On 17 September 2015, the London Stock Exchange announced that a nominated adviser has been privately censured and fined £75,000 for breaches of rules 19 and 23 of the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers.

In a recent case the High Court had to deal with how the diminution in value of shares should be assessed on the restoration of the shares to the bankrupt's estate.

On 5 September 2016, HMRC announced that it was giving itself another year to address some of the difficult issues around VAT on fees charged to pension funds.

On 9 December 2015, the European Commission published the communication 'Towards a modern, more European copyright framework', providing further guidance for the future of copyright.

At the beginning of February, the European Commission published a memo regarding its Google 'vertical search' investigation.

There can be more to minority shareholdings than initially meets the eye, particularly those which involve a 'creeping influence'.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing to add new rules to the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules sourcebook (DTR), in order to comply with regulatory technical standards...

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (the "Act") requires UK companies and LLPs and certain other entities to keep registers of people with significant control ("PSCs") over them...

Last week, we reported that shared parental leave proposals had hit the rocks after disagreement between the Coalition partners about the detail of proposals.

Gordon Ramsay has been told he must honour a personal guarantee that was used to secure a pub in Regent's Park.

The PPRS is a voluntary scheme agreed between the Department of Health and the ABPI which regulates Government spending on branded prescription medicines.

The UK is proposing new legislation to mitigate the impact on EU27 regulated firms arising from a "no deal" scenario in March 2019.

UCITS V is essentially a reaction to Madoff but it addresses what was really a latent problem waiting to come to the fore.

"[t]he most competitive corporate tax system in the G20" were the words with which HM Revenue and Customs and HM Treasury launched last October's consultation on the tax deductibility of corporate interest expense.

La loi a été promulguée le 6 août dernier et publié au Journal Officiel le même jour.

A franchising agreement is at risk of infringing EU competition law (Article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) if it has the object or effect of restricting competition and is capable of affecting trade within the EEA.

At the start of last year we wrote here about the anti-trust complaint brought to the European Commission by three Italian consumer bodies against McDonald's.

The online shopping world is changing rapidly and Amazon, in particular, seems to be going all out to lure customers to its online video entertainment nest.

The UK Government announced yesterday that the Ministry of Justice will consult on plans to extend the scope of the criminal offence of a corporate 'failing to prevent' beyond bribery and tax evasion to other economic crimes.

The Premier League’s (PL) latest handbook contains a very important cost control provision explained below.