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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
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Fourteenth edition
11 December 2023

Updated
11 December 2023

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Control

Control means an interest, or interests, in shares carrying in aggregate 30% or more of the voting rights (as defined below) of a company, irrespective of whether such interest or interests give de facto control.

NOTE ON CONTROL

A reference to a company (or, where appropriate, a fund manager, a principal trader or an adviser) “controlling”, being “controlled by” or being “under the same control as” another company is to be construed in accordance with the Note on Definitions at the end of the Definitions Section.

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