Opinion-in-brief: Politics more important than ever for deal-making Opinion-in-brief This week the Government gained new powers to impose conditions on, block or reverse certain investments. No one could reasonably disagree with the intention behind the National Security and Investment Act, but its breadth and depth are striking – estimates suggest a fifty-fold increase in transactions scrutinised. More broadly, it illustrates a tension in current [...]
CEOs who weighed into GB News learnt a valuable lesson on the power of politics If CEOs learn anything from the campaign to boycott GB News and the fallout generated by companies’ responses, it is that they ignore politics at their peril. Over the last half-century, one of the most important shifts in the business world has been corporate leaders recognising they have wider responsibilities to society as well as [...]