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News & Insights
Companies House sets out its plans on Transparency Reforms
Last month, Companies House published its Business Plan for the period April 2024 to March 2025. This includes its plans to implement ref...
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Could a rise in CGT further fuel the rise of EOTs?
In her statement last month, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, restated Labour’s commitment that Labour would not raise the rates of VAT, in...
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AI: Privacy at the core of Apple’s challenge
Apple Intelligence is coming. And the technology giant says that their AI developments will create “intelligence that understands y...
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Duomatic isn’t Automatic – Taking Care with Informal Sharehol...
Whilst most day-to-day decisions required to operate a company will be made by directors and members of senior management, some actions d...
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Partnership Agreements (the case of Procter v Procter)
The majority of businesses in the UK are operated by sole traders (more than 3,000,000 at the last count). Of the remainder, one in six a...
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Shareholder Agreements and Unfair Prejudice: Untangling Complex Rel...
Dealing with the intersection of professional relationships, personal connections and business interests is not straightforward for board...
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The Importance of the Register of Members
When acting for clients on fundraisings or M&A transactions, we regularly come across companies with absent or poorly maintained regi...
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Company Share Buybacks – An Overview
There are many reasons why a shareholder may choose, or be required, to sell their shares in a company prior to an exit by all shareholde...
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Intra Group Re-Organisations – The Why, What and How
Many businesses operate though group structures. This may be the result of carefully thought through strategies or it may arise from lega...
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What is a De Facto Director? Why does it matter?
A company is unlikely to know that it has a de facto director until there is a problem, often involving company litigation or proceedings...
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Keeping it in the Family – Corporate Structures and Family Businesses
Family businesses come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from SMEs employing multiple generations to global giants like SC Johnson, still...
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ChatGPT: The Impact and Opportunities for M&A Lawyers
The impact of artificial intelligence on the legal sector has been the subject of debate for almost two decades, particularly in relation...
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New Identity Verification Rules for Directors and Owners of UK Comp...
A look at the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill and how it will affect UK businesses. Economic crime is on the rise in the U...
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Corporate Compliance: Issues that Should Register with all Companies
(If you are interested in the issues raised below, please note that the Corporate Team at Morr & Co provide company secretarial admin...
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New national security controls on acquisitions and investments
The new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) received royal assent on 29 April 2021 and, once fully in force, will establi...
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Off-payroll working rules
As indicated in the article on IR35 in this month’s Corporate Insights bulletin, from 6 April 2021, the regime introduced by the Finance ...