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Legislation update

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 2 2007

HMRC announced the following proposed regulations on its website on 12 December 2006

Changing hats: pension schemes and conflicts of interest

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 7 2007

Traditionally, the directors and senior management of companies have played some part in the running of the company’s pension scheme, including acting either as individual trustees or as directors of a corporate trustee of that scheme

Companies Act 2006 - execution changes

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2008

With effect from 6 April 2008 a new simpler method of executing deeds is available for both private and public companies incorporated in England and Wales or Northern Ireland

Restructuring incentive schemes

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2009

In these very challenging times, companies are under considerable pressure to ensure that remuneration strategies incentivise good, risk-balanced management which aligns investors’ interests with those of executives and employees

Governance and ethics - meeting the standards in a climate of increasing risk

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2009

Increasingly regulators, shareholders, customers and employees are demanding higher standards of corporate integrity from business

FSA sends letter to trade associations to clarify the role of activist shareholders

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 26 2009

On 19 August 2009 the FSA wrote to a number of trade associations (including the Association of British Insurers) to set out how activist shareholders should engage with the boards of investee companies in order to promote good governance

Directors’ duties

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 6 2009

The following is a broad overview of the duties and liabilities of directors when their company is in financial difficulties

Treating Customers Fairly Initiative: progress report

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 14 2007

The FSA has published its latest progress report on the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) initiative

BERR - implementation of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 11 2008

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), now superseded by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), published in May 2007, a consultation seeking views on draft Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, which will implement the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, (Directive 200529EC

Solvent liquidations time for a corporate simplication?

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 2 2007

The lengthening of the restoration period for dormant companies may make a solvent liquidation an attractive option for some companies