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High Court refuses to strike out a misrepresentation claim arising from a draft disclosure letter
Topic: RPC Big Deal 20.06.2025 Read moreSigned, sealed, (but not) delivered: why email wasn’t enough in Hughes v CSC
Topic: RPC Big Deal 01.05.2025 Read more
PLC QTRLY - Q1 2025
Topic: Public companies 29.04.2025 Read morePISCES: New platform for intermittent trading of shares in unquoted companies
Topic: RPC Big Deal 10.04.2025 Read more
Model Articles again deemed suitable for sole director companies
Topic: RPC Big Deal 26.02.2025 Read more
PLC QTRLY - Q4 2024
Topic: Public companies 23.01.2025 Read more
Corporate transparency reforms: what comes next?
Topic: RPC Big Deal 20.12.2024 Read moreTake notice: Court of Appeal reverses High Court decision on validity of notice of warranty claim
Topic: RPC Big DealLast year we reported on the High Court's decision in Drax Smart Generation Holdco Limited v Scottish Power Retail Holdings Limited [2023] EWHC 412 (Comm) that a purchaser's breach of warranty claim under a share purchase agreement (SPA) was time-barred by a clause that required the purchaser to notify its claim before a specified date "stating in reasonable detail the nature of the claim and the amount claimed (detailing the Buyer's calculation of the Loss thereby alleged to have been suffered)".
11.11.2024 Read moreAutumn Budget 2024 – Main tax announcements
Topic: RPC Big Deal 04.11.2024 Read moreUK National Security Screening: NSIA Annual Report 2023-24
Topic: RPC Big DealOn 10 September 2024, the Government published its third Annual Report (Report) into the acquisition and investment screening regime established by the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA), covering the year from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. With very limited information regarding cases reviewed under the NSIA regime being publicly available, the Report provides useful colour and insight around the current application of the regime by the Government's Investment Security Unit (ISU) (which administers the operation of the NSIA) and potential trends.
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