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Overhaul Proposed to UK Takeover Code: Offer Timetable and Offer Conditions

On October 27, 2020 the U.K. Takeover Panel (the “Panel”) published a consultation (the “Consultation”) on a series of significant changes to the treatment of conditions (and pre-conditions) to offers and the timetable which offers must follow under the U.K. Takeover Code (the “Code”). The consultation calls for comments by January 15, 2021, following which the Panel expects to issue a response statement (in Spring 2021) setting out the final form of the changes it decides to make to the Code....
By: Shearman & Sterling LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/overhaul-proposed-to-uk-takeover-code-85048/

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