- The Takeover Code
- Definitions
- Acceleration statement
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- Acceleration statement
- Acting in concert
- Business day
- Cash acquisitions
- Cash offeror
- Close relatives
- Connected adviser
- Connected fund manager and connected principal trader
- Control
- Dates, periods of time and London time
- Day 14
- Day 21
- Day 39
- Day 46
- Day 53
- Day 60
- Dealings
- Derivative
- Directors
- Electronic form
- Employee representative
- Exempt fund manager
- Exempt principal trader
- FCA Handbook
- Fund manager
- Hard copy form
- Interests in securities
- Irrevocable commitments and letters of intent
- Material official authorisation or regulatory clearance
- Offer
- Offeree company
- Offeror
- Offer period
- Official List
- Ordinary course profit forecast
- Parties to the offer
- Pension scheme
- Person with information rights
- Post-offer intention statement
- Post-offer undertaking
- Principal trader
- Profit estimate
- Profit forecast
- Quantified financial benefits statement
- Recognised intermediary
- Recognised investment exchange
- Regulatory information service or RIS
- Relevant securities
- Reverse takeover
- Scheme of arrangement or scheme
- Securities exchange offer
- Securities exchange offeror
- Shares or securities
- Treasury shares
- UK multilateral trading facility or UK MTF
- UK regulated market
- Unconditional date
- Voting rights
- Website notification
- Note on Definitions
Fourteenth edition
11 December 2023
Updated
11 December 2023