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Join Goodmans Partner Jon Feldman at the IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025 for the session, “Mergers: practical issues in international M&A deals” taking place Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
This interactive panel session will discuss how a tougher merger control environment across multitude multiple jurisdictions will affect corporate deal documentation and negotiation. The panel will discuss practical issues including devising a multi-jurisdictional merger filing strategy, conditions precedent, how to deal with mergers below thresholds, how to allocate risk (hell or high water clauses, break fees and antirust risk allocation), timelines, and gun-jumping rules.
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