United Kingdom: M&A/Private Equity

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UK Pensions: What’s New This Week? May 5, 2026
The UK pensions landscape is undergoing significant transformation with the Pension Schemes Act 2026 receiving Royal Assent, introducing sweeping changes from DB surplus payments to DC consolidation frameworks. New legislation also targets salary sacrifice arrangements exceeding £2,000 annually, while TPR unveils expectations for multi-employer CDC schemes and dashboards guidance addresses operational challenges.
United Kingdom Employment
AO
A&O Shearman
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The Role Of The Protector
The Privy Council has delivered a landmark judgment clarifying the role of fiduciary protectors in trust structures, determining that protectors with consent powers have broad discretionary authority rather than a narrow oversight function. This decision has profound implications for trust administration, potentially requiring protectors to undertake the same rigorous decision-making process as trustees themselves, raising questions about cost, practicality, and the risk of deadlock in trust governance.
United Kingdom Litigation
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Macfarlanes LLP
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EU Sustainability Reporting: Less Is More?
The European Commission has published draft revised sustainability reporting standards following the Omnibus Directive, dramatically reducing mandatory data points by over 60% while preserving the core structure of CSRD requirements. Companies must navigate significant changes to materiality assessments, value chain reporting obligations, and new voluntary standards that will reshape how businesses approach sustainability disclosure from 2027 onwards.
United Kingdom Commercial
TS
Travers Smith LLP
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Corporate Law Update: 18 April - 1 May
The Financial Conduct Authority is consulting on significant changes to its rules governing analyst research during UK equity IPOs, potentially allowing connected research to be published much earlier in the process. Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal has clarified important principles around expert determinations, ruling that an expert's interpretation of an ambiguous mathematical formula was binding despite alternative readings being possible.
United Kingdom Commercial
M
Macfarlanes LLP
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