Business Law and Corporate Law

Companies operating employee share plans and management incentive arrangements must prepare and submit annual returns to HMRC by 6 July 2026, with penalties starting at £100 for late filing.

In this Winter Update we reflect on key events affecting Incentives and Remuneration and look at what 2026 has in store.

Our Senior Consultant Spencer Summerfield has been the Contributing Editor of the Chambers and Partners 2025 Global Practice Guide on Shareholders' Rights & Shareholder Activism.

Technology and economic uncertainty are reshaping work, but access to opportunity remains uneven. Through mentoring programs spanning from professionals over 50 to young people and trauma survivors...

The Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI) has introduced revised Arbitration Rules effective June 1, 2026, designed to modernize dispute resolution through enhanced digital capabilities, clearer multiparty procedures, and integrated mediation processes.

Shepherd and Wedderburn has been recognized as Legal Firm of the Year at the British Business Awards 2026, an accolade celebrating outstanding performance in business success, innovation, workplace culture, customer impact and societal contribution.

A closer look at the International Non Profit Accounting Standard (INPAS), its practical impact, and key consideration for local non profits.

In addition to reversing the expanded right to work checking obligation for sponsors, changes to the sponsor guidance emphasise that sponsors must be substantively trading or operating in the UK ...

The Home Office has issued statutory guidance on the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, commonly known as 'Martyn's Law,' which requires those responsible for premises and events to consider and prepare for terrorist attack risks.

Liechtenstein has long occupied a distinctive position in European and international private wealth structuring, because its trust, unlike many civil law instruments that merely approximate fiduciary ownership or contractual asset administration, is embedded in the Persons and Companies Act (PGR) as a flexible, statutory, internationally recognisable legal form which, while historically inspired by the Anglo-Saxon trust tradition, has developed into a characteristically Liechtenstein solution for asset protection, succession planning, family governance, philanthropy and cross-border wealth continuity.

Internationally mobile founders relocating to Malta while holding global assets face complex cross-border implications affecting tax residency, holding structures, trusts, family office governance, and succession planning across multiple jurisdictions. Malta's EU membership, English-speaking legal framework, remittance basis taxation, and growing innovation economy position it as a strategic European base for entrepreneurial families seeking stability...

The office of "protector" is a common feature of many discretionary trusts. A protector is a person on whom the trust instrument confers specified powers relating to the governance...