Welcome to the latest edition of Dentons' UK Corporate Briefing, a quarterly summary of the most significant recent and forthcoming developments in company law and corporate finance regulation in the UK.
In this edition, our lawyers examine:
Legislation update
- New corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
- Proposed changes to corporate governance in the UK
Case law update
- Consenting to the exercise of a share option: an unqualified discretion is not an absolute discretion
- Factors to take into account when dealing with a request to inspect a company's register of members
- Informal shareholder resolutions: the Duomatic principle revisited
Regulatory update
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