Mergers and Acquisitions

On 27 March 2013, the European Commission published for consultation a new proposal to simplify and limit the burden associated with merger control filings to the European Commission...

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No …/.. of XXX amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 802/2004 of 7 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings...

The European Commission is seeking stakeholders' views on a proposal to simplify certain procedures for notifying mergers under the EU Merger Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 139/2004). The proposal aims to make EU merger control even more business-friendly by cutting red tape and streamlining procedures...

Offshore-i provides data and insight about the mergers and acquisition activity going on in the major offshore jurisdictions around the globe...

This 2012 Year in Review report discusses some of the more noteworthy developments and trends in insurance industry transactions in the past year in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, with particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and the insurance-linked securities and convergence markets

Capturing value in a merger or acquisition is a significant challenge for growth-minded companies...

The Office of Fair Trading has increased the level of fees to be paid in relation to merger notifications...

Topics in this issue:

EU - Phase I merger notifications;  Key merger clearances;

UK  - Market investigation guidelines;

UK - Banking White Paper; Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

State aid.

This guide provides an in-depth and practical analysis of the EU merger control legislation and its application in practice, including illustrative flow-charts...

Welcome to this inaugural edition of Appleby’s Offshore-i, a new report that provides data and insight about the mergers and acquisition activity going on in the major offshore jurisdictions around the globe...

Merger and acquisition strategies may be driven by the desire to enhance market position, expand into new markets, reduce costs and gain talented management or a workforce...

Details of the long awaited mini-QFII or RQFII scheme were finally announced on 16 December 2011...

Mergers and acquisitions can have a fundamental impact on the acquirer’s operations, resources and strategies...

The objective of the project is to stimulate debate about how business combinations under common control should be reflected in the financial statements. It is an area of financial reporting where opinions remain divided on what is the best approach to account for such transactions. At present, IFRS is silent on how to account for business combinations under common control and a number of different approaches are applied in practice...

On 21 July 2011, the Takeover Panel published its response statement setting out the results of a lengthy consultation on UK takeover regulation, which began in June 2010 and followed the most recent consultation paper published in March 2011. The Response Statement sets out the results of the consultation and finalises the proposed amendments to the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers which will come into force on 19 September 2011...

The Companies (Reporting Requirements in Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1606) have now been published, and will come into force on 1st August 2011, though do not apply to any merger or division the draft terms of which were adopted before that date...

These Regulations implement in part Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities, and certain of the obligations in Commission Directives 2010/43/EU...

This weekly update from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP's Financial Services Regulatory Team summarises new developments as reported by the FSA, the UKLA, the Upper Tribunal, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the London Stock Exchang...

Competition Law Bulletin has been published by Squire Sanders.

The UK private mergers and acquisitions market has shown real signs of recovery over the last 12 months...