Lexis®PSL Corporate weekly highlights—10 March 2016

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Welcome to the weekly highlights from the Lexis®PSL Corporate team for the week ending 10 March 2016, which provides news updates and a comprehensive list of dates for your diary. This week’s edition includes updates on draft regulations that seek to align the accounting regulatory framework for LLPs with those for limited companies, a BIS discussion paper on proposals to improve transparency on the beneficial ownership of foreign companies that purchase land or property in England and Wales or enter into public procurement contracts in England, EC delegated regulations supplementing the Prospectus Directive and Market Abuse Directive, new EU rules on tax information sharing by multinational companies, a Charity Commission report on governance issues at the BETL charity, FRC guidance on how matters such as volatile asset prices and uncertainty over interest rates in certain jurisdictions should be dealt with in annual reports and accounts and a set of due diligence questionnaires for hedge fund managers issued by the AIMA. From other practice areas we have...