How corporate finance is shaping capital raising, driving transactions and supporting business transformation to help economies adapt. This theme will include:

• Geopolitics and the international regulation of capital markets, cross-border takeovers, national security and foreign investment
• Corporate transaction opportunities and deal origination
• New national public investment programmes, recapitalisation and restructuring
• Private equity, buy-outs, buy-and-build and growth capital
• Public-to-private deals and equity capital markets
• Corporate strategies, risk and transaction services

How corporate finance is boosting entrepreneurship, business expansion and novel approaches to meet the economic, technological, environmental and social challenges of the 2020s.

• Growth finance, debt advisory and banking
• Corporate turnarounds and restructuring
• Infrastructure investment and government policy
• Green finance, renewable energy, clean technologies and climate change
• ESG and corporate finance
• Start-ups, scale-ups and venture capital
• Innovation investment
• Funding the creative industries
• Social enterprise and impact investing

How professionals involved in corporate finance are developing expertise, new skills and new technologies to advise businesses, ensure successful investment and effective deal-making.

• Company strategy and corporate finance
• Careers in investment, innovation and sustainability
• Chartered accountants and advisory careers
• Promoting greater diversity
• Artificial intelligence in corporate transactions
• Cyber security in M&A
• Changing regulation of professional services
• Thinking globally
• New ways of working beyond the COVID-19 crisis.