Talking of black and white...when that Arab consortium was rumoured to be buying Newcastle in the summer great play was made of the discovery the prospective buyer had registered a UK company, Monochrome PLC or somesuch. No takeover transpired.
So yes- possibly some kind of preparatory thing. But by no means indication of a done deal.
I know b*gger all about company law etc by the way. Just going on that precedent up in the NE.