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Corporate Update Bulletin - 12 December 2024 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates. Welcome to the latest edition of Corporate Update, our fortnightly bulletin offering a five-minute read of the latest develop... Autumn Budget 2024 BLOG: Balancing growth and taxes: the UK government's corporate tax roadmap The announcement of a Spring Statement (rather than another Budget) on 26 March 2025 chimes with the promise of “predictability, stability and certainty” in the UK government’s corporate tax roadmap (which had sat uneasily with the surprise announcement o... Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin: 18 December 2024 UK Supreme Court confirms the Sky is not the limit when it comes to trade mark applications and bad faith In this briefing, we take a closer look at the main issues in the long-running dispute between SkyKick and Sky, the UK Supreme Court’s analysis and ultimate findings, and the likely implications of the decision on UK trade mark filing and enforcement prac... Reinventing the 9-5 Horizon Scanning 2024 A Guide to Takeovers in the United Kingdom Memorandum providing a general guide to takeovers of listed companies in the UK This memorandum is a general guide to takeovers of UK incorporated and listed companies subject to The City Code on Takeovers and Mergers. It describes the UK bodies whi... Ofwat publishes PR24 final determinations On December 19, 2024, Ofwat published its Final Determinations for Price Review 2024 (PR24), setting water sector prices for 2025-2030. These determinations, which follow the Draft Determinations from July, include significantly increased funding for base... BLOG: Autumn 2024 Budget: Support, prevention and deterrence to close the UK tax gap The Autumn 2024 budget sees the UK’s new Labour government act on a number its pre-election manifesto pledges (discussed here), and intentions stated in its ‘Close the Tax Gap’ document, to decrease the UK’s ‘tax gap’. This is the difference between tax c...