Thursday, 12 March 2026
Learning Objectives:
- Understand current M&A trends and the key legal and commercial considerations involved in structuring and planning successful transactions
- Apply practical strategies when preparing term sheets, scoping due diligence, managing regulatory and W&I insurance considerations, and navigating cross-border transactions
Current Trends in M&A
- Setting your client up for success
- Terms sheets: when, why and how to use them, key terms, binding vs non-binding provisions, alignment of expectations, early risk management
- Project planning: aligning legal strategy with commercial drivers, regulatory considerations, scoping due diligence, W&I insurance considerations
- Cross-border considerations
Presented by Juliet Short, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
Chair
Kate Telford, Partner, Hesketh Henry
Presenters
Kate Telford, Partner, Hesketh HenryKate Telford, Partner, Hesketh Henry Kate is a partner in Hesketh Henry’s Corporate and Commercial Team. She advises clients on a wide range of commercial transactions and agreements across a variety of different industry sectors, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and corporate governance advice. Kate regularly advises clients on business acquisitions, disposals, and investment transactions, bringing clarity and a common-sense approach to high value commercial decisions. In addition, Kate has extensive experience advising clients on complex and high value commercial agreements, such as joint venture and shareholder agreements, limited partnership agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, warehousing and logistics agreements, and licensing agreements. She also supports clients with corporate governance advice, including compliance with key legislation such as the Companies Act, Co-operative Companies Act, Fair Trading Act, Consumer Guarantees Act, Takeovers Code, Financial Markets Conduct Act and Overseas Investment Act. She is a director of Project Employ Limited, a charitable organisation helping young people with disabilities gain meaningful employment and provides ongoing pro bono legal support to that initiative.
Juliet Short, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Juliet specialises in corporate and commercial law, advising on business establishments and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and the drafting and negotiating of commercial contracts. She has extensive experience both in private practice and in-house across a range of industries including insurance, primary industries, technology, and manufacturing. With experience working in-house on secondment in the insurance and primary industries sectors, you will benefit from Juliet’s practical and commercially-focused advice.
