scheme of arrangement

    (in COLL) an arrangement relating to an authorised fund ("transferor fund") or to a sub-fund of a scheme that is an umbrella ("transferor sub-fund") under which:

      1. (a) either:
        1. (i) all or part of the property of the transferor fund, or all or part of the property attributed to the transferor sub-fund, is to become the property of one or more regulated collective investment schemes ("transferee schemes "); or
        1. (ii) all or part of the property attributed to the transferor sub-fund is to become part of the property attributed to one or more other sub-funds of the same umbrella ("transferee sub-funds "); and
      1. (b) holders of units in the transferor fund or transferor sub-fund, the property of which is being transferred or reattributed under (a), are to receive, in exchange for their respective interests in that property, either:
        1. (i) units in the transferee scheme or one or more of the transferee schemes, to which the property is transferred; or
        1. (ii) units in the transferee sub-fund or one or more of the transferee sub-funds, to which the property is reattributed.
        This arrangement includes an arrangement that constitutes a domestic UCITS merger.
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