M&A Foundations · glossary
MiCA is the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation; a CASP is a crypto-asset service provider authorised under it. Buying a qualifying holding in a CASP needs the regulator's prior approval — the condition at the heart of Project Sunrise. SPA definition · Chapter 13
Explained in Chapter 13, Signing to Completion, of M&A Foundations.
Throughout this workbook we follow one fictional deal. Atlas Payments Group plc, a London-listed payments company, is buying Solaris Digital Assets Europe Limited from Meridian Fintech Ventures Limited, a venture capital holding company, for €42 million. Solaris is an Irish crypto-asset service provider authorised under MiCA (the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation). No one may acquire a “qualifying holding” in a MiCA-authorised firm without regulatory approval. So…Read Chapter 1, What M&A Actually Is →
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Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in crypto-assets;Read the definition in the document →
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