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SEC Modifies Regime Governing Cross-Border Business Combinations and other Similar Transactions
October 14, 2008 Full PDF
In an effort to reduce the number of requests for relief from the U.S. tender offer rules for cross-border transactions, and to otherwise reduce the areas of friction between U.S. rules and non-U.S. rules in the cross-border m&a context, the SEC has adopted various amendments to its rules governing exchange offers, tender offers, rights offerings and business combinations.