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In this issue: Company, disclosures, records and registers Takeovers of public companies Equity capital market updates News alerts: daily and weekly Key dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Company, disclosures, records and registers Companies House outlines new registration requirements for ACSPs Companies House has issued a blog post that sets out the new registration requirements for authorised corporate service providers (ACSPs). Established by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, ACSPs form part of a more robust framework designed to verify the identity of those submitting filings to Companies House on a company's behalf. The category will span third-party agents, such as solicitors' practices and company formation agents, and they will need to be registered with Companies House before making any submissions. The underlying purpose of mandating registration is to ensure Companies House can clearly and confidently identify who is acting for companies...

Hymans Robertson reported that, with several new insurers entering the fray, supply now surpasses demand in the risk transfer market. This marks a stark and notable turnaround from 2023, when heightened demand effectively edged smaller schemes out of contention and left them unable to complete transactions. 'The evolving composition of the UK risk transfer market signals a genuinely exciting period indeed for small schemes,' said Iain Church, head of core transactions at Hymans Robertson...

In this issue: Probate Trusts Court of Protection UK taxes for Private Client HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Budgets and Finance Bills Pensions, insurance and tax efficient investments Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk®Private Client: a Lexis+® community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information Probate HMCTS Probate application processing times continued to improve to the end of 2024 HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has released figures showing that probate application processing times kept improving across the year to December 2024. In December 2024, the average wait was a little over four weeks, a striking turnaround from the end of 2023, when applicants typically faced 12 weeks for their applications to be dealt with. Digital submissions, which represent...

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and not being maintained at present or updated further. STOP PRESS: The UK’s prospectus framework, formerly grounded in the EU Prospectus Regulation, has been superseded by the Public Offers and Admission to Trading Regulations 2024 (the POATRs), with granular admission-to-trading requirements now set out in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) admission rules. The FCA issued its final rules on 15 July 2025. Those final rules took legal effect on 19 January 2026. In October 2025, the FCA released Primary Market Bulletin 58 which, among other matters, provided guidance on both the timing and approval of prospectuses (and supplementary prospectuses) and confirmed the removal of Listing Particulars as an admission document under the new framework. For more on the principal features of the new POATRs framework relevant to the debt capital markets, see Practice Note: The UK Prospectus Regulation—essentials [Archived]—Reform of the UK prospectus regime. This Practice Note sets out and describes the approval regime for prospectuses under the current UK Prospectus...

This Practice Note sets out how prospectuses are approved under the UK public offers and admissions to trading regime that took effect on 19 January 2026. It concentrates on the obligations as they apply to the debt capital markets. For further detail on the regulatory architecture of the new regime and the principal provisions affecting debt capital markets, see Practice Note: The new UK public offers and admissions to trading regime—essentials. For guidance on the practical consequences for debt capital markets deals, see Practice Note: The new UK public offers and admissions to trading regime—key practice points for debt capital markets. In summary A refreshed regulatory regime for public offers and admissions to trading of securities in the UK—covering when a prospectus is needed and what it must contain—commenced on 19 January 2026, supplanting the earlier EU law‑derived framework. From 19 January 2026, Assimilated Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the UK Prospectus Regulation), the FCA’s Prospectus Regulation Rules sourcebook (PRR) and specified provisions of Part 6 of the Financial Services...

DSTBTD Limited (an SME) pursued a Part 26A restructuring plan, with a convening hearing in June 2025 and a sanction hearing in August 2025. The principal points are outlined below (capitalised terms not defined here have the meanings given in the sanction judgment). This Deal Debrief sits within our Restructuring plans toolkit. For a deeper review of key metrics from the RPs filed in 2024 and commentary from leading lights in the restructuring sphere, see News Analysis: Market Insights Trend Report—trends in Part 26A restructuring plans in 2024. Name of plan company DSTBTD Limited trading as Distributed (the Company). Industry sector Technology and information support services. Place of debtor’s incorporation and jurisdictional factors The Company was incorporated in England and Wales. Legal counsel involved The Company: Mr Andrew Mace of Tanfield Chambers (instructed by Lewis Silkin LLP). Other advisers involved Turnaround adviser: Tony Groom of K2 Business Partners drafted the RP documents, liaised with HMRC and supported the...

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