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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 news of publication by the Department for Business and Trade of its second annual progress...
The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (the Upper Tribunal) has upheld the FCA’s decisions that Craig Donaldson and David Arden, former chief...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published its second annual progress report on the implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate...
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes publication of the FCA’s final rules for the PISCES sandbox to allow trading in private...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published final reports on the EU Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129) and...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
Voluntary environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) reportingTrend towards environmental, social governance or sustainability reportingThe...
Property development joint ventures—acting for a developerStructureReasons for the developer to form a JVThere are a number of reasons why the...
Investment Association (IA) Public registerEvolution of the IA public registerIn November 2016, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial...
In-house lawyer essentials: key issues in a lending transactionThe extent of an in-house counsel’s involvement in a lending transaction will be...
Brexit—implications for data protection [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note provides information on the Data Protection, Privacy and...
Latest Corporate Precedents
Assignment agreementThis AGREEMENT is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of Assignor] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under...
Deed of contribution—buyout—management sellersThis Deed is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1The several persons whose names and...
Stamp duty adjudication letterFORTHCOMING CHANGE relating to the modernisation of stamp taxes on shares framework: Following the call for evidence in...
Application letter—stamp duty group relief—FA 1930, s 42FORTHCOMING CHANGE relating to the modernisation of stamp taxes on shares framework: Following...
Seller’s warranty operative provision—pro-buyer—conditional or unconditional—share purchase agreementInsert the following as new definitions (if not...
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
LR
See the Listing Rules.
Pre-emption rights
An existing shareholder’s right to be the first to be offered shares that are to be allotted by a company or transferred by another shareholder. Section 561 of the Companies Act 2006 applies pre-emption rights to an allotment of equity securities, subject to exceptions.
Special notice
In the context of notice given for the general meetings of a company, special notice will be required at a general meeting at which resolutions are proposed to remove a director from office (or appoint somebody in place of a director so removed at the same meeting); remove an auditor from office; and appoint auditors where there has been a failure to re-appoint the existing auditors. Where special notice is required for a resolution, the resolution will not be effective unless notice of the intention to move it has been given to the company at least 28 clear days before the meeting at which it is moved.
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