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As a lawyer in this area:

 

When the entity is a newco, would the lawyers still run the insolvency checks on the morning of completion? I'm guessing they need to have at least been incorporated the day before to allow a clean search.

 

 

 

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As a lawyer in this area:

 

- It's impossible for that company to be fake. It is possible for it to be fraudulently incorporated but you'd need a lot of personal information about the two directors, and would need to fraudulently impersonate Pinsent Masons, the law firm that has submitted the documents. The company is using PM's own, bespoke articles rather than the model articles, so any fraudster would need to have somehow obtained these as well. In short, it's real.

 

- The two directors are not directors of any other UK company, so whatever they are involved with is something new to them and not run of the mill.

 

- Companies established to acquire assets are often done so one or two days before completion of a deal. In other cases, they are established to ensure they have secured the name they want and then left on file for months while the deal is completed.

 

- It is common for businesses to have more than one law firm acting for them in the M&A sphere, often on different deals. I know that MA has used different law firms in the past. It could well be that Pinsent Masons are acting as UK counsel for the buyer, not the seller. They would need UK lawyers themselves regardless.

 

 

 

Thanks for the explanation! O0

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As a lawyer in this area:

 

When the entity is a newco, would the lawyers still run the insolvency checks on the morning of completion? I'm guessing they need to have at least been incorporated the day before to allow a clean search.

 

You would run the searches on the day of completion - they take ten minutes.

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

If we take Caulkins cryptic tweet earlier & the timeline for registering & completing the last purchase, my guess is Tomorow / Friday

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

I know it Twitter bollocks etc but someone on another nufc forum (what?) Claimed that he'd seen texts from Midhat saying that it would be done (PL checks) this weekend, with confirmation next week. The person was reliable... apparently.

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

It was 2 days between Ashley setting up the company and Hall selling his shares I believe. Has to be soon I would think.

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

I know it Twitter bollocks etc but someone on another nufc forum (what?) Claimed that he'd seen texts from Midhat saying that it would be done (PL checks) this weekend, with confirmation next week. The person was reliable... apparently.

 

I think I posted that tweet a few pages back if anyone wants to look

 

Edit

 

Probably nonsense and should go in the twitter nonsense thread but I’m bored

 

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

If we take Caulkins cryptic tweet earlier & the timeline for registering & completing the last purchase, my guess is Tomorow / Friday

 

Missed this, what tweet?

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This is surely b****** happening!

 

Think so Paully mate go and get a monochrome new shirt to celebrate  :cheesy:

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So potentially, how soon do we reckon?

 

If we take Caulkins cryptic tweet earlier & the timeline for registering & completing the last purchase, my guess is Tomorow / Friday

 

Missed this, what tweet?

 

This one I think

 

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