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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 Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a manual on pre-trade and post-trade transparency under the Markets in Financial...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Handbook Notice 136, setting out amendments to the FCA Handbook and related material approved by...
Employment Analysis: The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025 and was published (in pdf form only) on 19...
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) published a discussion paper that explores the connectivity between financial and...
This week's edition of Corporate Weekly highlights includes the FRC’s decision to launch a consultation on its Draft Annual Plan and Budget 2026–27,...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
Introduction to the EU GDPR and UK GDPRThis Practice Note provides an introduction to both the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation...
Tax on dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs)What is a dividend reinvestment plan and why do companies offer them?A dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) is...
Majority-minority joint venture dispute—a practical illustrationThis Practice Note identifies the key factors you should consider when advising a...
Charities—governing documentsCharities can adopt a variety of different legal forms or structures. A charity’s governing documents will depend on the...
Active bribery, passive bribery and bribing foreign public officialsThe Bribery Act 2010 (BA 2010) criminalises:•bribing another person (active...
Latest Corporate Precedents
Share purchase agreement—pro-buyer—individual sellers—unconditional—long formThis Agreement is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert...
Notice of AGM of a listed public companyTHIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTIONIf you are in any doubt about the action you...
Notice of general meeting of a listed public companyTHIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTIONIf you are in any doubt as to any...
Letter—resignation from directorshipThe [Company Secretary OR Directors][insert company name][insert company address][Insert date]Dear [[insert name]...
Novation agreement—long formThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of party] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under...
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
Reserved matters
A list of veto rights negotiated between the joint venture parties and included in the joint venture agreement which require the consent of a simple majority, a special majority, a super majority or unanimous consent of the joint venture parties before any action can be taken.
Roadshow
Part of the marketing process of an IPO or secondary offer, an investor roadshow is a series of meetings between the senior management of an issuer and potential investors and normally lasts one or two weeks. An investor presentation will have been prepared to be used in the roadshow which will provide information on the company, its business, key management, strategic direction etc designed to ‘sell’ the company.
Takeover Panel
The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, an independent body established in 1968, whose main functions are to issue and administer the Code and to supervise and regulate takeovers and other matters to which the Code applies in accordance with the rules set out in the Code. Its statutory functions are set out in and under CA 2006, ss 942–965 (Chapter 1 of Part 28).
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