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Corporate weekly highlights—20 September 2018

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Published on: 20 September 2018

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Table of contents

Public company takeovers
Takeover Panel establishes auction procedure for competitive bids for Sky plc
Equity capital markets
LSE confirms amendments to the Admission and Disclosure Standards
IOSCO guidance on conflicts of interest and conduct risk in equity capital raising
Partnerships
Court finds property only an asset of partnership where agreed by partners (Wild v Wild)
Audit
Financial Reporting Council Ltd v Sports Direct International plc
Corporate governance

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Corporate highlights includes news of this weekend’s auction to conclude the competitive bids for Sky plc made by Comcast and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., amendments to the Admission and Disclosure Standards to facilitate the admission of Chinese A-shares’ depositary receipts to trading on the Main Market, and the publication of International Organization of Securities Commissions guidance to regulators for addressing conflicts of interest that may occur when intermediaries manage an equity securities offering.

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