This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the coming into force of substantive provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 following the publication of second commencement regulations, analysis of the 2024 Spring Budget looking at the key business tax announcements and the key financial services announcements and the publication of the Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024, the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Commencement No. 8) Regulations 2024.

This week’s edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes the European Commission’s consultation on revisions to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, the FRC’s final revisions to ISA (UK) 240 and ISA (UK) 570 on fraud and going concern, and ESMA’s call for evidence on the structure of EU equity markets. It also covers High Court decisions on shareholdings and contractual intention in a property development joint venture, and rectification of company registers and director appointments following disputed Companies House filings.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: The third commencement regulations made under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2003); new government guidance on the failure to prevent fraud criminal offence under the ECCTA 2023; the publication of draft regulations under the ECCTA 2023 to extend the Registrar of Companies power to allocate Unique Identifiers (UIDs) to verified individuals associated with all business entities, new implementing regulations connecting with bringing into force ECCTA 2023 changes to limited liability partnership (LLP) legislation; a statement from the Takeover Panel with its response to a previous consultation on plans to narrowing the scope of the companies to which the Code applies; and the Transition Plan Taskforce’s final report on its work establishing a Disclosure Framework to help businesses create robust disclosures on their plans to reduce future carbon impact.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of the FRC’s consultation on revisions to its guidance for companies on the going concern basis of accounting and related reporting. Also, the Private Equity Reporting Group (PERG) and the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) have launched a consultation on updates to the Walker Guidelines for disclosure and transparency in the private equity industry.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: a new Market Standards trend report on ethnicity pay gap reporting in 2023; the publication of a thematic review by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) of reporting at the UK’s largest private companies; the issue of a new draft Regulations to make amendments to primary and secondary legislation regarding certain provisions of, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023; and the announcement that the Council of the EU and European Parliament have reached a provisional deal on a listing act.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of two draft statutory guidance documents on the meaning of ‘significant influence or control’ for the purposes of PSC regime, a EFRAG discussion paper exploring the connectivity of financial and sustainability reporting and two cases of interest: one in which HMRC uses its power to seek the winding up of a tax avoidance scheme promoter under the Finance Act 2022 for the first time and a second that considers what constitutes a transaction at an undervalue under the Insolvency Act 1986.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the publication of technical advice by the European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA) as part of the implementation of the European Listing Act, and a Scottish case relating to a refusal of a reclaiming motion concerning an alleged conspiracy to conclude an investment and share purchase agreement. This week’s edition also includes free access to a webinar on corporate governance developments in 2024 and 2025, presented by expert speakers, courtesy of LexisNexis® Webinars.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of Primary Market Bulletin 62 and updated guidance on how employers may produce action plans tackling the gender pay gap and menopause support.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: final Regulations to align company law provisions for limited liability partnerships with recent reforms in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023; the publication of a Policy Statement by the Financial Conduct Authority to set out its plans for enhancing the National Storage Mechanism; the publication of a government assessment report on the National Security and Investment Act and the coming into force of the EU Gender Balance Directive.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes revised EU sustainability reporting standards, a new House of Lords human rights and environmental due diligence Bill, and FCA Primary Market Bulletin 64 on total voting rights disclosures and significant transaction notifications.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes news of the publication of a new EU Directive concerning the time limits for the adoption of sustainability reporting standards and an updated confirmation statement form for limited liability partnerships.

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: updated government guidance on information sharing measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, an ISS-Corporate review of the 2025 UK AGM season highlighting growing scrutiny of executive pay and the implementation of new remuneration guidance, and a YouGov survey commissioned by E3G revealing strong EU business support for corporate sustainability and due diligence rules. It also covers the recent case of Spill Bidco Ltd v Wishart which considered whether a former director breached reasonable restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties by providing financial and operational support to competing businesses.