Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more
Major Update on FRC Policy and Reset on Corporate Governance Reforms Plus CMIT Open Letter, With More to Come - On 7 November 2023, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) announced a significant and wide-ranging policy...more
The FRC’s future work will be assessed through the lens of the UK’s economic growth and international competitiveness. On 7 November 2023, the FRC announced a significant and wide-ranging policy update which included a...more
This week, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the first list of successful signatories of the revamped 2020 UK Stewardship Code (the Code). While we note that the number of successful signatories have fallen this...more
On 18 March 2021, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy launched a consultation on its proposals for wide-ranging reforms to modernise the UK’s audit and corporate governance regime. The reforms proposed...more
"Investing With Purpose", the November 2020 report of the UK's Asset Management Taskforce, a grouping of the UK Government, asset managers, regulators and other stakeholders, is primarily aimed at improving stewardship and a...more
In November 2019, we reported that the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (the “FRC”) had issued a revised Stewardship Code (the “Stewardship Code”) which came into effect from 1 January 2020. The FRC will publish its first...more
Interest in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies of companies and their impact on the wider community has continued to increase amongst institutional investors, retail shareholders and the media during the...more
On 24 October 2019, the Financial Reporting Council (the "FRC"), the regulatory body for auditors, accountants and actuaries, published the UK Stewardship Code 2020 (the "Code"). In its press release, the FRC states that the...more