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UK Corporate Briefing - September 2025

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Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue we discuss...more

Alston & Bird

Exit Means Exit: Lessons in Directors’ Duties, Unfair Prejudice, and Good-Faith Obligations Under English Law

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Our Financial Services Litigation Group examines an English Court of Appeal decision that highlights the need for company directors to fully understand and abide by the exit provisions in their shareholders’ agreements under...more

Goodwin

“‘They Will Thank Me in the Long Run’”: Court of Appeal Considers Good Faith Obligations and Fiduciary Duties of Directors in...

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The English Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Saxon Woods Investments Limited v. Francesco Costa ([2025] EWCA Civ 708) provides clarification on the application of directors’ fiduciary duties and the interpretation of good...more

Morgan Lewis

UK Takeover Panel Makes Extensive Compensation and ‘Cold Shoulder’ Orders for UK Takeover Code Breaches

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The UK Takeover Panel (Panel) has made its first-ever compensation order under the statutory powers granted to it under the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). It has also issued “cold shoulder” orders against 10 individuals, the...more

Hogan Lovells

Directors' conflicts of interests under the Companies Act 2006

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A Hogan Lovells client note discussing the conflicts of interests duties imposed on directors by the Companies Act 2006. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Directors' duties under the Companies Act 2006 - an introduction

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A client note providing an introduction to the main duties which directors of UK companies owe to their company under the Companies Act 2006. ...more

K&L Gates LLP

Ban on Corporate Directors

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From October 2016 no person, other than a natural person, will be able to be appointed as a director of a company formed and registered under Companies Act 2006 (the Act) or Companies Act 1985[2], unless that company is the...more

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