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J.P. Morgan’s Swiss Push: Corporate Banking Growth Drivers, Regulatory Landscape & What’s Next

Europe Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

J.P. Morgan is moving Lutz Karl to Zurich on ...

The expansion targets openings created by Cre...

J.P. Morgan is scaling broadly in Switzerland...

Growth will be tested by tighter Swiss regula...

EU Must Tackle Risk Perception to Unleash Startup Growth Through 28th Regime & Scaleup Fund

Europe Policy Other Investment Pools and Funds

Europe’s main start-up bottleneck is systemic...

With public actors already supplying a large ...

The EU’s Startup & Scaleup Strategy (28th Reg...

Proposed levers include success-contingent fu...

Europe’s Mid-Market PE Rebound: Dry Powder, AI & Green Catalysts Fuel 2026 Surge

Europe Forecast Other Investment Pools and Funds

Europes mid-market private equity heads into ...

Valuation multiples have reset to more invest...

Return opportunities cluster around AI-enable...

Key risks are delayed distributions from agei...

Private Equity Acquires €402M Champs-Élysées Mixed-Use Building: ESG & Retail Strategy in Paris

Europe M&A Lessors of Real Estate

Bain Capital, Revcap and Black Swan are acqui...

With a stripped interior and existing permit,...

The thesis is scarce large-format flagship sp...

The redevelopment targets top ESG standards (...

Apollo’s European Strategy: Shifting Leadership Toward Credit & Insurance, Scaling Back Private Equity

Europe Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

Apollo is seeking a new head of Europe after ...

The firm is pivoting from leveraged buyouts t...

With about $900bn in assets and roughly $185b...

Europe is a priority market as underdeveloped...

Evercore’s £146 M Robey Warshaw Deal & Major Hires Cement European Advisory Power

Europe Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Evercore is rapidly expanding in Europe throu...

The Robey Warshaw deal adds elite UK advisory...

Evercore has recruited Rothschild European co...

The moves intensify competition among Europea...

Europe’s Insurance Distribution M&A Revives Unevenly: UK, France & Nordics Outpace Germany

Europe M&A Agencies, Brokerages, and Other Insurance Related Activities

Europe’s insurance distribution M&A was uneve...

Deal volumes were down year-on-year (373 tran...

Private equity dominated continental European...

Momentum is shifting away from large insurer ...

EU Clears Mars’ $X Billion Kellanova Deal – Strategy, Risks & Regulatory Hurdles

Europe M&A Food Manufacturing

The European Commission unconditionally appro...

Mars will pay about $36 billion (including as...

Regulators concluded the combined brand portf...

The deal closes December 11, 2025, creating a...

EU’s New Merger Control Puts Innovation & Investment at the Core of Competition Law

Europe Policy Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

The European Commission opened a May 2025 con...

The review would shift merger analysis toward...

Options include a unified counterfactual fram...

The Commission is also considering greater re...

Goldman Sachs Tops EMEA Investment Banking in H1 2025, Reshaping Global Strategy

Europe Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Goldman Sachs led EMEA investment banking by ...

Its biggest jump came in the UK, where it ros...

US banks now take about 37% of EMEA investmen...

Leadership reshuffles and a sharper focus on ...