Corporate Insights
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What Happens When a Shareholder in an Owner-Managed Business Dies?
Protecting shares in a private company involves planning. Many business owners are so caught up in protecting their company from day-to-d...
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Moving forward with post Brexit changes to employment law
May 2023 saw proposals for major changes to employment law, designed to ‘boost the economy’ through ‘smarter regulation’. In this article...
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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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Property Developers and the SPV Company
An SPV (special purpose vehicle) company is a company set up for a specific purpose. Experienced property developers will often set up a ...
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Changing property requirements for commercial tenants: downsizing o...
The ongoing pandemic has really put remote working to the test and has had a significant impact on how we live and work. For some, remote...
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Deferred Consideration And Earn Outs
For many reasons, business sales rarely proceed with 100% of the purchase price being paid in cash on completion. Often sellers are eager...
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Work and the Coronavirus Vaccine
Employers are facing a new set of issues in the workplace that are currently untested in the Courts of England and Wales born out of the ...
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LLP Designated Members – Duties & Responsibilities
The duties incumbent on directors of companies are long established in common law and equity, and have been recently codified in the Comp...
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Business Lasting Powers of Attorney
Succession planning for your business is as important as its day-to-day management and for most types of business, one very important asp...
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Reasonable Endeavours
There’s a reason for the sunshine in the sky, And there’s a reason why we need to talk about reasonable endeavours (With apologies to the...
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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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Service Charge – Is the Landlord’s Decision Final?
The majority of landlords provide services to their tenants and recover the costs of doing that from those tenants by way of service char...
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Is it ‘working time’ or not?
Working time for the purpose of the Working Time Regulations means ‘any period during which [the worker] is working, at [the] employer’s ...
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The legacy of COVID-19 on flexible working
The corona-virus pandemic has forced millions to leave the office and work from home, almost overnight. Makeshift desks have replaced the...
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The Overlooked Duo: Asbestos Survey Reports and Fire Risk Assessments
The intermittent COVID-19 lockdowns and high infection rates has drastically affected the commercial property market. Now, more than ever...