Example sentences of "a parent company [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has the company been a parent company of an undertaking which was then limited . |
| 2 | Such transactions include Court Schemes , reductions of share capital , purchases by a company of its own shares , reverse takeovers , new issues of shares and the acquisition by a parent company of further shares in its subsidiary . |
| 3 | ( e ) an acquisition by a parent company of the shares which it does not own in its subsidiary ( this might occur , for example , following a takeover offer where the compulsory sale procedures under s429 could not be used because there were insufficient acceptances — see para 15.5 below ) ; |
| 4 | The City Code is concerned with takeover and merger transactions , however effected , of all relevant companies ; these include partial offers , offers by a parent company for shares in its subsidiary and certain other transactions where control of a company ( as defined in the Code ) is to be obtained or consolidated . |
| 5 | For the purposes of the Code , this expression includes takeover and merger transactions ( including reverse takeovers ) , partial offers , Court Schemes and offers by a parent company for shares in a subsidiary . |
| 6 | It must be likely that in due course a parent company in the UK will be legally responsible for the debts of at least its wholly owned subsidiaries unless , perhaps , it files some sort of public disclaimer . |
| 7 | The newly-adopted directive extends the Second Company Law Directive 's minimum restrictions on the acquisition by a public company ( or its nominees ) of its own shares to acquisitions of shares in a parent company by a subsidiary . |