The latest from ICAEW’s centre of professional expertise in corporate finance, including a round-table discussion on professional and business services, and how to contribute to consultations on the Takeover Code, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime and notifiable acquisitions.
We are one year on from the Takeover Panel’s implementation of a more rigorous approach to post-offer intentions. Jason Sinclair looks at how it is bedding in.
This month we look at life sciences M&A – will 2025 see a pick-up? Plus: Pearson’s Sally Johnson on the education company’s approach to M&A; Tom Rowe-Jones of LAVA Advisory Partners on the challenges of advising in an accountancy firm takeover; and private equity investment in Scotland.
At a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, the UK government’s tougher stance on the foreign takeover of strategic companies will face a critical test as ministers prepare to rule on the planned £2.8bn acquisition of defence specialist Ultra Electronics by a rival owned by a US private equity company.
A global boom in deals where private equity-backed consortia and managers make takeover bids for listed companies reflects a buoyant M&A market, ICAEW’s head of corporate finance says.
Government guidance on the circumstances that employees may be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) in the event of a business takeover or transfer.
