Listing transactions over Christmas and New Year

This Christmas we are changing our standard turnaround times for reviewing documents and guidance cases as well as the process for listing applications. This is to ensure that the staff working between Christmas and New Year can focus their attention on the most time-sensitive transactions.

When calculating response times for documents and guidance requests, we will not include any of the days from Monday 18 December 2023 to Tuesday 2 January 2024 inclusive. We will still have staff working on 18, 19, 20, 21 and the morning of 22 December, on 27, 28 and the morning of 29 December, and from 2 January. We encourage advisers to contact us early about any time-critical matters.

The table below shows how this works in practice.

For listing applications, we are not accepting hearings for 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 December 2023 and 2 January 2024. We still intend to process changes to the Official List throughout the period (including the dates above) and you can book earlier hearing dates. In addition, Final Terms and Outstanding Conditions received on 22 and 29 December 2023 will need to be submitted by no later than 10:30am for admission the following business day.  Any hearing requests for 3 January 2024 will need to be submitted via the ESS portal by no later than 10:30am on 29 December 2023.

We hope that by giving notice of this you will be able to plan your transactions accordingly. However, if this is likely to cause significant issues please contact us as soon as possible to discuss a suitable approach. For live transactions please speak to your readers. For upcoming cases not yet initiated please contact Elisa Pederiva, Allocation Manager on 020 7066 8336 and for listing applications, you can call 020 7066 8352 or email [email protected].

We will prioritise cases and accept hearings on the dates above, where deadlines are outside the control of the issuer, for example:

• transactions subject to the Takeover Code
• rescue refinancing prospectuses
• situations where financial information in transaction documents risks becoming 'stale' according to the Listing or Prospectus Regulation Rules after 31 December

We will still have staff working on 20, 21 and the morning of 22 December, on 27, 28 and the morning of 29 December, and from 2 January. Subject to the amended turnaround times and hearing dates in the table above we aim to provide a normal service over the holiday period (including processing changes to the Official List, sponsor enquiries, emergency lines and same-day supplement service). We encourage advisers to contact us early about any time-critical matters including approvals and admissions with the contact methods listed above.