Selling a company by auction

Resource type: Practice note

Status: Maintained

Jurisdiction: United Kingdom

This note describes the controlled auction process by which a seller seeks competing bids for the target company and highlights the differences between this and the more typical private treaty sale process.

Bernd Ratzke, Boodle Hatfield

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Resource ID: 6-107-3766
Products: PLC Corporate Law, PLC Law Department, Share Purchases
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