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Your rights if you’re fired or made redundant
It happens. You wake up one morning to find out your company’s being acquired. Your first thought: will I be able to keep my job. You do have some legal rights. There’s differences between being fired (also called ‘dismissal’) and your position being made redundant. In most mergers or acquisitions, what’s happening is that many [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hostile Deals: Caveat Emptor
In a related blog, I’ve commented on hostile deals. Why? There’s been a lot of press on this topic because of last month’s $19 billion unsolicited (hostile) offer for Cadbury by Kraft. Certainly, as I note in that blog, the deal has had so much attention not just because it’s hostile, but it’s also all [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What to do first if your company’s being acquired?
You wake up one morning and you read that your company is being acquired. Aside from the shock of hearing this, your first thought (other than ‘OMG!’ and ‘Is this a dream or am I really awake already?) usually is: ‘What should I do if my company’s being acquired?’ That IS the right question. What [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This wave of M&A deals: Who will be made redundant now?
Strategic acquisitions are once again headline news with the announcement of a number of massive deals on both sides of the Atlantic (see the blog entry in a sister website: ‘Has the M&A market returned? Green shoots turn into harvest time…’). Wait a few weeks or months, and the headlines will talk more about the [...]
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