Merger and Takeover in UK Law
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UK merger control: Public health emergencies and foreign takeover scrutiny
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...
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Mergers and acquisitions: post-completion immigration actions
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 ... ...
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FSA Censures BDO LLP for Failings as a Sponsor
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...
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Five Things You Should Be Doing to Make Sure Your Sponsor Licence Keeps Its A-rating
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 ... ...
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Understanding Tax: The true value of UK tax losses
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 ... ...
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Updating the City Code: Dual Listed Company Transactions and Frustrating Action
... ... 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 ... ...
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Adapt Or Die, How Businesses Can Survive Difficult Times
... ... shopping. ... Another possibility for business survival is merger or ... takeover. Mike Ashley the CEO of Fraser's Group (formerly ... ...
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Changes Of Employment And Salary /Allowance Packages
... ... 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 ... ...
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A Fair Deal For LGPS Members?
... ... body where a Scheme employer is taken over or is part of a merger ... The change is proposed to address concerns that on mergers or take ... (as defined in the 2013 Regulations) is involved in a merger or takeover. We look at the key points below ... The basics A number of new ... ...
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UK Employers: Sponsor Licence Renewals to Begin
Companies have 120 days from the time of a notification to renew their sponsor licence. With the four-year anniversary of the launch of Tier 2 of the UK's Points-Based System approaching, empl...... ... request a change to their organisation details as a result of a merger or takeover ... Sponsors request any other change to their sponsor ... ...
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