On 15 July 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final rules for the new UK public offers and admissions to trading regime which will take effect on 19 January 2026, replacing the current EU-derived...more
PS36 provides guidance on how the Panel usually applies Takeover Code provisions relating to an unlisted share alternative to a cash offer (stub equity), emphasising that the Panel should be consulted at an early stage...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released its final rules regarding the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (known as PISCES), the new platform designed to host intermittent secondary trading...more
On 17 December 2024, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published its latest consultation paper on the ‘Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System’ (“PISCES”) (the “Paper”) (which is available...more
New Listing Rules come into force on 29 July 2024, implementing long-awaited reforms to the UK’s Listing Regime. The changes, which some have billed ‘radical’, form a critical component of the Government’s wider workstream to...more
The FCA has recently completed a review of the way in which UK issuers disclose changes to their total voting rights to the market and the resulting effect on major shareholding notifications. ...more
Recent changes introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) -
On 21 December 2020, as we broke for Christmas, the FCA published new Listing Rule 9.8.6R(8) (LR) and guidance requiring commercial companies with a UK...more
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For obvious reasons, the finer points of the functioning and regulation of the UK's capital markets and corporate governance are not necessarily at the forefront of the minds of legislators and policy makers while addressing...more
A monthly newsletter covering topics of interest in the field of UK corporate law including mergers and acquisitions, listed companies, equity capital markets, corporate governance and general company law.
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