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STOP PRESS: A major, wide-ranging overhaul of the UK listing framework took effect on 29 July 2024, abolishing the premium and standard listing segments and introducing a unified category for equity shares of commercial companies. That commercial companies category is strongly disclosure-led and sits alongside other listing categories, including the shell companies, secondary listing and closed ended investment fund categories. A new UK Listing Rules sourcebook commenced to deliver these reforms, and the previous Listing Rules sourcebook was withdrawn at the same time. For more detail, see Practice Note: Reform of the UK listing regime—fundamentals for guidance. This Checklist represents the listing regime as it existed before 29 July 2024. A limited company may acquire its own shares if certain conditions set out in the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) are satisfied under that statute. This is commonly referred to as a share buyback or a purchase of own shares. In addition to the provisions of the CA 2006, further rules and guidelines are relevant to a listed company...

This checklist helps practitioners grasp and consistently apply the FCA’s Consumer Duty requirements for evidencing fair value effectively. It should be considered alongside other relevant practical Consumer Duty materials and references: for information on the main elements of the Consumer Duty with general application, see Practice Note: The FCA Consumer Duty—essentials; also for a suite of sectoral guidance and checklists see: Consumer protection and FCA Consumer Duty—overview for key developments relating to the FCA’s Consumer Duty, see: The FCA Consumer Duty—timeline Background Under the Consumer Duty, four outcomes cover the central and key aspects of the firm–customer relationship. The second outcome is the Price and Value Outcome, which is concerned with an overarching obligation that products must deliver ‘fair value’ to customers. Under PRIN 2A.4: value is the relationship between the amount paid by a retail customer for the product and the benefits they can reasonably expect to receive from the product; and a product provides fair value...

A limited company can repurchase its own shares where the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) are met. This is termed a share buyback, or a purchase of own shares. Beyond the CA 2006, additional rules and guidance are relevant to a listed company or an AIM company. A private limited company may only carry out an off‑market buyback; accordingly, this checklist does not cover on‑market buybacks. For an overview of share buybacks, including how off‑market and on‑market buybacks differ, see Practice Note: Share buybacks—the legal framework. Preliminary issues Before proceeding with a buyback, a private limited company should work through several preliminary points and may need to complete certain preparatory steps. For more detail, see Practice Notes: Private company share buybacks—initial considerations and Tax issues on share buybacks for corporate lawyers. Articles of association and shareholders' agreements: Check that the company’s articles provide the necessary power to undertake the proposed buyback...

In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and grid connections Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and system flexibility Air emissions, efficiency and climate change International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Energy resources on Lexis+® Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing DESNZ has opened a consultation to strengthen Energy Ombudsman (EO) powers. It will concentrate on complaints from domestic energy suppliers, small enterprise complaints against non-domestic suppliers, and heat network complaints. Electricity and gas networks and third-party intermediaries will instead be consulted on separately. The plans include shortening the escalation period for complaints from eight to four weeks, allowing automatic compensation where EO decisions are not put into effect promptly, and granting the EO a statutory designation. DESNZ has also stated that Ofgem will regulate third‑party intermediaries, including energy brokers and price comparison sites, which have previously operated...

In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Networks and network connections Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Oil and gas Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing DESNZ publishes Secretary of State’s designation of energy codes and central systems DESNZ has released a designation notice from Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, setting his decision to designate specified energy codes and central systems as qualifying documents and central systems for the purposes of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2023. This designation enables Ofgem to use its transitional powers to deliver reform of energy code governance. See: LNB News 29/01/2025 44...

In this issue: Key developments and materials Electricity and gas market regulation, licensing and taxation Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Hydrogen, CCUS and emerging technologies Nuclear energy Planning issues in energy projects Air emissions, efficiency, and climate change New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Energy resources on Lexis+® Daily and weekly news alerts Key developments and materials DESNZ announces accelerated measures to boost UK energy security DESNZ has unveiled a suite of actions to reinforce and speed up the UK’s energy security in light of events in the Middle East. For the first time, ‘plug-in solar’ will be permitted in the UK. The department plans to advance the next annual renewables auction to July 2026 and has confirmed that the government will adopt the Fingleton Review’s recommendations to hasten delivery of nuclear power stations. It has also moved to safeguard consumers, working...

