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Our SQE Answered Corporate Transactions Private Acquisitions guide tells you EXACTLY what you need to know to smash your studies, without all the additional waffle that your law school lecturers throw at you. Our guides break down key concepts into bite-sized, easy to understand chunks. We use tables, diagrams, and flowcharts to help you understand the law more quickly AND we do it in the way you need for your assignments, tutorials and exams.

Other textbooks and manuals only tell you the law, but we show you how to apply the law for exam success, so you can learn more efficiently and effectively.

This guide will be useful for you if you are sitting an optional extra SQE module as part of your enhanced SQE course, if you want to work in this area of law in your future career, if you want to deepen your understanding of mergers and acquisitions work in preparation for a job interview or for a new training contract seat, or if you are just interested in understanding more about corporate transactions!

Please note that this guide does not cover the topics that are examined as part of the SQE syllabus (see here if you are taking your SQE exams).

Fully updated in March 2023, this is a MUST-HAVE guide for all SQE students studying the optional corporate transactions (also called the mergers and acquisitions) elective.

TOPICS COVERED

• Comparing Auction and Private Treaty Sales

• Share and Asset Sales

• Business Valuation

• Legal & Regulatory Consents (including FSMA)

• Competition Controls

• Forms of Consideration – Cash, Shares & Loan Notes

• Tax on Share Sales & Asset Sales

• Group Structures & Tax Relief for Groups

• Due Diligence

• Contractual Protections, Disclosure and Damages

• Agency, Distribution Agreements & Competition Law

• Employment – Wrongful & Unfair Dismissal, TUPE 2006, Redundancy & Pensions

• Property Issues

• Environmental Issues

• The Acquisition Agreement – Clauses, Restrictive Covenants, Assigning & Novating Contracts, Transferring Debtors & Creditors, Transferring IP and Other Assets

• Split Exchange & Completion

• Management Buy-Outs and Private Equity Funds

• Completion

• Class & Related Party Transactions

• Public Company Takeovers

WHICH VERSION SHOULD I BUY?

We know that everyone learns differently, which is why we have created different ways for you to use our guides:

1. Our printed guide is our original printed book. All topics are printed in grey scale, with full colour covers to protect your guide, and thick card tabs to help you quickly navigate between topics. Our printed guides use a wiro binding to ensure that your guide sits flat on the table. This is perfect for students that like to have an actual book to take to lectures, make notes in, and tab up for your exams.

2. Our loose-leaf guide comes pre-hole punched (4 holes), ready for you to place directly into your own folder. If you like to create your own notes, but don’t have the time to copy out large sections of textbook (who does, right?!)… this is PERFECT for you! The hole punched guide allows you to integrate your notes directly into your own notes and gives you the flexibility to re-order our subjects to suit your personal needs. Please note that this version does not include tabs or covers.

3. Our MyLiveBook Interactive e-Book allows you to access your guide directly from your laptop, phone, or tablet. You can highlight, annotate, add photos and search your guide both online and offline. Links within the book allow you to quickly jump between topics. This is perfect for students that like to work on one (or multiple) devices rather than on paper, or for those that like to work on the go.

4. The blended learning pack is our creme-de-la-creme way to learn! This includes both a wiro-bounded printed guide OR loose-leaf guide sent direct to your house, and immediate online access via our MyLiveBook Interactive e-Book! The ultimate way to ensure that you always have access to your notes, whether sat at your desk, or on the go!

NOTE: MyLiveBook access will be emailed to you within one hour of your order being placed. Your MyLiveBook access will be valid for 36 months from the date of purchase. Please check our guidance on how to access your code and set up your MyLiveBook access. Please note that you cannot print your MyLiveBook notes out or copy and paste more than 140 characters at a time.