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Oct 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Oliver Williams |Edward Tran |Alex Potten |Omar Malek
At a meeting of business leaders and global investors in London in mid-October, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the audience that his government would "rip up" Britain's bureaucracy in a bid to unlock the "shock and awe of investment." A month prior, Sir Keir's government published its National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) Report for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (Report) of scrutiny and intervention in proposed investments in or acquisitions of British companies...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Omar Malek |Alex Potten |Edward Tran
At a meeting of business leaders and global investors in London in mid-October, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the audience that his government would "rip up" Britain's bureaucracy in a bid to unlock the "shock and awe of investment." A month prior, Sir Keir's government published its National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) Report for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (Report) of scrutiny and intervention in proposed investments in or acquisitions of British companies...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Oliver Williams |Edward Tran |Alex Potten |Omar Malek
At a meeting of business leaders and global investors in London in mid-October, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the audience that his government would "rip up" Britain's bureaucracy in a bid to unlock the "shock and awe of investment." A month prior, Sir Keir's government published its National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSI Act) Report for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (Report) of scrutiny and intervention in proposed investments in or acquisitions of British companies...
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Chris Harrison |Omar Malek |Alex Potten |Alex Taylor
Further to the publication of the Economic Crime and Corporate
Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) (see our previous advisory), we are now
beginning to see many of the measures that relate to Companies
House beginning to bite.
We have summarised below various changes that came into force on
4 March 2024, as they affect UK companies.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Chris Harrison |Omar Malek |Alex Potten |Alex Taylor |Edward Tran |George Warren | +2 more
Further to the publication of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) (see our previous advisory), we are now beginning to see many of the measures that relate to Companies House beginning to bite. We have summarised below various changes that came into force on 4 March 2024, as they affect UK companies.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Omar Malek
A year and a half after the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 received Royal Assent, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Act) came into law on 26 October 2023. Although the Act does contain some amendments to its predecessor in relation to overseas entities, it is more far-reaching than that, with an apparent fundamental emphasis on the reduction of and protection against corporate fraud.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
financialregulationintl.com | Oliver Williams |Edward Tran |David Wood |Omar Malek
2023-09-27 00:00:00.0The UK economy continues to deal with significant upheaval, and the outlook for investors holding significant equity stakes in UK portfolio companies is increasingly hard to predict. A change in the trading relationship with the EU, the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, continuing widespread inflation, an increase in global energy prices, rising interest rates and turbulence in international banking markets have all contributed to this challenging environment.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Omar Malek |Alex Potten |Edward Tran |Oliver Williams
Following a recent Court of Appeal decision, investors,
portfolio companies and their advisers should be aware that English
courts may, on occasion, adopt seemingly strained interpretations
of ambiguous or unclear contract terms to give effect to what the
court considers to be the outcome most consistent with commercial
common sense. Whether such interpretations may constitute
overreaching by the courts remains to be seen.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Omar Malek |Alex Potten |Edward Tran
Following a recent Court of Appeal decision, investors, portfolio companies and their advisers should be aware that English courts may, on occasion, adopt seemingly strained interpretations of ambiguous or unclear contract terms to give effect to what the court considers to be the outcome most consistent with commercial common sense. Whether such interpretations may constitute overreaching by the courts remains to be seen.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
natlawreview.com | Omar Malek
Following a recent Court of Appeal decision, investors, portfolio companies and their advisers should be aware that English courts may, on occasion, adopt seemingly strained interpretations of ambiguous or unclear contract terms to give effect to what the court considers to be the outcome most consistent with commercial common sense. Whether such interpretations may constitute overreaching by the courts remains to be seen.
