The CBB will not regard it appropriate to appoint any person who is in the same group as the professional adviser (including a stockbroker) to an offeror or the offeree company or who has, or had, a significant connection, financial or otherwise, with either an offeror or the offeree company, or the controlling shareholder(s) of either of them, of a kind likely to create, or to create the perception of, a conflict of interest, or reasonably likely to affect the objectivity of his advice.