Pension deficit expected to hit M&A market

Close Brothers Corporate Finance has recently predicted that the pension shortfalls and new regulations could hold back the volume of mergers and acquisitions in the UK in 2005. This is because private equity firms will be unwilling to work with companies that have shortfalls in their pension funds. According to Close Brothers, the majority of the company owners, including institutional shareholders, directors and private equity investors, have barely a limited understanding of the implications of the replacement of OPRA by The Pensions Regulator from the Pension Act 2004.

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