Merger and Takeover in UK Law

  • Central and District Properties Ltd v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Mayo 1966
    ... ... 529,901 out of the units which they would receive if the proposed merger was completed. In each case Leadenhall paid 9s. 3d. per unit and undertook ... necessarily investigated in order to ascertain precisely how the takeover of Unicos by Central & District Properties Ltd. was effected. This is ... ...
  • Charles Stanley Group Plc
    • Chancery Division
    • 19 Enero 2022
    Fair scheme. General meeting of the company. Number of shareholders voting. Share warrants. Sanction hearing. Stock exchange
    ... ... 1 I have before me this application for the approval of a takeover scheme of arrangement (the Scheme ) under Part 26 of the Companies Act ... , there has been a change in the Company's share register, where merger-arbitrage hedge funds have acquired beneficial interests through prime ... ...
  • Aviation and Shipping Company v Murray
    • Court of Appeal
    • 09 Mayo 1961
    ... ... must be separately ascertained for up to three years after the takeover and added into the global Case I assessment on the trader ... 31 ... separate profits can be computed; and where there is absorption or merger no doubt some artifice has to be resorted to - for example, a proportion ... ...
  • Easynet Global Services Ltd v the Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2007
    • Chancery Division
    • 31 Octubre 2016
    ... ... a) that there is jurisdiction ultimately to confirm the merger; b) that there is no reason apparent at this stage why the court ... a lawful approach such as a scheme of arrangement to effect a takeover instead of the express contractual takeover provisions under a separate ... ...
  • Limitgood Ltd v R & C Commissioners and HM Revenue and Customs v Prizedome Ltd CA
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Marzo 2009
    ... ... the GL group is not changed to the date of the later GH group takeover of the GL group. The GH group is not “the relevant group” in relation ... group, you change the normal time of entry to the time of the merger. Having identified the relevant group and the time of entry you can then ... ...
  • Tulla Resources Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 23 Junio 2023
    Scheme of arrangement. Applicable legal principles. Previous judgment. Satisfaction of the jurisdictional requirements. Instrument of transfer
    ... ... the sanction of a scheme of arrangement referred to as “ the Takeover Scheme”. This application follows the sanctioning by the court on 19 ... precedent to the Takeover Scheme, as set out in clause 3.2 of the Merger Implementation Deed entered into between the Company and Pantoro have been ... ...
  • Ince Gordon Dadds LLP
    • First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)
    • 16 Enero 2023
    General costs. Small public company in consideration of the issue of new shares. Input tax. Taxable person. Economic activity. Taxable supplies
    ... ... VAT – Input tax incurred on professional fees associated with takeover bid – Input tax incurred by acquiring company before acquisition and ... access and potential capital raising ability for future trading and merger/takeover opportunities. It was the Directors [sic] intention to ... ...
  • Cable & Wireless Worldwide Plc
    • Chancery Division
    • 26 Julio 2012
    ... ... Worldwide Plc ("the Company") and its members, is to effect the takeover of the Company by a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc ... The sums carried to merger reserve in that case would, once realised, be profits brought into account ... ...
  • Boardman Marden Ltd (Plaintiffs Appellants) v Josephs and Others (Defendants Respondents)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Febrero 1968
    ... ... with an agreement, which is becoming more familiar nowadays, of a takeover bid or merger of Companies. It arises in this way. There was a small ... ...
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