Business Law and Corporate Law

Recent tragic events in motorsport, with the deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli in IndyCar and MotoGP respectively, have brought into focus the role event organisers and venue owners play in ensuring the safety of those participating in sporting events and where liability rests when accidents do occur.

Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd has lost an appeal against conviction for corporate manslaughter. The BBC reports that the Court also upheld the company’s £385,000 fine at the Court of Appeal in London last week.

As the SRA continues with its timetable to implement outcomes-focused regulation (OFR), it has recently published its new Handbook, containing a principles based Code of Conduct.

With appetite for private equity, private debt, venture capital and real assets showing no signs of slowing, fund managers face a critical early decision: where to domicile.

Significant changes were introduced to the UK's tax rules for non-domiciled individuals from 6 April 2025. The remittance basis for non-UK domiciled individuals has been replaced with a residency-based system.

Within the venture capital investment universe, artificial intelligence (AI) and medical technology (MedTech) stand out as transformative asset classes.

Piers Larbey, Partner, and Izabella Brooks, Associate, in our Corporate & Commercial department, explore the evolving landscape of hybrid and virtual shareholder meetings in the digital age.

Market mechanisms tend to work effectively – this is especially true for capital-intensive industries such as the fiber optic market. After years of low interest rates, the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis...

On 1 September 2025, the new UK corporate offence of "failure to prevent fraud" will come into force, as introduced under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the "Act").

Market mechanisms tend to work effectively – this is especially true for capital-intensive industries such as the fiber optic market. After years of low interest rates, the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis...

The Takeover Panel has published a new Practice Statement on unlisted share alternatives, commonly referred to as "stub equity" offers. This update summarises the key points from the statement for bidders and their advisers.

On 3 July 2025, the UK's Takeover Panel (the Panel) published Practice Statement 36 (PS36) on unlisted share alternatives (also referred to as stub equity or partial share alternatives).