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Schemes of Arrangement - the End of the Numerosity Test?

The High Court yesterday held that a Chairperson of a shareholder scheme meeting may reject votes cast against a scheme of arrangement in circumstances where the shares...

20 March 2017

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

The Oxford Business Law Blog (OBLB) Celebrates its First Anniversary

Today, the Oxford Business Law Blog (OBLB) marks its first anniversary. Last year, we set out to create a leading and truly international forum for the exchange of...

14 March 2017

OBLB Editors

Consequential Loss Exclusions in UK M&A – Nebulous or Clear?

M&A transaction documents often contain an exclusion or limitation of the seller’s liability for ‘consequential’, ‘indirect’ or ‘special’ losses suffered by the purchaser. For instance, a purchase agreement will often provide...

15 February 2017

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Takeover Code: Given the Cold-shoulder

The recent decision by the Hearings Committee of the Takeover Panel, published on 10 January 2017, has emphasised the importance of dealing with the Panel in an open and co-operative...

25 January 2017

Burges Salmon

Cross-Border M&A – 2017 Checklist for Successful Acquisitions in the United States

Global M&A volume in 2016 continued to be robust, reaching $3.7 trillion, approximately 40% of which involved cross-border deals, as compared to one-third in 2015. Five out of the ten...

4 January 2017

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

The Vulnerability of European Companies to Creeping Acquisitions: One Recent Example from Italy

Creeping acquisitions, the surreptitious building of a very large position in a public company with neither the consent of the target, nor the prior launch of a tender offer, are...

23 December 2016

Matteo Gatti

Promoter Exits in India: A Real Leash Reined by the Market Watchdog?

Most Indian listed companies are run by promoters who are a set of persons and/ or families having effective control over a listed company. The Securities and Exchange Board of...

1 December 2016

Malek-ul-Ashtar Shipchandler

Gaurav Malhotra

Making Sense out of Appraisal Arbitrage

The appraisal remedy under US corporation law is widely seen as intended to protect stockholders who are forced to sell their shares in a merger. But recently it has become...

8 November 2016

Richard A Booth

UK Takeover Code – Bidder Elects to Give Post-Offer Undertakings for the First Time

A bidder seeking to acquire a UK listed company has given "post-offer undertakings" in relation to increasing the target's employee headcount and keeping the target's headquarters in the UK if...

30 September 2016

Herbert Smith Freehills

Will the New UK Government Set the Course for a Stable and Coherent Tax Policy?

In the immediate aftermath of the UK's vote to the leave the EU, it has become commonplace in Britain for the news to be viewed through a Brexit prism: what...

27 September 2016

King & Wood Mallesons

Schemes of Arrangement - the End of the Numerosity Test?

The Oxford Business Law Blog (OBLB) Celebrates its First Anniversary

Consequential Loss Exclusions in UK M&A – Nebulous or Clear?

Takeover Code: Given the Cold-shoulder

Cross-Border M&A – 2017 Checklist for Successful Acquisitions in the United States

The Vulnerability of European Companies to Creeping Acquisitions: One Recent Example from Italy

Promoter Exits in India: A Real Leash Reined by the Market Watchdog?

Making Sense out of Appraisal Arbitrage

UK Takeover Code – Bidder Elects to Give Post-Offer Undertakings for the First Time

Will the New UK Government Set the Course for a Stable and Coherent Tax Policy?

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