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Private mergers and acquisition
A range of precedents including 15 versions of the share purchase agreement. They’re supported with a suite of additional clauses to cover off different transaction structures.
Share capital topics
Guidance with key actions for shares you’ve issued or allotted to stakeholders. Practice Notes and Q&As take you through procedures needed by statute, analyse developments in case law, and tackle tricky technical points.
Current awareness, horizon-scanning and trackers
Weekly highlights newsletter feature the latest key news stories by topic. It’s supplemented by a horizon-scanning document, looking at key developments affecting corporate lawyers in the months ahead.
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One day you might be advising an entrepreneur on a new start up. Another you’re facilitating a fundraising on the financial markets. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Corporate is the place to start.
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Latest Corporate News
Corporate analysis: Market Standards has conducted research to examine the current trends in UK public M&A for the period 1 July 2026 to 30 September...
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the Investment Association's updated guidance on virtual AGM participation and...
The Investment Association (IA) has published updated guidance on virtual participation in annual general meetings (AGMs), favouring hybrid meetings...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has responded to HMRC consultation on modernising the taxation of company distributions and...
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the FCA's new sustainability disclosure requirements for listed issuers, applying UK...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
FORTHCOMING CHANGE: This Practice Note reflects the current legislative position, however, note that certain elements may be impacted by the Digital...
This Practice Note provides a summary of the UK GDPR regime. For a higher-level introduction to UK data protection laws, see Practice Note: Data...
This Practice Note provides further guidance on key definitions used in the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation...
The purpose of environmental due diligenceThe purpose of environmental due diligence is to:•assess the risk of contaminated land liabilities at...
Producer responsibility regimes—liability framework This Practice Note provides an overview of the principal liability framework that applies under...
Latest Corporate Precedents
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Name of company], a company incorporated in England with registered number [insert company number] whose...
Company number: [insert company number][insert company name] [LIMITED OR PLC] Minutes of a meeting of the board of directors (the Meeting) of [insert...
This [Agreement OR DEED] is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[insert name of buyer] [of [insert address] OR trading as [insert...
[insert company name] [LIMITED OR PLC] (the Company)At a meeting of the board of directors of the Company held on [insert date], the following...
Company number: [insert number]The companies act 2006[Private OR Public] company limited by sharesResolution[S] of[insert...
Latest Corporate Q&As
Featured Corporate content
Separate legal personality and the corporate veil
Separate legal personality and the corporate veilCorporate legal personality—the Salomon principleA properly formed registered company is a separate...
A company’s constitution
A company’s constitutionWhat is a company's constitution?A company’s 'constitution' is defined under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) as...
Allotment and issue of shares—fundamentals
Allotment and issue of shares—fundamentalsSTOP PRESS: A significant restructuring of the UK listing regime came into effect on 29 July 2024, which...
Private companies limited by shares
Private companies limited by sharesThis Practice Note summarises the main features of a private company limited by shares. It also covers key...
Holding an AGM of a private company or unlisted public company
Holding an AGM of a private company or unlisted public companyThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidelines and market practice relating to the...
Removal of a director
Removal of a directorThis note should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Appointment, retirement and resignation of a director.For an...
Unlimited companies
Unlimited companiesThis Practice Note summarises the main features of an unlimited company and why an unlimited company might be used as a vehicle to...
Loan notes—fundamentals
Loan notes—fundamentalsThis fundamentals note considers some of the key characteristics of loan notes which may be issued by a private limited company...
Private equity investment—ratchets
Private equity investment—ratchetsA ratchet in private equity is a mechanism to vary the amount of equity held by founders, managers and employees...
Directors’ remuneration
Directors’ remunerationCompany directors are not, by virtue only of their office as director, automatically entitled under company law to remuneration...
Drag along and tag along—fundamentals
Drag along and tag along—fundamentalsDrag along and tag along rights are common provisions in private equity (PE)/venture capital (VC) and corporate...
A guide to share purchase agreements
A guide to share purchase agreementsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in a private limited...
Transfer of shares—law and procedure
Transfer of shares—law and procedureThere are a number of circumstances in which shares in a company may be transferred, the most common of which are...
Companies limited by guarantee
Companies limited by guaranteeWhat is a company limited by guarantee?Limited companies can be either limited by shares or by guarantee. A company...
Quorum requirements for general meetings (including AGMs)
Quorum requirements for general meetings (including AGMs)This Practice Note summarises the law relating to quorum requirements for a company’s general...
Company records—a company's statutory registers
Company records—a company's statutory registersThe Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) requires companies to keep the following statutory registers:•the...
Fiduciary duties of directors
Fiduciary duties of directorsThis Practice Note summarises the traditional fiduciary duties of company directors, including the duty to act in the...
Share certificates
Share certificatesShares in a company can be issued as certificated shares or uncertificated shares.Shares issued by private companies and unlisted...
Associated legal terms
Class rights
A company having a share capital may have separate classes of shares. A type of share will form a separate class if the rights attached to it differ from those attaching to other shares of the company. Different classes include ordinary shares, preference shares, deferred shares and redeemable shares.
IAS accounts
A company's individual accounts or group accounts prepared in accordance with international accounting standards.
Kay Review
A review commissioned by the UK government into UK equity markets and long-term decision making, chaired by Professor John Kay. The final report, The Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision Making, was published on 23 July 2012.
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