significant portion of their day discussing pertinent aspects of deals that European Merger is currently covering.
- European Merger will also analyse transactions that are below its minimum market capitalization criterion on a case by case basis for clients.
Global Merger
An Unbiased Detailed Analysis of Global M&A Transactions
The team of analysts leverages its experience in Global M&A to deliver a powerful service.
The service covers M&A deals where the target is outside the US and Europe
- Markets covered include
- South Africa, Australia, Canada and New Zealand
- Hong Kong, China, Singapore and other South East Asian countries
- Russia and Eastern Europe
In general coverage will include liquid transactions where the target has a market capitalization of over US$1 billion
- Both announced transactions and for selected potential bids.
- Selected, tradable, deals below this threshold may also be covered
- Pre-announced deals are regularly covered on a selective basis
The analysis of deals includes
- Terms of the offer
- Conditions attached to the offer
- Offer timetable
- Risk analysis
- Takeover regulation (for the target)
- Potential competition and regulatory issues, and other potential issues
- Rationale for the deal
- Valuation of the target
- Value of the target to the bidder
Global Merger analysts have developed expertise in regulation, competition and takeover regulation across markets.
- Internal expertise is supplemented by contact with lawyers and regulators in the individual markets.
On individual deals Global Merger will provide:
- Initial Reports: Generally produced on the announcement day (or on the day after announcement if necessary)
- The initial report gives a detailed description of the deal (as described above)
- Follow up Reports : Ongoing M&A transactions are actively monitored.
- Global Merger publishes follow-up reports covering developments in individual deals.
In addition Global Merger produces regular weekly updates on the progress of deals
- Daily Note: Published each morning, the Daily Note provides headlines of developments in existing deals and new situations.
- Calendar: A weekly publication that provides a timetable of historic and forward looking dates for each of the deals in Global Merger’s coverage.
- Deal Status Report: A report which outlines current status of all of deals.
- Discounts and Estimated Returns : A weekly publication providing current discounts, estimated settlement dates and estimated annualized returns for each of the deals in Global Merger’s current coverage.
Subscribers to Global Merger have access to:
- The European Research website: The website contains a library of European Research reports.
- Global Merger clients can search the website and download Global Merger publications.
- Contact with Authors: Subscribers to Global Merger have personal telephone contact with its authors. is an enormous value-added aspect of the service. Authors will spend a significant portion of their day discussing pertinent aspects of any deal that Global Merger is currently covering
- Global Merger will also analyse transactions that are below its minimum market capitalization criterion on a case by case basis for clients
