Speakers: The M&A Summit 2026

Derek Shakespeare
Director General
The Takeover Panel

Will Pearce
Partner, Co-Head of Europe
Davis Polk

Joel Bamford
Executive Director
Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority

Chris Emmerson
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Gary Weiss
Chairman of EMEA M&A
Bank of America

Michael Nicholson
Head of Advisory and M&A
Peel Hunt

Harrison George
Director, UK Investment Banking
Evercore

John Messent
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Michael Stiasny
Head of UK Equities
M&G

Gordon Milne
Partner
Davis Polk

Chris Kinder
Chief Executive
The Investor Forum

This event should be attended by M&A practitioners in banks, corporates, private equity and private credit, finance directors, heads of strategy, general counsel, heads of legal and company secretaries. It will also be of interest to institutional investors, M&A and competition lawyers in private practice, specialist accountants, corporate brokers and other relevant advisors.
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