| ROYALMAIL | UK company being bought by Czech billionaire (5,4) |
| LINKEDIN | Which professional networking website is being bought by Microsoft for $26 billion? (8) |
| DOITALL | Trading name of LCP Home Improvements Limited after being bought by WHSmith in 1978 (2,2,3) |
| SIMPATICO | Rascal entertained by composer no end, company being congenial |
| OCTILLION | A great number in lively dance company being held back |
| OUTSOURCE | Buy from another company, being courteous to engineer? |
| INVOICED | Was billed by company, being in dive by mistake (8) |
| LALALANNES | NBA's Lakers, after being bought out by fitness guru Jack? |
| LOCKOUT | Bar employees in UK company working in film studio (4,3) |
| BESTSELLING | Being bought more quickly than others, especially of a book (11) |
| ABET | Assist a leading UK company to conserve energy (4) |
| LAREVUEDECUISINE | One act ballet by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu (2,5,2,7) |
| ROBOTS | Word coined by Czech playwright Karel Capek for mechanical humanoids (6) |
| RUSALKA | Opera by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak about a water nymph (7) |
| LTD | UK company, often |
| PLC | Designation of any UK company that can offer shares to the public (abbr.) (3) |
| OFFICIAL | Refuse to accept former chemical company being authorised (8) |
| CAIRO | City company being ventilated, it appears (5) |
| NOAH | He floated a company, being interested in conservation (4) |
| JENNINGS | Jack no good in heptathlete's company, being a bookish schoolboy? (8) |
