Anthropic's new AI model Mythos has found thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across global financial infrastructure and the people who run the world's banking system are seriously rattled. We break down what happened at the IMF spring meetings, why European banks have been locked out of the tool, and what it all means for tech transactions, financial regulation and disputes work. Then we look at the EU's plan to overhaul its merger rules for the first time in two decades, moving beyond the consumer welfare standard to weigh innovation, resilience and global competitiveness, and why the blocked Siemens-Alstom deal is still driving the debate.
Deal of the week is a clean public-to-private on AIM with Charterhouse Capital taking Animalcare private for 235 million pounds, a great example of schemes of arrangement, irrevocable undertakings and equity rollovers, with A&O Shearman and Squire Patton Boggs advising. Case of the week is an Ocado patent win at the European Patent Office on inventive step, and why it matters for a company whose entire business model depends on licensing its warehouse robotics technology.
Plus five in the news roundup including the IMF slashing global growth forecasts, Ticketmaster's antitrust loss, Amazon's $11.6 billion satellite play, Trump moving to replace Jerome Powell and Meta building an AI clone of Zuckerberg.
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