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Mineral reservations in Scottish property titles can significantly impact development projects, requiring careful consideration of ownership rights, legal remedies, and strategic decisions between negotiating with minerals owners or securing title indemnity insurance. Understanding these complexities early in the due diligence process is essential to avoid costly delays and ensure project viability.

Employees are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for guidance on managing their equity compensation, but research shows these systems provide incorrect answers to financial questions up to 88% of the time. As AI becomes an invisible interpretation layer between employer communications and employee decisions, companies must rethink how they design share plan materials to ensure they degrade safely when context is incomplete or misunderstood.

The UK is home to a world-renowned fintech sector – one that contributes £11 billion to the nation's economy, and supports more than 76,000 jobs.

From April 2027, unused pensions will be subject to inheritance tax, but strategic charitable giving from pension assets could significantly reduce tax bills for estates and beneficiaries. This article explores how pension-to-charity donations work, the potential income tax savings, and practical considerations including the role of pension trustees and options for establishing charitable vehicles.

In this article, we examine the Law Commission's consultation on the implementation of electronic Wills ("the Consultation") which has just closed for submissions.

The Pension Schemes Act 2021 (PSA21) requires defined benefit (DB) pension schemes to have a long-term funding and investment strategy recorded in a statement of strategy.

When a public company faces a takeover, executive remuneration arrangements designed over three-year cycles suddenly collide with deal timetables measured in months. This analysis examines how boards should distinguish between preserving existing value, repairing transaction-caused losses, rewarding deal-specific contributions, and creating future incentives—and why a single payment figure rarely tells the complete story.

Agentic AI is poised to revolutionise employee share trading by autonomously executing transactions based on broad financial mandates. But when an algorithm exercises investment judgement rather than simply following fixed instructions, UK market abuse rules, dealing codes and financial services regulations create complex new compliance challenges that companies must address before automation becomes standard practice.

Hot on the heels of the Connect Update published by Ofgem in June 2026 (please find a link to our article on this here), Ofgem published on 29 July 2026 a Curate Update (the Curate Update), together with draft amendments to: the Connection Use of System Code (the CUSC), the electricity distribution licence standard licence conditions and the Independent System Operator and Planner Licence (the ISOP Licence).

In this guide, we provide a summary of the key issues for employers to consider when recruiting overseas nationals under the Points-Based System.

For eligible companies, EMI options and growth shares each offer distinct advantages in employee equity incentives. But what happens when you combine them? This analysis explores how EMI can wrap contingent growth-share interests, the valuation principles that must be respected, and why the hurdle, exercise price and performance conditions need to be designed together to avoid accidentally over-gearing management's participation.

On 27 December 2023, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities published their consultation on the transparency of land ownership involving trusts.

Residence and domicile are both crucially important concepts in UK law. This article summarises what each term means and the impact they have for individual

For overseas fund managers distributing to UK retail investors, the new Consumer Composite Investments regime represents a fundamental shift in disclosure requirements. Understanding manufacturer responsibilities, distributor arrangements, and the UK's financial promotions framework will be critical to meeting the June 2027 implementation deadline.

This guide provides a general overview of how public takeovers are conducted and regulated in the UK. It is essential reading for anyone who is contemplating a public takeover in the UK.

The UK Government is mandating Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blending as a requirement for all suppliers of Aviation fuel – starting at 2% in 2025 and rising to 22% by 2040 – and backing industry...

Shepherd and Wedderburn reported a 7% revenue increase to £71.4 million and a 12% profit rise to £30.2 million for the year ending April 2024. The firm highlighted growth in clean energy, real estate, and private wealth sectors, alongside strategic hires and notable deals.

Since the Implementation of the Code in 28 December 2017, two further pieces of primary legislation have been introduced to amend the provisions of the Code...