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Simpler rules for buying back shares from employees and other small shareholders

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2013

As of 30 April 2013, it has become slightly easier for private companies to buy back their own shares, including shares held by employees. At first

Directors' remuneration in listed companies - an update

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 15 2013

As reported in our previous Law-Now, the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) last year introduced draft legislation requiring listed

Model code - proper systems and processes must be maintained

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 26 2013

The Model Code requires directors and other persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) in listed companies to obtain clearance before

Helping private companies to buy shares from employees

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 5 2012

The Nuttall Review emphasised the benefits of long-term employee share ownership, whether through employee trusts or by employees directly, and asked the Government to look at ways of facilitating this

Questions about the role of a remuneration committee in implementing a cash bonus scheme

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 22 2012

A recent case has revealed that some £8 million of bonuses came to be claimed by two executive directors of a private company, without the remuneration committee or the underlying shareholders apparently appreciating that entitlements had arisen on anything like that scale

Implementing employee owner status

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 19 2012

BIS has now published the promised consultation paper on the proposal for employees to give up certain statutory employment rights in exchange for shares

Remuneration reporting and sale incentives developments

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 10 2012

The FSA has recently produced two papers relevant to those working on financial services remuneration

Listed company director remuneration - draft legislation published

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 9 2012

Following all the debate over the last year, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has now produced all the draft legislation necessary to implement its final proposals for greater disclosure of, and shareholder control over, director pay in listed companies

Shorter prospectuses for pre-emptive offers, SMEs and small caps from 1 July 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • June 29 2012

From 1 July 2012, prospectuses published in connection with pre-emptive offers of shares by Main Market or AIM companies, and prospectuses published by SMEs and small cap Main Market companies, will be shorter and cheaper to produce as less information will be needed

Revised proposals give shareholders reduced control of executive director pay

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 21 2012

Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has announced revised proposals which give shareholders reduced voting rights on executive director pay in listed companies compared with the proposals published in a consultation paper in March