by Ben Morgan and Holly Insley

Corporate governance has long been an area of focus for boards and recent proposals in the UK have ensured that this remains the case.

The Financial Reporting Council consulted in late 2017 on proposed changes to its Corporate Governance Code for quoted companies.  The final text of the changes is expected to be published this summer, for introduction in 2019. 

The focus on governance extends beyond the quoted company arena.  Legislation laid before Parliament in June 2018 will, amongst other things, require large UK private companies to disclose in their annual directors’ report details of the corporate governance arrangements they have operated during the previous year. At the same time, a consultation has been launched on proposed corporate governance principles for large private companies, which the government hopes will be adopted by those companies as an appropriate framework when complying with the new governance-related reporting requirement. Continue reading →