This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes the latest developments on Brexit, including the Royal Assent of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020, final preparations for exit day and the European Commission’s Brexit Q&As, as well as guidance from the Competition and Markets Authority on how Brexit will affect its powers and processes. It also looks at a recent case, Russell v Cartwright and others, on whether fiduciary duties or obligations of good faith were found or implied between parties in a joint venture and a Quoted Companies Alliance survey showing investor concerns over de-equitisation.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes publication of the Market Standard’s Trend Report covering trends in UK Public M&A deals in 2024. It also includes publication of the PLSA Stewardship and Voting Guidelines 2025 and regulations under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 in respect of identity verification. Additionally, it covers the publication of regulations amending the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, SI 2017/395 and the Limited Liability Partnerships (Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/425. The highlights also feature a Court of Appeal decision relating to securities actions under sections 90, 90A and Schedule 10A to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 concerning the claimant’s use of the representative action procedure provided for under CPR 19.8 to bring proceedings on behalf of institutional and retail investors claiming in respect of alleged fraudulent statements and dishonest omissions in published information.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes the FRC's guidance on applying materiality in corporate reporting and publication of its Annual Enforcement Review 2026. It also covers a High Court judgment on directors' duties and derivative claims arising from the operation of a competing business, together with analysis of the interaction between unfair prejudice petitions and the rule against reflective loss.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes, alongside publication by the Department for Business and Trade of its report on the first six months of implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, publication by Companies House of draft identity verification rules and publication of the draft Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 which deal with the circumstances in which an individual’s usual residential address on the companies register can be protected or disclosed. Additionally, the highlights include news that the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 has received royal assent and that the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive has been adopted.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes publication of the Market Standards trend report on UK public M&A in Q3 2025, news of further implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, the publication of Primary Market Bulletin 59 and a fine issued by the FCA for insider dealing.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes the launching of the 2025 Global Benchmark Policy Survey by the ISS, the publication by the FRC of Primary Market Bulletin 57 together with associated consultation and finalised guidance and a judgment involving the dismissal of an appeal relating to unfair prejudicial conduct.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes detailed analysis and expert commentary on the impact of the Autumn Budget 2024, including measures concerning CGT and inheritance tax that impact the sale of shares, investment in AIM companies and carried interest for private equity managers. Other items include news of the Institute of Directors launching its Code of Conduct for Directors and an analysis of updated enforcement policy guidance issued by Companies House, together with commentary on the approach it appears to be taking in practice towards ensuring compliance.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of two new statutory instruments: one relating to the imposition of financial penalties for certain offences under the Companies Act 2006 and the other dealing with changes to the regime for reporting on payment practices and performance.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the FCA’s publication of new prospectus rules forms and checklists ahead of the new regime coming into force on 19 January 2026; new Companies House guidance on completing identity verification at Post Office branches; the FRC’s review of private company reporting under the Wates Principles; an FCA consultation on proposals to ensure that environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings are ‘transparent, reliable and comparable’; and the Takeover Panel’s confirmation of changes to rules on dual class share structures, IPO disclosures and share buybacks.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: details of the cases of Re Network International Holdings Plc in which the Chancery Division held it had the jurisdiction to vary/extend the long stop date for a scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development v Vysoka where the Commercial Court allowed EBRD’s application for default judgment and granted a final injunction that restrained the defendants from proceeding with and passing any resolution to increase the share capital of a company subject to a shareholders’ agreement, and Wagner v Bright Station Ventures Management Ltd, in which the King's Bench Division ruled among other matters on whether certain directors’ duties had been breached in relation to losses allegedly suffered by a company as a result of its director’s failure to ensure that the relevant company had maintained proper books, records and accounts.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: Companies House's publication of an equality impact assessment of its identity verification service, draft Regulations amending the Register of Overseas Entities protection regime and certain LLP disclosure requirements, and the FRC's consultation on revisions to ISA (UK) 620 and ISAE (UK) 3000. It also covers a High Court judgment on the construction of option provisions in a shareholders' agreement entered into as part of a JV transaction.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: analysis of the failure to prevent fraud offence under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023), the announcement by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service of the expansion of its self-reporting policy for businesses to report economic crimes and the update of the Department of Business and Trade’s guidance on the register of overseas entities, with detail new trust information access provisions effective from 31 August 2025.