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UK Societas definition

What does UK Societas mean? A UK Societas is the UK-only successor to a Societas Europaea (SE) for companies that were still registered as SEs in the UK at the end of the brexit transition. In practice, it denotes a public limited-liability company that kept the core SE framework in UK law but no longer has EU-wide recognition or cross-border mobility. The term is created and governed by UK secondary legislation that amended the European Public Limited-Liability Company regime on EU exit. On 1 January 2021, every SE on the UK register automatically converted into a UK Societas. No new UK Societas can now...

UK Societas post‑Brexit: legal framework, governance, shareholders and employee participation, conversion to UK PLC, and winding up (Archived)

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It examines the legal and regulatory framework for the corporate form called a UK Societas. The UK Societas derives from the European company model—the Societas Europaea (SE)—which, following the UK’s departure from the EU, can no longer be used domestically. This material is provided for context only.

European companies and the impact of Brexit

A European company, or Societas Europaea (SE), is a corporate body that can be incorporated within the European Union (see Council Regulation 2157/2001/EEC of 8 October 2001 on the Statute of a European Company (the SE Regulations)). Once established, it has separate legal personality, is entered on the register of the member state hosting its head office, yet enjoys EU-wide status and recognition. An SE is a public Limited Liability entity and is governed by the law of the member state where its registered office sits. Before the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a European company could be registered in the UK. Since the UK left the EU, such registrations are no longer possible in the UK...

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