A recent ruling classing early retirement benefits as the responsibility of the acquiring company in an asset deal will add "cost and uncertainty" to mergers and acquisitions, Mercer says.
Last month a high court judge ruled in the case Proctor & Gamble vs Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget that the transferee in an acquisition - the company acquiring a business - is responsible for earl...
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