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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
This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the FCA's publication of Primary Market Bulletin 65 covering, among other matters,...
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published an updated version of its ‘Our Approach to Regulation’ framework, which sets out how it intends to...
Companies House has updated its guidance on setting up and running a limited liability partnership (LLP) to clarify the changes that must be reported....
Companies House has announced that, from 1 December 2026, objections to a limited company being struck off the register must be submitted through its...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Primary Market Bulletin 65, covering regulatory announcements, delayed disclosure of inside...
Latest Corporate Practice Notes
On 22 September 2022, the government published The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (‘the Bill’). On 26 October 2023, the Bill received...
This Resource Note highlights relevant commentary, analysis and resources to assist with the interpretation of, and provide practical guidance on the...
On 22 September 2022, the government published The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (‘the Bill’). On 26 October 2023, the Bill received...
Updated in June 2026IntroductionIreland is consistently ranked as one of the most attractive locations globally in which to establish international...
This Practice Note provides further guidance on key definitions used in the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, Assimilated Regulation...
Latest Corporate Precedents
Insert new definition in clause 1.1 of Precedent: Partnership agreementGarden Leave•means any period during which the Management Committee exercises...
Company number: [insert][insert company name] LimitedMinutes of a meeting of the board of directors (Meeting) of [insert full name of company]...
Add new clause 14 to Precedent: Limited partnership agreement or new clause 16 to Precedent: Limited partnership agreement—private fund limited...
[On letterhead of the Investor]Strictly private and confidential[insert Company name][insert Company address]Date: [insert date]SUBJECT TO...
[On letterhead of the Investor]Strictly private and confidential[insert company name][insert company address][insert Founder names][insert contact...
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
Indemnity basis of assessment
This involves the costs being determined with any doubt as to whether the costs have been reasonably incurred or were reasonable in amount being resolved in favour of the receiving party.
Opening Position Disclosure
An announcement under Rule 8 containing details of interests or short positions in, or rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of a party to the offer held at the start of the offer period. An Opening Position Disclosure is required to be made after the commencement of the offer period and, if later, after the announcement that first identifies an offeror and must be made by the offeree, by an offeror (after its identity is first publicly disclosed) and by any person that is interested in 1% or more of any class of relevant securities of any party to the offer. Opening Position Disclosures must be made by 12 noon on the day falling 10 business days after the commencement of the offer period or the announcement which first identifies the offeror.
Takeover Panel
The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, an independent body established in 1968, whose main functions are to issue and administer the Code and to supervise and regulate takeovers and other matters to which the Code applies in accordance with the rules set out in the Code. Its statutory functions are set out in and under CA 2006, ss 942–965 (Chapter 1 of Part 28).
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