Simon Allport

Bird & Bird

Simon is a partner in Bird & Bird's international corporate group. Based in London, he advises on a wide range of public and private M&A transactions and equity capital markets transactions. Simon has an intimate knowledge of the UK's Takeover Code, having been seconded to the Takeover Panel earlier in his career and has advised numerous clients in a variety of sectors over the years on both hostile and recommended deals. Simon also advises both corporates and financial advisers on a wide range of general corporate, company law and regulatory matters across the financial services, aviation, life sciences and media sectors. Simon is consistently ranked as a leading individual for Corporate Finance work by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500.

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Public M&A deals 2019—UK—Market Standards Trend Report

Practice notes

This Market Standards Trend Report was published in 2020 and is not maintained. It provides in-depth analysis of the 66 firm offers and 45 possible offers made for quoted companies subject to the Takeover Code in 2019. It includes insight into public M&A trends and what was expected for 2020 and beyond.

Corporate

Public M&A deals 2020—UK—Market Standards Trend Report

Practice notes

This Market Standards Trend Report was published in 2021 and is not maintained. It provides in-depth analysis of the UK public M&A transactions announced in 2020. It includes insight into public M&A trends and what we and our contributors expected to see in 2021 and beyond.

Corporate