Vica Irani is a partner with Jones Day, based in the firm’s London office. Her broad practice focuses on the areas of general corporate and securities law, with primary emphasis on the representation of issuers, underwriters and other institutions in IPOs and other equity offerings, and public and private M&A transactions. She has represented clients across a wide range of industries, including natural resources, health care, manufacturing, technology, and military & aerospace, with a particular focus on cross-border deals. In addition, she assists public companies in satisfying their periodic reporting obligations and advises clients generally with respect to corporate law issues and corporate governance matters. Her representative transactions include : advising Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC on its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market, the related $3 billion global offering, and ongoing corporate governance, compliance, and corporate matters ; advising J.F. Lehman & Company on numerous acquisitions and divestitures (including the acquisition of BAE Systems’ Inertial Products business and the acquisition from Thales, and subsequent divestiture of, Racal Instruments and Racal Acoustics) ; advising Hanson PLC on its $4.8 billion restructuring and re-admission to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange ; and advising financial institutions such as Credit Suisse First Boston, HSBC, J.P. Morgan Cazenove, and Piper Jaffray on numerous IPOs and other offerings. Vica also worked for about a year in the Firm’s New York Office, where she advised on cross-border M&A and securities transactions. She has been repeatedly recommended in the Chambers Europe and Chambers UK guides.
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The Development : The Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the "STCT Act") was signed into law on October 31, 2023, introducing a new investment screening regime in the Republic of Ireland ("Ireland") with a mandatory filing system and a broad call-in power. The Result : (...)
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In Short The Background : Luxembourg has introduced a new foreign direct investment regime with a suspensory mandatory notification requirement in relation to investments in a broad range of sectors. The Result : Investors from outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") will be required to (...)
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In Short The Development : On 1 June 2023, the Security Screening of Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions Act (Wet Veiligheidstoets investeringen, fusies en overnames) ("the FDI Act") entered into force, introducing a mandatory notification requirement relating to investments in target (...)
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The Code Committee (“Code Committee”) of the UK Takeover Panel (“Panel”) has published a consultation paper proposing a number of amendments to the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (“Code”) which, if adopted, will mark a significant departure from the current rules. The Code Committee is (...)
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The competition law regime for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ("COMESA") went live on 14 January 2013 with the creation of a new supra-national African competition law authority, the COMESA Competition Commission ("CCC"). The CCC will review any merger or acquisition where (...)
