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Corporate governance: ICSA board evaluation: review of the UK top 200 companies 2010

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 21 2011

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) has published the results of its Review, for the 2010 reporting season, into how the largest UK listed companies have carried out the evaluation of the performance of the board, the audit, nomination and remuneration committees and individual board directors in response to Principle B.6 of the UK Corporate Governance Code (Principle A.6 of the Combined Code on Corporate Governance

Corporate governance: auditors: disclosure by company of non-audit services

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 18 2011

The Government has published (7 April 2011) a draft of the Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Liability Limitation Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (the draft Regulations) which amend the Companies (Disclosure of Auditor Remuneration and Limited Liability Agreements) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008489) (the 2008 Regulations

Corporate governance: directors: up-dated ICSA guidance on ‘joining the right board: due diligence for prospective directors’

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 18 2011

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) has now published (12 May 2011) an updated version of its Guidance Note: 'Joining the right board: due diligence for prospective directors'

Corporate governance: UK corporate governance code: FRC consults on changes to the code to reflect recommendations of report on ‘women on boards’

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 18 2011

The FRC has launched a consultation on whether the UK Corporate Governance Code (the Code) should be revised to require listed companies to publish their policy on gender diversity in the boardroom and report against it annually as recommended in Lord Davies' report, ' Women on Boards', published in February this year

Companies house: registration of charges: new regulations expected in the summer

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 18 2011

In March 2010, the Government published a consultation paper on the Companies House regime governing the registration of charges created by companies and limited liability partnerships

Corporate governance: financial reporting: the FRC’s Sharman inquiry calls for evidence on going concern and liquidity risk reporting

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 18 2011

As previously reported 1, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched an inquiry, headed by Lord Sharman, to review its Guidance for Directors of UK Companies on going concern statements and liquidity risk which was last up-dated in 2009

FSA’ fines Sir Ken Morrison for failure to disclose reduced shareholdings in Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 4 2011

The Financial Services Authority (‘FSA’) has published a Final Notice (dated 16 August 2011) imposing a penalty of £210,000 on Sir Ken Morrison, the former chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc (‘the Company’), for breach of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (‘DTR’) resulting from a failure to disclose his reduced shareholding and voting rights in the Company

Companies House: registration of charges: overseas companies

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 4 2011

The Overseas Companies (Execution of Documents and Registration of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (SI 20112194) (‘the Regulations’), which came into force on 1 October 2011, remove the requirement for an overseas company established in the UK to register at Companies House any charge it creates over its UK assets on or after 1 October 2011

Companies House: listed companies: annual returns: changes effective from 1 October 2011

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 4 2011

With effect from 1 October 2011, when The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Returns) Regulations 2011 (SI 20111487) (‘the Regulations’) came into force, listed companies covered by the disclosure requirements of Chapter 5 of the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR5) throughout the return period will no longer need to include in their annual returns detailed information relating to major shareholders, or transactions in shares, that have already been disclosed to the market under the requirements of DTR5

Companies House: registration of charges: companies and limited liability partnerships

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 4 2011

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (‘BIS’) has published (10 August 2011) the Government’s latest proposals for revising the existing regime, contained in the Companies Act 2006, relating to the registration of security created by companies and limited liability partnerships