This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: publication of our Market Standards report on Trends in UK public M&A in 2025, the FCA’s Primary Market Bulletin 61 containing details of updated guidance in the FCA Knowledge Base ahead of the implementation of the new public offers and admissions to trading regime and a LMA Due Diligence Checklist and user guide on fund structure and fund documentation due diligence underlying subscription facilities.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the QCA’s response to an FCA consultation on the proposed UK Sustainability Reporting Standards and a summary of the case of Jinxin Inc v Auletta and others concerning issues of fraudulent misrepresentation during the due diligence stage of a share purchase transaction.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes the publication of ISS’s 2025 Proxy Voting Guidelines; the Home Office response to the House of Lords Committee report on the Modern Slavery Act; and the FCA’s consultation on the framework for the regulated trading platform for private company shares (PISCES). It also looks at how the EU’s new Listing Act measures will modernise EU capital markets; the publication of ESMA’s new Q&As on key EU financial regulations; and a recent EU Court of Justice case on the application of the Prospectus Regulation.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the Takeover Panel’s publication of a consultation proposing various miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code, DEMAT’s publication of its implementation plan for UK share dematerialisation, HMT’s publication of a new SI and the FCA’s launch of new consultations aimed at reforming, among other matters, the UK regime for AIFMs and AIFs, and analysis of the case of Saxon Woods Investments Ltd and others v Costa concerning breach of fiduciary duty under section 172(1) of the Companies Act 2006.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of the publication of a new issue of Market Watch, a case on notifying warranty and indemnity claims under a share purchase agreement and an update on the progress of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes HM Treasury’s establishment of the DEMAT to progress reforms to the UK’s shareholding framework, the publication of two SIs concerning the UK’s new prospectus regime, the European Parliament’s JURI committee adopting its position on a series of changes to corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, and a recent High Court ruling on director disqualification.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the FCA’s update following the closure of the consultation on the regulatory framework for the PISCES sandbox, news of the postponement of the implementation dates for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, as well as news analysis on the UK’s approach to modern slavery. It additionally includes the Court of Appeal judgments in (i) Syspal Capital Ltd v Truman relating to the interpretation of pre-emption provisions in articles of association and (ii) Kington S.À.R.L. v Thames Water Utilities Holdings Ltd relating to a restructuring plan under Part 26A of the Companies Act 2006.

This week’s edition of Corporate highlights includes the FRC’s consultation on amendments to guidance on the strategic report, an analysis of the pragmatic approach to insolvency adopted by the court in Re Lehman Brothers Europe Ltd (in administration), the Court of Appeal case of Randhawa and another v Turpin and another, the findings by the Investment Association of increasing shareholder dissent among FTSE250 shareholders relation to directors’ remuneration packages and an analysis on Brexit and the third country regimes in EU legislation in relation to the provision of financial services and what this means for UK market participants.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of two new policy statements published by the FCA setting out the final rules to implement the new Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024 and the final rules for the new public offer platform regime. It also covers amendments to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards for certain companies, the FCA’s annual report and accounts for 2024/25 and the removal of the unclaimed estates list from the government website by the Bona Vacantia division.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes analysis of the key proposals in the Employment Rights Bill 2024 and the key changes in the Investment Association’s updated Principles of Remuneration. There is also news of proposals put forward by the Independent Expert Panel on corporate re-domiciliation, which support the introduction of a two-way re-domiciliation regime for non-UK companies and UK companies, as well as the Department of Business and Trade’s response to its consultation on proposals aimed at simplifying the corporate reporting regime.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the London Stock Exchange's Dividend Procedure Timetable 2027, reflecting the UK's planned move to a T+1 settlement cycle, analysis of artificial intelligence disclosures in corporate reporting and the DUAA 2025 provisions establishing the Information Commission coming into force.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes Companies House guidance on how to remove an overseas entity from the Register of Overseas Entities, news of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group preparing guidance to support companies disclosing transition plans, the European Parliament adopting a Directive allowing for a delay in the adoption of sustainability reporting standards for certain sectors, and an unfair prejudice case in which the judge had to consider whether a remedy existed against a third party and publication of the Market Standards Public M&A Trend Report for Q1 2024.