Company Law

These Regulations come into force on 30th April 2013 and extend to the whole of the United Kingdom, reflecting the extent of the Companies Act 2006...

Following approvals from both UK houses of parliament, the UK Government's changes to the Companies Act 2006 to help promote employee ownership come into effect...

As of 30 April 2013, it has become slightly easier for private companies to buy back their own shares, including shares held by employees...

The Enterprise & Regulatory Reform Bill, which is set to be given Royal Assent soon, is set to have a dramatic impact for the world of designers, manufacturers, publishers and museums as it increases the duration of copyright protection for certain artistic works from 25 years to the authors full life plus 70 years...

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, which is set to be given Royal Assent soon, represents the most significant change to UK competition law in over a decade...

Topics in this issue:

Public company
The dilemma of the dissenting director

A question of identity
It is open to a director/shareholder to vote differently in each capacity in relation to the removal of a director

A question of identity
How to decide if someone is employed or self-employed for tax purposes

Carrot and stick
EU encourages compliance whilst imposing record fine on cartel

Stop press...Mongolia Investment Summit - London

Topics in this issue:

London Stock Exchange launches High Growth Segment

New charges registration regime

This Memorandum of Understanding concerns the arrangements for co-operation and co-ordination between the FRC and the FCA in carrying out their respective regulatory responsibilities, under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Financial Services Act 2012 - for the FCA - and various responsibilities including statutory responsibilities under the Companies Act 2006 and the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 for the FRC...

This note considers some of the structures available to an AIM Company seeking to raise further funds by issuing new shares...

Following last weeks’ report from the Banking Standards Commission in which three former senior executives of HBOS were heavily criticised thoughts have turned to whether or not there is enough evidence for the executives to have disqualification proceedings brought against them...

The recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp and others emphasises the strength of the principle of separate corporate identity and indicates that the English courts will allow the corporate veil to be pierced only in very exceptional circumstances - and not in order to treat the company’s alter ego as a co-contracting party...

New regulations come into force on 6 April 2013. They change the way in which security created by LLPs and UK Companies on and after 6 April 2013 is to be registered at Companies House...

In the last 12 months we have seen a number of members of ownermanaged companies finding themselves in dispute with minority shareholders...

The Regulations amend the Companies Act 2006 to replace the scheme for the registration of charges created by companies incorporated under the Act. New Chapter A1 of Part 25 sets out a single scheme which applies to companies irrespective of the place of registration of the company in the UK...

The rules for registering security created by UK companies and limited liability partnerships are set to be reformed this year...

The United Kingdom limited partnership remains the market standard structure for on-shore private equity and venture capital funds, as well as on-shore funds investing in many other sectors. This article looks at whether the 1907 Act is able to comprehensively address certain of the issues faced by modern investment vehicles...

The corporate veil exists to distinguish a company as a legal person separate from its shareholders...

This document invites comments on the options for improving company and business names regulations. It considers the need to maintain the statutory instruments which, primarily, set out rules regarding same as names and sensitive words and expressions...

The Government has proposed a number of notable amendments to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill which is currently before the House of Lords...

This updated paper accompanies the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, which was introduced in to the House of Lords on 18 October 2012 following its passage through the House of Commons. The Explanatory Notes give more detailed commentary on the clauses in the bill. This paper sets out why the Government is undertaking the measures contained in this bill, and explains what each measure aims to achieve...

This regular company secretarial corner provides a round-up of some recent developments in company secretarial law and practice...