12/12/2025 2:23:37 PM Corporate Law Update: 6 - 12 December 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: Legislation is published to exempt new listings on the Main Market from stamp dutyThe Pre-emption Group publishes its annual...
12/10/2025 2:32:07 PM Macfarlanes advises AIM-traded provider of eyewear solutions Inspecs on takeover process By Harry Coghill Liam McCafferty Macfarlanes is advising Inspecs, an AIM-traded leading provider of eyewear solutions to the global eyewear market, on a competitive...
12/4/2025 5:22:38 PM Corporate Law Update: 29 November - 5 December 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: The court grants an injunction to force a company to circulate a written resolution requisitioned by its shareholdersThe...
12/4/2025 2:42:07 PM Shareholders were entitled to apply to court to circulate written resolution By Dominic Sedghi Jessica Adam Alice Temkin Shareholders in a company were entitled to apply to the court for an order requiring the company to circulate a written resolution to its...
11/28/2025 5:18:42 PM Corporate Law Update: 22 - 28 November 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi Key points from the Autumn Budget for corporate transactionsThe LSE publishes feedback following its discussion paper on the future of...
11/27/2025 12:02:18 PM Investor unable to claim under commercial agreement due to rule against reflective loss By Dominic Sedghi Justin Hope Christopher Charlton An individual who invested indirectly in a property development project through intermediate companies was unable to claim directly under...
11/21/2025 3:29:39 PM Corporate Law Update: 15 - 21 November 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: Companies House publishes new guidance on its approach to enforcing mandatory identity verificationThe FCA approves JP Jenkins...
11/14/2025 11:09:10 AM Corporate Law Update: 8 - 14 November 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: Mandatory identity verification for company directors, LLP members and PSCs comes into effect next weekOther items of interest...
11/7/2025 4:22:09 PM Corporate Law Update: 1 - 7 November 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: Identity verification hits one million people in advance of mandatory IDV coming into force on 18 November 2025Legislation is...
10/31/2025 4:06:07 PM Corporate Law Update: 25 - 31 October 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: Legislation is made to bring mandatory identity verification for company directors and others into force from 18 November...
10/24/2025 2:48:09 PM Corporate Law Update: 18 - 24 October 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi The FCA provides an update on the next steps leading up to the UK’s new public offers of securities and prospectus regimeThe Government...
10/17/2025 4:37:37 PM Corporate Law Update: 11 - 17 October 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi The UK’s new public offers of securities regime will come into force on 19 January 2026A seller of a company breached his non-compete...
10/16/2025 3:50:38 PM Non-competes after the sale of a business – when “helping out” crosses the line By Dominic Sedghi Jessica Adam Joanna Constantis Louise Pereira +1 more... Show less The seller of shares in a company breached non-compete covenants when he made loans and gave assistance to friends who were running rival...
10/10/2025 11:50:08 AM Corporate Law Update: 4 - 10 October 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: The Court of Appeal analyses whether repudiatory breaches of a shareholders’ agreement were capable of remedyA break fee...
10/7/2025 4:03:40 PM Court examines whether breaches of a shareholders’ agreement could be remedied By Dominic Sedghi Lois Horne Alice Temkin The judge had to decide whether the most serious kinds of breach (so-called repudiatory breaches) are ever capable of remedy. The Court...
10/3/2025 10:57:07 AM Corporate Law Update: 27 September - 3 October 2025 By Richard Burrows Dominic Sedghi This week: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) publishes its annual review of corporate reporting for the 2024/2025 seasonOther items...