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The Law Commission publishes a consultation paper asking consultees for their views on potential reforms to two areas of charity law:

The word "misrepresentation" sends a chill through even the most experienced and ethical franchisor.

The major shareholding notification regime under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTRs) is being amended with effect from 26 November 2015.

The Court of Appeal has considered when the court should prevent access to a company's register of members on the grounds that the request is for an improper purpose.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) £539,800 for inadequate systems and controls to monitor dealing in its own shares by its senior executives.

The Code Committee of the Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on 15 February 2016 containing some proposed changes to the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers...

On 13 April 2017, the Takeover Panel took the unprecedented step of issuing legal proceedings against Mr David King.

In 2014, the design firm WATG became the first US company to create employee ownership through a perpetual trust, an innovative model in the United States that is becoming common in the United Kingdom.

We asked our Technology & Data team a series of questions about the state of play of the Outsourcing market. Here is what we found…

In our first article in this series on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace, we looked at some of the issues to address in considering drafting new or amended policies. In this article, we look more broadly...

A third party security is security given by an individual or entity which secures the liability of a third party.

The Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed that amendments to the Listing Rules will come into force on 16 May 2014.

Since the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a key concern for regulators across the globe has been addressing the so-called "too big to fail" issue.

You would have had to be living in a very remote, dark cave to have missed the spectre of MiFID II (to give it its full name: the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ("MiFID II")) over the past 12 months.

As reported previously in Market reCap, the UK Listing Authority ("UKLA") launched its online guidance repository, 'Knowledge Base', to address the problem of the diversity of sources of guidance on the Listing Rules, Prospectus Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules. Knowledge Base can now be found here at the Financial Conduct Authority's ("FCA") website.

The EU Commission's long-awaited proposals for a new Payment Services Directive contain much for existing providers of payment services to consider.

The English High Court has held for the first time that a securitisation issuer was able to bring a claim against a valuer who had been negligent.