What are the prospects for European M&A in 2023?

Managing Director, Head of European Investment Banking, Raymond James

Caroline is a corporate M&A partner at global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, based in London. Caroline has 16 years' experience advising UK listed and international corporates on acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures, with a particular focus on public takeovers across a range of sectors. Caroline also advises boards of listed companies on governance issues and is a member of the Company Law Committee of the City of London Law Society. Caroline, who topped the UK M&A lawyer rankings by deal value in 2021, is recognised by the Legal 500 as a Leading Individual in the upper mid-market and premium deals category and by The Lawyer's Hot 100 for "her legal prowess in major public takeovers".

Mr. Becker is a Partner and Co-President of Perella Weinberg Partners, based in London. Mr. Becker has served as Head of PWP’s Advisory business in Europe since 2017. Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners at the firm’s foundation in 2006, Mr. Becker served as Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Global Industrial Group and as one of the firm’s most senior German investment bankers. He began his investment banking career with Merrill Lynch in 1991. Mr. Becker has been involved, in a leading role, in a broad range of M&A transactions involving some of Germany’s leading companies and industrial clients worldwide. His specific focus is on public market M&A transactions, raid and activist defense and the strategic transformation of industrial manufacturing companies. He frequently represents target companies in public offer situations or advises on large, complex merger transactions involving multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Becker received a degree from Cologne University Law School and a Masters in Business Administration from New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. He serves as a member of the Executive Board of the NYU Stern School of Business.

Markus is Head of Central Europe (DACH), CEE and CIS for Datasite. He has been accompanying the transformation to Datasite for more than 6 years now and has been leading the Frankfurt office since 2017. Previously, he mainly worked in the financial market, as Sales Manager Europe for Trading Technologies and as Account Manager for Thomson Reuters. He graduated from Purdue University in the USA with an Executive MBA and co-founded the technology start-up Evo Fintech in 2016.