Deal analysis: Northern Foods/Greencore merger

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Deal analysis: Northern Foods/Greencore merger

Salman Shaheen
April 18 2011
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If Northern Foods had merged with Greencore, it would have been the first merger involving a UK company structured under the EU Cross-Border Mergers Directive (ECBMD). Salman Shaheen talks to one of the architects of the deal to see what new tax challenges this threw up.

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