9/23/2025 10:25:40 AM Legal Teams: The New Architects of Corporate Strategy? By Marc Proudfoot Recently, Anglo American’s restructuring and Pret A Manger’s IPO ambition signals a shift in the role of legal teams and corporate...
12/10/2024 11:30:14 AM UK-China Legal Exchange By Qing Miao We recently hosted the inaugural event of our latest initiative, the “UK-China Legal Exchange”, bringing together 30 key players from...
8/4/2023 11:58:42 AM "Material Adverse Change"? By Shattik Shaheen Introduction Finsbury Food Group plc v Axis Corporate Capital Ltd & Ors provides some guidance in an area where disputes rarely proceed...
1/28/2021 6:07:11 PM Directors' FAQs - managing through the storm By Rosie Graham In spring/summer 2020, a number of provisions came into force to enable companies and their directors to run their businesses in...
8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM Directors' FAQs - preparing for the recovery By Rosie Graham QUESTION: WHAT HELP IS AVAILABLE TO SUSTAIN MY BUSINESS? Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a package...
5/5/2020 12:00:00 AM Bouncing back to recovery - can debt for equity swaps help? By Rosie Graham Gillian White Writing in the Financial Times, Kate Burgess notes that whilst applying for the new bounceback loans is refreshingly simple compared to...
3/31/2020 11:40:13 AM COVID-19 – a material change? By Howard Kennedy Several Australian companies have been pulling out of, or postponing, takeover deals due to the devastating economic impact of the...
3/27/2020 12:00:00 AM Directors' duties amid the coronavirus crisis - what steps should directors be taking now? By Rosie Graham What are my duties as a director, and do these duties change in a time of economic crisis? Company directors are subject to a wide range...
3/27/2020 12:00:00 AM Coronavirus - when should directors consider delaying or cancelling dividends? By Rosie Graham The last few days have seen a wave of dividend suspensions, as well as cancellations of share buybacks, as companies urgently reassess...
3/25/2020 12:00:00 AM Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Companies can get an extra three months to submit accounts to Companies House By Rosie Graham Companies House has announced that from 25 March 2020, companies can apply for a three-month extension for filing their accounts. Those...
6/12/2019 12:00:00 AM UK develops 13 Tech "Unicorns" in the past year By Howard Kennedy Despite the headwinds (and the occasional bit of political uncertainty), the UK has created more technology companies worth at least $1bn...
5/7/2019 12:00:00 AM Star Wars and Companies House - letting light in on the dark side? By Rosie Graham Two Companies House-related items in the media caught my eye at the weekend. The first is a blog post, If Darth Vader owned a company by...