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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.
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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.
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Latest Corporate News
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 which sets out the European Sustainability...
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: two new Practice Statements and a consultation issued by the Takeover Panel, a new set of...
The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) has published a new suite of boardroom guides, including updated versions of its Remuneration Committee Guide and...
Corporate analysis: The Code Committee of the Takeover Panel (Panel) has published a consultation paper, PCP 2025/1, proposing amendments to the...
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has published two exposure drafts proposing amendments to the Sustainability Accounting...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
The AIFM Directive [Archived]ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note considered the key themes of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive...
Most favoured nation provisions and their use in private equity fundsIntroductionA most favoured nation (MFN) clause entitles an investor to have...
Drafting and negotiating ancillary documents to the equity component in a private equity buyout transactionThis Practice Note is part of the Lexis+®...
UKLR Resource Note—UKLR 5—Equity shares (commercial companies): requirements for admission to listingThis Resource Note highlights relevant...
UKLR Resource Note—UKLR 8—Equity shares (commercial companies): related party transactionsThis Resource Note highlights relevant commentary, analysis...
Latest Corporate Precedents
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Notice of court meeting—schemeNotice OF COURT MEETINGIn the high court of justiceBUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES companies court...
Board minutes—general partner (private limited company)—limited partnershipCOMPANY number: [insert company number][insert COMPANY name] LIMITED acting...
Minutes—general partner (LLP)—limited partnershipregistration number: OC: [insert registration number][insert name] LLP acting in its capacity as the...
Letter to directors in an insolvency situation warning of main legal risksYou recently came to see us/contacted us as a director of a company in...
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
AGM
See Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Connected persons
Persons connected with a director of a company as defined in CA 2006, ss 252–255, including members of the director's family, a body corporate with which the director is connected, a person acting in their capacity as trustee of a trust (the beneficiaries of which include the director or persons connected with that director), or a person acting in their capacity as partner of the director (or of a person connected with that director). The relevance of connected persons is emphasised in relation to transactions requiring shareholder approval under CA 2006, Pt 10. In relation to listed companies, Chapter 11 of the Listing Rules regulates the conduct of related party transactions between a listed company and its related parties, the definition of which includes any 'associate’ of that party. The definition of associate can be found in the Glossary to the FCA Handbook and has similarities to the definition of connected persons under the CA 2006.
Payment waterfall
See liquidation preference
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