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Autumn Budget 2025 Breakdown: Key takeaways for business buyers and sellers

Autumn Budget 2025 Breakdown: Key takeaways for business buyers and sellers
04 December 2025

Join Stuart Mullins and Nicky Goringe Larkin as they discuss some of the likely implications of the Autumn Budget 2025 for those looking to buy and sell businesses.

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  • 17 January 2020
  • Employment

A birthday to remember? A legal secretary loses age discrimination claim after 50th birthday “well wishes”

In Munro v Sampson Coward LLP, a legal secretary claimed she was subjected to age discrimination when a colleague, who was of a similar age to her, made a comment about her 50th birthday.

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  • 15 January 2020
  • Immigration

How to meet the financial requirement for a spouse visa: Salaried and non-salaried employment FAQs

Following on from our previous blog, there are a number of sources of income which can be relied on to meet the financial requirement for a spouse visa.

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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Lending money to Directors

It is not unusual for a Company to lend money to a director of a Company, nor is it unlawful. However, there are a number of points to consider, including declarations of interest and how this sits with the constitution of the Company and a directors’ statutory duties generally and also the treatment of the loan from a tax perspective – not only for the director but the Company too.
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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Removing a Director under the Companies Act

The Companies Act 2006 contains a right for members of the Company to seek the removal of a director from office by convening a general meeting of its members and passing an ordinary resolution. This provision is seen as sacrosanct in the Companies Act 2006 – any attempt to exclude this right in the Companies articles of association would be unenforceable.

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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

Share buybacks and payments

The concept of share buybacks is a useful one. The ability for a company to buy back its own shares is seen as a useful tool for capital re-organisations and a tax efficient way in which to remove a shareholder or class of shareholders.
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  • 14 January 2020
  • Corporate and M&A

The Rewards and Risks of the ‘Subject to Contract’ Label

Following the recent decision in Farrar v Rylatt , it is clear that use of the phrase ‘subject to contract’ continues to create work for lawyers in commercial situations and relationships.

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