UK Corporate Briefing Spring 2015

Issue 1 - Spring 2015

UK Corporate Briefing Spring 2015

Issue 1 - Spring 2015

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Spring 2015

Welcome to the first edition of Dentons' UK Corporate Briefing, a quarterly summary of the most significant recent and forthcoming developments in company law and corporate finance regulation in the UK.

Topics

In this first edition of Dentons' UK Corporate Briefing, our lawyers examine:

Legislation updates

Case law updates

Regulatory updates

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Changes to increase transparency and accountability, remove red tape and prevent abuse

April 20, 2015

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. It covers a diverse range of subjects, including changes to companies legislation. These are designed to increase corporate transparency and accountability, remove red tape around company administration and prevent abuse.

Clarification of share buyback rules

April 20, 2015

Regulations introduced in 2013 relaxed certain Companies Act 2006 rules that would otherwise apply when a company undertakes a buyback of its shares. New regulations, which came into force on 6 April 2015, make further changes to clarify some provisions introduced by the 2013 regulations.

An end to cancellation schemes in takeovers

April 20, 2015

Regulations preventing the use of cancellation schemes of arrangement in takeovers came into force on 4 March 2015. This is significant as, in recent years, over half of UK takeovers have been by cancellation scheme.

Simpler rules for company and business names

April 20, 2015

New regulations, which came into force on 31 January 2015, have simplified the rules regulating the words that companies may use in their registered and trading names.

Dealing with requests to inspect a company's register of members

April 20, 2015

The High Court has considered two issues regarding a request to inspect a company's register of members. First, whether a request is valid if it does not contain all the information required by the Companies Act 2006 and, secondly, the circumstances in which a request by a non-member satisfies the proper purpose test to which the Act refers.