Corporate weekly highlights—6 October 2022

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This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of a change in the government’s approach to determining which businesses will fall within exemptions to reporting requirements and regulations, the FRC’s report on the barriers to FTSE 350 senior leadership for people from minority ethnic groups, as well as its thematic review of accounting and reporting for business combinations, and details of the City of London Law Society and the Law Society of England and Wales Company Law Committees’ joint response to the proposed changes to the definition of 'acting in concert' in the Takeover Code. It also highlights our analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA, pay gap reporting in the context of ESG, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill from both a financial services and corporate crime perspective and Rio Tinto’s recent expansion of copper operations.