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U.K. government announces new business loan programs

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2009

Today, the U.K. government announced “a package of measures designed to address the cash flow, credit and investment needs of small and medium businesses.”

Directors' duties and shareholder circulars and why (a little) legalese may be no bad thing

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 5 2009

By way of legal background, the Companies Act 2006 introduced into English law a "code of conduct" for directors (source: the Government's explanatory notes to the Act

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

FSA publishes PSD forms

  • Dentons
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 8 2009

FSA has published a suite of forms applicants can now use if they need to become an authorised payment institution, register as a small payment institution or register an agent

Doing business with friends - formal agreements advisable

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 25 2009

A recent case shows the risks of entering into business transactions with friends without having a formal agreement in place

First UK company charged with corporate manslaughter

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 1 2009

The UK Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge of corporate manslaughter, the first of its kind, under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

Companies Act 2006: business as usual?

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 2 2007

The Companies Act 2006 marks the first comprehensive reform of UK company law for decades

Changes to the FSA approved persons regime - implications for UK branches of EEA-incorporated firms

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 1 2007

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) published Policy Statement 073, ‘Reforming the Approved Persons Regime’, on 26 January 2007

You can’t run rings round good lawyers but a virtuous circle never goes amiss!

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 11 2007

It would be fair to say that the concept of managing a professional partnership was a fairly alien concept until the 1980s when there was a dramatic growth in the size and scale of legal and other firms

In, out, shake it all about - where are we on choice of law in Rome 1?

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2009

Choice of law determines which body of law should apply to a case with an international dimension