Corporate Takeovers
Our Gold Coast corporate lawyers advise on corporate takeovers and provide their expertise on a range of takeover-related concerns. Corporate takeovers are one of the most well-known and high-profile forms of corporate law and are inevitable in a market economy that consistently strives to achieve increased efficiencies, synergies and economies of scale. Takeovers involve one company purchasing another company via a share acquisition substantial enough to empower it with a controlling interest in the voting shares of the acquired entity. There is, however, a general prohibition that prevents an entity from acquiring in excess of a 20% interest in the voting power of an acquired entity, unless certain procedures are followed.