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As the SNC Lavalin鈥檚 (SNCL) multi-billion pound takeover of Atkins completed today, news emerged that a redundancy process affecting nearly 200 design staff at the UK firm was underway.

According to sources within Atkins, 186 design staff across the company鈥檚 UK operation have been notified that they would be put under a consultation process, with a view to 92 of them being made redundant following the takeover, with the deal prompting the move.

A spokesman for Atkins confirmed the 92 jobs would go but denied a link between the takeover and the redundancy plan. In a statement it said: 鈥淲e continually assess our UK markets and are now seeing increasing uncertainty and more challenging conditions. 

鈥淯nfortunately, after careful consideration, we have had to take the difficult decision to make 92 roles redundant in our UK infrastructure division鈥檚 building design practice. 

鈥淭his is not connected to the SNCL takeover and we will seek to redeploy as many people as possible to other roles.鈥�

SNC tabled its recommended bid, valuing Atkins at around 拢2.1bn, in April. The proposed deal was last month.

Atkins announced today that its shares were being de-listed from the London Stock Excgange and that its chairman Allan Edward Cook and chief executive Uwe Krueger had tendered their resignations and were stepping down from the board with immediate effect, along with five non-executive directors. 

The UK firm recently revealed it had , and posting a 13% increase in pre-tax profits to 拢148m.