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Corporate weekly highlights—24 March 2022

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Published on: 24 March 2022

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This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of Primary Market Bulletin 39, in which the FCA announced the end of its temporary coronavirus (COVID-19) measures; the response of the CLLS and Law Society to the Takeover Panel’s December 2021 consultation, PCP 2021/1; updates to the checklist prepared by a Networking for Knowhow working group for use when conducting an electronic signing on a corporate or commercial transaction; consideration of the potential ramifications, and practical steps to take, if there is an accidental breach of UK financial sanctions; and Market Tracker analysis looking at the dispute between ShareAction and HSBC Holdings plc over the ‘spirit’ of a climate change resolution.

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