Cross border Mergers & Acquisitions

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Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Inflexion on its agreement to acquire Marioff, a global leader in high-pressure water mist fire suppression. The investment is being made by Inflexion’s Buyout Fund VI and is the seventh investment that Inflexion has made in the Nordic region.

Travers Smith has advised Verdane, the European investment firm, on the financing arrangements for its acquisition of a majority stake in Smartbox Group, a UK-headquartered global leader specialist technology designed to support individuals with speech and communication challenges.

Welcome to the first edition of Travers Smith's Crisis Management and Investigations Circular, providing a bite-size round-up of recent developments in the world of crisis management and investigations.

In this four minute video, we discuss some of the key pitfalls with those mundane – but often quite important – clauses in commercial agreements known as boilerplate. Sarah Robinson, Nick Brady, Mike Ross and Jonathan Rush explain some of the key points to watch out for.

Ahead of the introduction of the new renters' rights regime on 1 May 2026, the Government has laid several new sets of regulations to tie up the loose ends and allow the regime to function smoothly.  This short briefing gives an overview of the most recent statutory updates.

While a far cry from the sweeping GDPR compliance uplift of 2018, trustees are nonetheless faced with a new series of data protection and e-privacy reforms under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) – most of which came into effect on 5 February 2026. The DUAA was a long time in the making and despite receiving Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, the various changes are being phased in over time via secondary legislation.

The outbreak of war in the Middle East has delivered a series of economic and operational shocks and a stark reminder of the fragility of global supply chains. For businesses, the conflict has not only intensified immediate financial, logistical and operational pressures, but also highlighted the critical importance of: