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Since the first edition was published in 2004, there have been significant policy and technical developments in the use of schemes of arrangement to effect change of control transactions in Australia.

This long awaited second edition contains a new, comprehensive review of the law and practice, as well as a discussion of the policy debate. It includes chapters on the following topics:

• The regulatory landscape: acquiring widely held Australian companies
• The scheme procedure
• The scheme approval process
• The principal scheme documents
• Classes, interests and equality of opportunity in schemes
• Deal protection devices
• The role of schemes of arrangement
• Other transactions by way of scheme
• The early history and Parliament's approach
• Interpretation and application of s411(17)
• The overseas experience in various following jurisdictions
• Passing up Everest: in defence of schemes of arrangement
• Schemes: the future