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Material Disclosure

A listed company's obligation to inform the exchanges of events that could affect its securities' price.

Test: the event meets a prescribed materiality threshold or the company's own policy, and is disclosed within the specified timeline qualitative Corporate Actions, Dividends & Governance

Merger

The combination of two companies into a single entity, with one absorbing the other or both forming a new company.

Test: the transferor company's assets, liabilities and shareholders move into the transferee company under an approved scheme qualitative Corporate Actions, Dividends & Governance

Minimum Public Shareholding

The regulatory requirement that at least a stated proportion of a listed company's shares be held by the public.

Test: public shareholding is at least 25% of total shares, with a longer timeline permitted for certain state-owned companies %