Using Market Standards

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Market Standards—key features

Market Standards is a corporate transaction analysis product.

At its heart is a deal data analysis tool which allows users to locate, analyse and compare data in relation to key aspects of public company corporate transactions. Market Standards covers 11 transaction or ‘deal' types, including takeovers, initial public offerings (IPOs) and secondary offers.

Market Standards’ key features are:

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detailed, searchable summaries of the latest public company transactions, containing narrative and key data points extracted by our Market Standards team from company announcements made on the London Stock Exchange Regulatory News Service
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a comprehensive and fully searchable library of company announcements/transaction documentation (free text and filtered searches to find sample drafting to use)
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daily and weekly updates on the latest transaction and market news,

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Latest Corporate News

FCA publishes guidance on good and poor practice for SDR sustainability labels

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published guidance on good and poor practice for using labels under the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime. The guidance, published on 27 February 2026, provides examples for each of the four sustainability labels: Sustainability Focus, Sustainability Improvers, Sustainability Impact, and Sustainability Mixed Goals. The examples are based on findings from the fund authorisations process for updating pre-contractual disclosures and engagement with industry stakeholders since firms became able to use sustainability labels in July 2024. The guidance is intended to help firms prepare pre-contractual disclosures and references rules in the Environmental, Social and Governance sourcebook (ESG) 4.2 and ESG 5.3, as well as the anti-greenwashing rule and guidance (FG24/3). The FCA noted that applications to update pre-contractual disclosures have improved as firms have become more familiar with the requirements and the number of labels on the market has increased, though it has not always been clear whether firms meet the labelling requirements or whether disclosures accurately reflect fund investments.

MoJ introduces Courts and Tribunals Bill to Parliament

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has introduced the Courts and Tribunals Bill to Parliament. Under the Bill, defendants will no longer have the right to elect a Crown Court trial in triable-either-way cases and automatic appeal rights from magistrates’ courts will be replaced by a permission-based system. The legislation establishes a new Bench Division within the Crown Court to handle triable-either-way cases expected to result in custodial sentences of three years or less, which will be tried by a judge alone. It also provides for judge-alone trials in technical and lengthy fraud cases.

Corporate weekly highlights—26 February 2026

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of Law Society guidance on identity verification, the publication of UK SRS S1 and S2, clarification from the FCA on the overlap between the admission to trading notification requirements set out in PRM 1.6.4R and those set out in certain UKLRs, as well as analysis of three cases: one on the use of a Syers order on the dissolution of a partnership, a second on when the limitation period for unpaid share subscriptions begins to run and a third on the deemed execution of documents under CA 2006.

Committee MEPs approve Omnibus IV simplification rules for small mid caps

The European Parliament committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and Environment, Climate and Food Safety have endorsed proposals introducing a new category of small mid-cap enterprises (SMCs) and extending certain SME exemptions to them. MEPs propose defining SMCs as companies with fewer than 1,000 employees and either up to €200m in turnover or up to €172m in total assets. The development aims to avoid ‘cliff-edge’ situations as firms grow beyond SME status and to boost EU competitiveness.