
Oscar Dean
Associate Director, Financial & Professional Services M&A at Grant Thornton UK specializing in insurance, claims, and regulated professional services including legal
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Jun 30, 2026
Peptides: The New Revolution? - Oska Dean Leading Interview
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Nick BianchiHOST
Why do you think, Oscar, some certain peptides haven't been approved by the regulators yet?

Oscar DeanGUEST
Peptides are naturally occurring molecules and you can't legally patent them because you can't own biology.

Oscar DeanGUEST
You have to synthesize them, obviously, and that requires, you know, careful process.

Oscar DeanGUEST
You know, you don't want to synthesize peptide and you might, you know, get contamination and heavy metals and that kind of thing.
Private equity and the future of law firms | Podcast special
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Oscar DeanGUEST
Yeah, so I guess if we look back over the last 10 years or so, you know, M&A transactions in legal services have been happening.

Oscar DeanGUEST
But typically what we've been seeing is mergers between LLPs at various ends of the market.

Oscar DeanGUEST
And I think what we've started to see, particularly past COVID, A number of private equity funds have had success in professional services more broadly, particularly accounting as the case study, but also sort of heavy consolidation plays in wealth, insurance broking, other sort of people-based regulated sectors.

Oscar DeanGUEST
And I think they've got comfortable with the concept of investing in businesses which are people-based and are now looking sort of further afield and seeing actually legal services is an enormous market.
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Oliver AttingerHOST
Oscar, where's the activity then at the moment? Because, you know, you'll be pretty close to
