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Private mergers and acquisition
A range of precedents including 15 versions of the share purchase agreement. They’re supported with a suite of additional clauses to cover off different transaction structures.
Share capital topics
Guidance with key actions for shares you’ve issued or allotted to stakeholders. Practice Notes and Q&As take you through procedures needed by statute, analyse developments in case law, and tackle tricky technical points.
Current awareness, horizon-scanning and trackers
Weekly highlights newsletter feature the latest key news stories by topic. It’s supplemented by a horizon-scanning document, looking at key developments affecting corporate lawyers in the months ahead.
Corporate clients
One day you might be advising an entrepreneur on a new start up. Another you’re facilitating a fundraising on the financial markets. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Corporate is the place to start.
Topics We Cover
Latest Corporate News
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: updated government guidance on information sharing measures under the Economic Crime and...
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Chair Dame Vera Baird KC has directed His Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) to...
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)-Corporate published its review of the 2025 UK and Ireland AGM season, highlighting a heightened focus on...
Ireland-Banking and Financial Services analysis: This article was written by Ciaran Flynn and Daibhi O’Leary of Arthur Cox LLP....
E3G has published survey results of a YouGov survey of 2,500 business leaders across Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland, assessing their views...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
Brexit timelineOn 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU. On 29...
Case tracker—2025—CorporateThis case tracker displays the current status of, and most recent developments in, key cases relevant to corporate...
Comfort lettersComfort letters are encountered in finance transactions relatively often. They take different forms and it is important from both the...
Corporate transactions and service provision changes (employment)—data protection issuesFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, which...
Share schemes implications of transferring companies and businesses within a groupIntroductionGroups of companies undertake reorganisations for many...
Latest Corporate Precedents
Board minutes—private M&A—asset purchase—exchange and completion—buyerCompany number: [insert company number][insert company name] [limited OR...
Notice to Companies House of resolutions passed at AGM—private company or unlisted public companyCompany number: [insert number]The companies act...
Ordinary resolution of a company to approve a payment to a director for loss of office in connection with a transfer of the undertaking or property of...
Written resolutions of the members of a private company approving a guarantee for a loanCompany number: [insert number]The companies act 2006Private...
Board minutes for the approval or ratification of a company’s entry into a guarantee and indemnityCOMPANY NUMBER: [insert company number][insert...
Latest Corporate Q&As
Featured Corporate content
Separate legal personality and the corporate veil
Separate legal personality and the corporate veilCorporate legal personality—the Salomon principleA properly formed registered company is a separate...
A company’s constitution
A company’s constitutionWhat is a company's constitution?A company’s 'constitution' is defined under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) as...
Allotment and issue of shares—fundamentals
Allotment and issue of shares—fundamentalsSTOP PRESS: A significant restructuring of the UK listing regime came into effect on 29 July 2024, which...
Private companies limited by shares
Private companies limited by sharesThis Practice Note summarises the main features of a private company limited by shares. It also covers key...
Holding an AGM of a private company or unlisted public company
Holding an AGM of a private company or unlisted public companyThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidelines and market practice relating to the...
Removal of a director
Removal of a directorThis note should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Appointment, retirement and resignation of a director.For an...
Unlimited companies
Unlimited companiesThis Practice Note summarises the main features of an unlimited company and why an unlimited company might be used as a vehicle to...
Loan notes—fundamentals
Loan notes—fundamentalsThis fundamentals note considers some of the key characteristics of loan notes which may be issued by a private limited company...
Private equity investment—ratchets
Private equity investment—ratchetsA ratchet in private equity is a mechanism to vary the amount of equity held by founders, managers and employees...
Directors’ remuneration
Directors’ remunerationCompany directors are not, by virtue only of their office as director, automatically entitled under company law to remuneration...
Drag along and tag along—fundamentals
Drag along and tag along—fundamentalsDrag along and tag along rights are common provisions in private equity (PE)/venture capital (VC) and corporate...
A guide to share purchase agreements
A guide to share purchase agreementsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in a private limited...
Transfer of shares—law and procedure
Transfer of shares—law and procedureThere are a number of circumstances in which shares in a company may be transferred, the most common of which are...
Companies limited by guarantee
Companies limited by guaranteeWhat is a company limited by guarantee?Limited companies can be either limited by shares or by guarantee. A company...
Quorum requirements for general meetings (including AGMs)
Quorum requirements for general meetings (including AGMs)This Practice Note summarises the law relating to quorum requirements for a company’s general...
Company records—a company's statutory registers
Company records—a company's statutory registersThe Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) requires companies to keep the following statutory registers:•the...
Fiduciary duties of directors
Fiduciary duties of directorsThis Practice Note summarises the traditional fiduciary duties of company directors, including the duty to act in the...
Share certificates
Share certificatesShares in a company can be issued as certificated shares or uncertificated shares.Shares issued by private companies and unlisted...
Associated legal terms
Listed security
Any security that is admitted to listing on the Official List maintained by the FCA.
Qualifying partnership
A partnership in which all partners are companies.
When issued dealing
Also called ‘conditional’ dealing, a period of dealing with deferred settlement. It usually takes place in securities that are due to be listed or admitted to trading on one of the markets of the LSE allowing market participants to trade a new issue ahead of its full listing and/or admission on an organised and regulated basis. Trades in this period are conditional on the security being listed or admitted to trading and only settle when this event has happened. If listing or admission to trading does not occur all transactions effected during this period are declared void by the LSE. See the LSE’s guide to when issued dealing for more information.
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