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Global M&A series: consumer & retail 2013

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • China, Global, Russia, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2013

In an era of households cutting back and weak confidence about the future, consumer and retail sector dealmaking has proven a bright spot for M&A

UK Takeover Code: new pensions obligations

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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

UK Budget 2013 what's in it for private equity?

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 20 2013

Introduction The recent announcement of Budget 2013 provides a good opportunity to overview the key tax issues facing the private equity community

Capital markets practice: news round-up

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 30 2012

On 5 July 2012, the Takeover Panel published three consultation papers containing proposed amendments to the Takeover Code

Private equity budget update

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 21 2012

This note overviews the key tax issues for individuals who hold sharesincentive packages in private equity backed companies and for the companies themselves

FSA’ fines Sir Ken Morrison for failure to disclose reduced shareholdings in Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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

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