• The Takeover Directive 2004/25/EC is an EU Directive dealing with European company law's treatment of mergers and acquisitions. It concerns the standards...
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  • statutory footing as part of the UK's compliance with the European Takeover Directive (2004/25/EC). The Code requires that all shareholders in a company...
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  • of its provisions are mirrored in the EU Takeover Directive.The Code is administered by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, which has the authority to...
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  • arbiter of takeover bids and has the support of government and other organisations with statutory involvement. The European Takeovers Directive mandates...
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    directors' duties. it transposes into UK law the Takeover Directive and the Transparency Directive of the European Union it introduces various new provisions...
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  • by the Irish Takeover Panel Act 1997. The Panel is designated as the competent Irish authority for the purpose of the Takeover Directive 2004/25/EC. It...
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    listing and takeover rules) Directive 2003/6/EC on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) and its implementing Directive 2003/124/EC on...
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    procedures in the field of company law: Takeover-directive Merger directive Balance directives Shareholders’ rights directive Statute of the European private...
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  • with P. Ritter and S. Haller, The Economics of the Proposed European Takeover Directive (Centre for European Policy Studies, 2003). J. McCahery & L. Renneboog...
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  • down in the European Directive on Takeover Bids (2004/25/EC) for public companies. Under the Companies Act 2006, s.979 gives a takeover bidder who has already...
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  • proposals by the majority shareholders. Article 5 of the European Union's Takeover Directive specifies that the rights of minority share-holders must be protected...
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    the backing of Germany to torpedo the draft Directive in return for the UK to help sink the Takeover Directive (Germany has comprehensive agency work regulation...
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  • member states of the European Union, the 2004 Takeover Directive specifies general standards for national takeover legislation, including a mandatory offer...
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  • the Persistence of National Laws' (2010) EGCI Working Paper 'The Takeover Directive as a Protectionist Tool?' (2010) EGCI Working Paper (with EP Schuster...
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  • subsidiaries indirectly, through first-tier subsidiaries). Recital 31 of Directive 2013/34/EU stipulates that control should be based on holding a majority...
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    Commercial Practices Directive 2005/29/EC Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU Payment Services Directive 2007/64/EC Late Payments Directive 2011/7/EU While...
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    AI takeover—the idea that some kind of artificial intelligence may supplant humankind as the dominant intelligent species on the planet—is a common theme...
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  • the effect of frustrating a takeover bid. This is reflected in the Takeover Directive 2004/25/EC, art 9(2). For the old and abandoned approach of the pure...
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  • the backing of Germany to torpedo the draft Directive in return for the UK to help sink the Takeover Directive (Germany has comprehensive agency work regulation...
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    Company Law Directive 2005/56/EC, on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies Thirteenth Company Law Directive 2004/25/EC, on takeover bids Merger...
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  • adoption of the 2014 market abuse directive (2014/57/EU) and much other legislation. In the UK, the market abuse directive (MAD) was implemented in 2003 to...
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    could trigger a takeover; as of December 2016, Vivendi held a 25.15% stake in Ubisoft. Reuters reported in April 2017 that Vivendi's takeover of Ubisoft would...
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  • is now regulated pursuant to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. This is one of two methods a corporate raider can use to strip assets...
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    under the control of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. After Hamas' takeover, Israel imposed a blockade of the Gaza Strip, that significantly damaged...
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  • Privacy Principles, a process for U.S. companies to comply with the EU Directive on the protection of personal data DMCA safe harbor, which shields online...
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    The 1999 military takeover in Pakistan was a bloodless coup d'état initiated by the military staff at the Joint Staff HQ working under the Chairman of...
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    shortly thereafter. The Soviets dispatched Andrey Vyshinsky to oversee the takeover of Latvia and Andrey Zhdanov to Estonia. On 18 and 21 June 1940, new "popular...
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    American television series Star Trek introduced the concept of the "Prime Directive", a regulation intended to limit the negative consequences of first contact...
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    April 2015. "Friends backs Resolution takeover". BBC News. 11 August 2009. Gallaher agrees £7.5bn Japan Tobacco takeover The Scotsman "Co-op buys Somerfield...
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    chairman of Ofcom, to expand on his previous report, to account for EU Directive 2008/6/EC which called for the postal sector to be fully open to competition...
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