The most common reasons for entering into derivatives are for the purposes of: Speculation — when a party seeks exposure to a given variable, for example taking a view on a commodity’s future price on the assumption it will rise or fall over a chosen period Hedging — aiming to offset exposure to the risk of an unfavourable shift in a variable, or to stabilise expected outcomes over time Arbitrage — seeking to take advantage of price discrepancies (between markets, or within the same market over time) to earn profit or cut costs, or where one participant can reach a price or market unavailable to another, including where prices differ over time Exposure to asset classes — obtaining access to a target market (eg commodities, shares, property) without incurring the expense, complexity and formalities associated with those markets, avoiding the same costs and complications Derivatives are commonly used alongside lending arrangements for hedging purposes in practice. In this context, the primary...

The creation of the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) in 2013 The establishment of the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) in 2013 coincided with an overhaul of a component of the criminal cartel offence that prosecutors had to prove to convict directors and officers. When the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA 2013) commenced on 1 April 2014, the dishonesty element of the cartel offence was scrapped, marking a radical change to what prosecutors had previously been required to establish. Under the revised regime, an individual commits the offence by agreeing, with one or more persons, that two or more undertakings will take part in specified prohibited cartel arrangements (price-fixing, market-sharing, bid-rigging, or limiting output), regardless of dishonesty. Any such arrangements must have occurred in the UK to be caught. As explained further below, this shift is partly offset by new exceptions, covering notification of customers, publication of arrangements, and compliance with a legal requirement, as well as defences, including that the accused did not intend to conceal...

Buying at auction Securing a property at auction brings several advantages over purchasing on the open market: you could obtain the property at a favourable price the auction route is swift lots at auction often present scope for improvement and adding value if the property is tenanted, income can be received from completion A buyer faces funding risk if a mortgage is needed for the completion monies. The contract becomes binding the instant the hammer falls and, therefore, if an unconditional mortgage offer for the purchase is not in place before the auction, the buyer carries the risk. Legal pack The seller’s legal advisers prepare a legal pack for the lot...

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date [ date ] Parties [ name of (first) Seller ] [ and [ name of second Seller ] both ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) with its registered office at ] [ address ] (Seller) [ name of Buyer ] [ of OR incorporated in England and Wales (company registration number [ number ]) whose registered office is at [ address ] ] (Buyer) 1 Definitions For this Agreement, the terms below shall have these meanings: Buyer’s Solicitors – [ name ] of [ address ] (reference [ details ]) or any other solicitors the Buyer notifies to the Seller; Deposit – £[ amount in figures ] ([ amount in words ] pounds); [ Independent Surveyor – an independent chartered surveyor with at least [ 10 ] years’ experience in valuing property of a comparable type and in a comparable location to the Property; ]...

Company number: [ insert number ] [ insert company name ] PLC Minutes of a meeting of the [ committee of the ] board of directors (the Meeting) of [ insert company name ] plc (the Company) Venue: [ insert place of meeting ] Date: [ insert day, month and year of meeting ] at [ insert time of meeting ] [ am OR pm ] Present [ Insert names of the director(s) physically present ] [ [ Insert names of any directors present by telephone as permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] (by telephone) ] [ [ Insert names of any directors present by other means permitted by the Company’s articles of association ] (by [ insert other means ]) ] In attendance [ [ Insert name of anyone in attendance, who does not count towards the quorum for the Meeting (eg the company secretary, any legal advisers) ] ] ...

Dynamic Purchasing Systems A Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) enables a contracting authority to acquire goods, services and works needed on a recurring basis without running a full public procurement exercise for every individual purchase. It provides a route to buy regularly required items efficiently while remaining compliant. A DPS is intended for sourcing common-use items that are widely available on the market and satisfy the contracting authority’s specifications. Further reading Practice Notes: Introduction to public contracts procurement and Introduction to framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems Crown Commercial Service (CCS): Dynamic purchasing system guidance Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), SI 2015/102, any authority setting up a DPS must follow the rules specified and cross‑referred in PCR 2015, SI 2015/102, reg 34. In keeping with all procedures under PCR 2015, SI 2015/102, contracting authorities should also adhere to the core procurement principles, treating all DPS participants equally and without discrimination, and acting in a transparent and proportionate manner...

Net settling a share award Net settling a share award is employed to cut down the quantity of shares a company is required to issue in order to discharge the award. Awards can, in principle, be net settled against both any exercise price due and any tax or National Insurance contributions (NICs) that arise. Key benefits of net settlement include reduced dilution for existing shareholders and the possibility for a company to stretch its headroom under any relevant dilution limits, thereby enabling those limits to accommodate more awards. Net settlement for tax and NICs means the company issues to the award holder a number of shares whose value equals the post‑tax amount they would have retained had they taken the full, gross allocation and sold sufficient shares on‑market to meet the pay as you earn (PAYE) and NICs obligations due at that point in time in practice. The company then settles the PAYE and NICs by remitting a cash payment to HMRC...