Merger and Takeover in UK Law
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CITY RULES OK? POLICY COMMUNITY, POLICY NETWORK AND TAKEOVER BIDS
This paper uses the concepts of policy community and policy network to analyse the particular set of industrial policy issues related to the conduct of takeover and merger bids. Within the general ...... ... and policy network to analyse the particular set of industrial policy issues related to the conduct of takeover and merger bids. Within the general context of the law, the regulatory climate is governed by the principle of voluntary self-regulation, which ... ...
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Initiatives towards formation of academic library consortium in Malaysia
Purpose: – This paper aims to report on several initiatives towards formation of national consortium among academic libraries in Malaysia. The consortium focused on subscription of online databases...... ... increase, license agreement, various formats ofusage statistics, merger and takeover of publishers have made PERPUN (Malaysian StandingConference ... ...
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Piers Pommeroy's suffering from merger mania, but he's not sure which deal will cause more grief: his firm's planned takeover by a major plc or his mother's impending marriage to his former boss.
...Week 1 According to Henry, whose alma maters regularly top the educational league tables and whose erudition, therefore, exceeds even mine, life reserves the heaviest blows for those with the broadest shoulders. If that were true, I'd surely bear a......
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Tentative Information, Inside Information, Price‐sensitive Information and Materiality
The disclosure requirements derived from the Listing Rules either expressly or by implication require disclosure of ‘material’ information. These Rules also contain ample provisions which explicitl...... ... Ongoing merger negotiations, development of a new product, and the planning of a major ... of its occurrence is a question; the preparation of a merger/takeover is a fact and the probability of actual merger/takeover is a question. (8) ... ...
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The efficacy of market abuse regulation in the UK
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the efficacy of Financial Services and Markets Act (FMSA) (2000) in deterring illegal insider trading in target companies around the time of a mer...... ... illegal insider trading in target companies around the time of a merger andaquisition announcement.Design/methodology/approach – The author uses ... to link unknown instances of illegal insidertrading with pre takeover residuals, therefore explaining the residuals remains a deductive ... ...
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The Month in Retrospect
... ... agree ... • Southend county borough has objected that the proposed merger between its force and that of Essex will be a " takeover" and not a ... ...
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MANAGEMENT BUYOUTS, SUPERVISION AND EMPLOYEE DISCRETION
Using a matched sample of 1959 firms and 27,263 employees from the UK Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we examine the effects of the management buyout (MBO) organizational form on employee disc...... ... change variables are created and, consequently, we control for takeover or merger, being sold by the 8 The distribution of the index across the ... ...
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Stakeholding and Corporate Governance in the UK
The ‘stakeholder economy’ forms a central part of the New Labour programme for reforming both the public and private sectors. The present paper considers the potential of stakeholding to address th...... ... of massive merger/takeover attempts `invol- ... ...
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Takeovers, Joint Ventures and the Acquisition of Resources for Diversification
This paper explores the influence of acquisition costs on the choice between the takeover and joint venture modes of obtaining the resources required for diversifying expansion. It uses the conditi...... ... the influence of acquisition costs on the choice between the takeover and joint venture modes of obtaining the resources required for ... facilitate an expansion may look either to the takeover ofÐ or merger withÐ a firm possessing such assets or to their sourcing via some form of ... ...
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Employee Relations in Mergers and Acquisitions
The human aspects of mergers and acquisitions receive less emphasis than the more easily controlled financial aspects. A review of the existing literature and research suggests that mergers and acq...... ... He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest ... The threat of takeover, whether it materializes or not, is regarded as a vital discipline on ... ...
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