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UK Takeover Code: new pensions obligations
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- April 30 2013
The Panel on Takeovers & Mergers (the "Takeover Panel") has announced the introduction of new rules in relation to defined benefit pension plans
Capital markets practice: news round-up
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- December 18 2012
Welcome to the latest in our series of regular alerts containing a round-up of news from our capital markets practice
The UK Takeover Code - 12 months on from the overhaul
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- September 18 2012
On 19 September 2011 (the "Implementation Date") the City Code on Takeovers & Mergers (the "Takeover Code") underwent the most significant overhaul of recent times in the wake of the controversy around Kraft Foods’ takeover of Cadbury the previous year
Public company takeovers in the United Kingdom: a guide for US private equity acquirers
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom, USA
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- August 7 2012
For US private equity funds, the present time may represent an exceptional opportunity to consider acquiring UK publicly listed companies
Corporate governance: reporting anti-corruption measures: transparency international publishes recommendations for multi-national companies
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- July 30 2012
Transparency International’s latest report, ‘Transparency in corporate reporting: assessing the world’s largest companies’ (published on 10 July 2012), follows Transparency International’s analysis of the reporting of anti-corruption measures by over one hundred of the largest publicly listed multi-national companies
The Takeover Code: the Takeover Panel launches three new consultations on proposed changes to the code
- Squire Sanders
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- United Kingdom
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- July 30 2012
On 5 July 2012, the Takeover Panel published three consultation papers containing proposed amendments to the Takeover Code
FSA’ fines Sir Ken Morrison for failure to disclose reduced shareholdings in Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- United Kingdom
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- October 4 2011
The Financial Services Authority (‘FSA’) has published a Final Notice (dated 16 August 2011) imposing a penalty of £210,000 on Sir Ken Morrison, the former chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc (‘the Company’), for breach of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (‘DTR’) resulting from a failure to disclose his reduced shareholding and voting rights in the Company
Financial reporting: importance of ‘true and fair view’ re-iterated by the financial reporting council
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- United Kingdom
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- October 4 2011
The Accounting Standards Board and the Auditing Practices Board of the Financial Reporting Council published a paper, ‘True and Fair’, on 21 July 2011 confirming that the’ true and fair’ requirement set out in section 393 of the Companies Act 20063 remains of fundamental importance in both UK GAAP and IFRS
Financial reporting: auditors: disclosure of audit and non-audit services
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- United Kingdom
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- October 4 2011
The Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (SI 20112198), which came into force on 1 October 2011, up-date the classification of audit and non-audit services, which large companies and groups must use to disclose, by way of note to the annual accounts, the fees they have paid their auditor or auditor’s associates
Narrative reporting: the government publishes consultation paper on a new framework for narrative reporting in conjunction with discussion paper on executive remuneration
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- United Kingdom
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- October 4 2011
Following its August 2010 consultation paper, ‘The Future of Narrative Reporting’ , the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (‘BIS’) has launched (19 September 2011) a further consultation document, ‘The Future of Narrative Reporting: Consulting on a New Framework’, containing proposals for reform of the current regime
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