Merger and Takeover in UK Law

  • UK merger control: Public health emergencies and foreign takeover scrutiny
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    New measures, announced on 21 June 2020, will allow the UK Government to intervene in relation to transactions involving businesses with "critical capabilities" to help combat public health emergen...
  • Mergers and acquisitions: post-completion immigration actions
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    Where an organisation has a Tier 2 Sponsor Licence to employ non-EEA workers they have a responsibility to report to the Home Office when certain events occur. Examples include where the organisati...
    ... ... the organisation moves premises, changes its name, or there is a merger, takeover, de-merger or, more generally, any transaction where there is a ... ...
  • FSA Censures BDO LLP for Failings as a Sponsor
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    On June 1, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that it had censured BDO LLP for failings while acting as a sponsor during the takeover by Shore Capital Group PLC of Puma Brandenburg...
    ... ... BDO LLP for failings while acting as a sponsor during the takeover by Shore Capital Group PLC of Puma Brandenburg Limited. This is the FSA's ... by Shore Capital to provide advice as a sponsor on its proposed merger with Puma. BDO was made aware that the transaction might constitute a ... ...
  • Five Things You Should Be Doing to Make Sure Your Sponsor Licence Keeps Its A-rating
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    1. Keep on top of reporting requirements - Sponsors are subject to continuous requirements to self-police their licences by monitoring the immigration status of their employees and reporting any c...
    ... ... reporting requirements triggered if the business is part of a merger, takeover or de-merger and there are strict deadlines for notifying UKVI ... ...
  • Mergers And Acquisitions ' Where Does Immigration Fit In?
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... Examples are: ... Partial merger ... Change in controlling shareholder occurs ... How does TUPE protection ... ...
  • Understanding Tax: The true value of UK tax losses
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    This article is produced by our London Tax team, which is part of our global Tax practice. Our series, "Understanding Tax", explores commercially relevant and recent changes to the UK's tax code. ...
    ... ... useful in a variety of situations – whether in the context of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, takeover, or even shareholder activism ... ...
  • Updating the City Code: Dual Listed Company Transactions and Frustrating Action
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... may be off the agenda for most companies at the moment, the Takeover Panel continues to amend and update the Code in response to changing ... the UK which is the subject of a 'change of control' (generally a merger or takeover offer) ... Change of control is defined as a holding of 30% or ... ...
  • Corporate Transactions, Restructures And Insolvencies
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... ownership, merger, takeover, demerger, loses or accepts sponsored ... workers under TUPE it ... ...
  • Changes Of Employment And Salary /Allowance Packages
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... are moving to a new Sponsor to continue in the same job, due to a takeover, merger or de-merger ... If however a Tier 2 migrant (or a work permit ... ...
  • Adapt Or Die, How Businesses Can Survive Difficult Times
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... shopping.  ... Another possibility for business survival is merger or ... takeover.  Mike Ashley the CEO of Fraser's Group (formerly ... ...
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