Kepler Partners' Ryan Lightfoot-Aminoff: When shareholders fight back on M&A bids

'Bid activity has been rife'

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M&A has been a recurring story in the UK over the past couple of years; however, more recently, there have been a number of examples of shareholders pushing back on bids.

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