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Takeover Panel UK

  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Investor urges inquiry into ‘structural failings’ at UK Takeover Panel

    Julian Treger was sanctioned by mergers and acquisitions watchdog in landmark case this year

    Julian Treger
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    City should jail takeover cheats, says wronged Hong Kong tycoon

    Pyrrho director Anson Chan says Takeover Panel needs ‘more teeth’

    Anson Chan
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    UK Takeover Panel issues its most serious sanction: a cold shoulder

    City’s merger watchdog formally ostracises 10 dealmakers for misleading market more than a decade ago

    Liberty department store in London
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    A local regulator for local people

    The UK Takeover Panel wants less to do

  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Corporate governance
    UK shareholder body to tackle ‘fractious’ relations with boards

    Investor Forum looking to involve listed companies in bid to resolve tensions undermining City of London

    Andy Griffiths
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    UK Takeover Panel falls victim to deal drought

    City mergers and acquisitions regulator posts rare loss after fees from deals dip

    View of the City of London from near the Thames river, in London, England
  • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Top tips from a master of the UK M&A game Premium content

    Plus, a controversial Israeli spyware group’s secret deal, and America’s largest pension fund prepares to move billions more into private equity

  • Friday, 20 August, 2021
    Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC
    Morrisons’ share price surges beyond CD&R’s bid offer

    Value of supermarket stock closes above private equity group’s revised offer as rival Fortress considers options

    A customer shops at Morrison’s supermarket in London
  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    Vectura Group PLC
    Philip Morris and Carlyle face auction in battle for inhaler group

    UK regulator to oversee five days of bidding for Vectura by cigarette producer and private equity firm

    A Vectura manufacturing facility
  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    City InsiderBryce Elder
    Glass Lewis struggles to put the genie back in the bottle

    Proxy adviser’s effort to retract missent email only draws attention to its contents

  • Thursday, 28 May, 2020
    Due Diligence
    The lessons and consequences of a failed megadeal Premium content

    For executives browsing DD, there are lessons to learn from the Pfizer/AstraZeneca saga

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    LombardKate Burgess
    Rolls-Royce cuts 9,000 jobs to clear runway for take-off in five years

    Aero-engine maker burns cash; Moss Bros’ unwilling suitor; FRC chair quits after eight months

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Rangers Football Club PLC
    Glasgow Rangers chair given rare ‘cold-shoulder’ by City body

    Takeover Panel penalty ostracises Dave King from UK financial sector for 4 years

    Rangers chairman Dave King before the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership match at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow.
  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The UK’s unpredictable attitude to foreign bids

    The rules have tightened since Kraft-Cadbury but uncertainty lingers

    Multi-pack bars of Cadbury "Dairy Milk" chocolate, manufactured by Kraft Foods Inc., sit displayed for sale inside an Asda supermarket, the U.K. retail arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in Watford, U.K., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. U.K. retail sales rose more than economists forecast in September as an increase in furniture demand led a rebound from a slump the previous month. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    Petropavlovsk PLC
    Petropavlovsk shareholder says Takeover Panel probe hitting business

    CABS says investigation ‘casting an unnecessary shadow’ over company

  • Thursday, 20 September, 2018
    FT AlphavilleDan McCrum
    Sky - place your bids tomorrow
    Sky - place your bids tomorrow
  • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Sky takeover battle heads for ‘sealed bids’

    21st Century Fox and Comcast set to contest rare auction controlled by Takeover Panel

    FILE PHOTO: Sky Sports logos are seen on the side of offices at their UK company headquarters in west London July 25, 2014. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
  • Friday, 13 July, 2018
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Watchdog arbitrates between shareholders and Disney in Sky battle

    Disney must offer all Sky investors £14 a share if other bids collapse, Takeover Panel rules

  • Friday, 29 June, 2018
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    House sales and Sky bid are links in UK’s chain pains

    Disney’s increased offer for Fox puts the Takeover Panel in uncomfortable territory

    FILE PHOTO: The Sky logo is seen on outside of an entrance to offices and studios in west London, Britain June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Hedge funds push regulator to set higher Sky price

    Investors seek revised valuation to reflect Disney’s move to outbid Comcast

    Undated file photo of a Sky HD TV remote control, as the European Commission has given unconditional approval to Comcast's proposed takeover of Sky, saying it raises no competition concerns in Europe. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday June 15, 2018. It said the deal would "lead to only a limited increase in Sky's existing share of the markets for the acquisition of TV content, as well as in the market for the wholesale supply of TV channels in the relevant member states". See PA story CITY Sky. Photo credit should read: Chris Radburn/PA Wire
  • Monday, 4 June, 2018
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Petropavlovsk seeks ruling from UK watchdog on alleged shareholder collusion
  • Thursday, 3 May, 2018
    European companies
    The ups and downs of Sajid Javid

    Timing is everything for the ex-Deutsche man who was this week promoted to UK home secretary

    epa06707178 British Home Secretary Sajid Javid departs a Brexit cabinet meeting in London, Britain, 02 May 2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure over her plans for a Customs Union deal with the EU. EPA/ANDY RAIN
  • Thursday, 26 April, 2018
    UK companies
    Takeover Panel appoints Simon Lindsay as next director-general

    Citigroup’s current head of UK M&A to start at the UK mergers watchdog in July

    The Takeover Panel
  • Wednesday, 25 April, 2018
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Sky, Whitbread and Shire deals test government’s taste for M&A

    Moves highlight new potential hypocrisies for dealing with cross-border transactions

    Including the value of Shire’s debt, the deal is worth more than $80bn, according to data from Dealogic
  • Thursday, 12 April, 2018
    Television
    Disney must make cash bid for Sky — UK Takeover Panel

    US group should match 21st Century Fox’s £11.7bn offer says regulator

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