COVID-19 Corporate Update for UK Public Companies

COVID-19 has created many challenges for both public companies and a range of regulators tasked with ensuring market functionality and integrity. In the past few weeks, Government, regulators and advisory bodies relevant to the capital markets have moved to act quickly where they can to announce new measures or provide guidance aimed to address areas of particular and immediate concern. In other areas, shorter term actions have been announced and later supplemented with more detail when the way forward is clearer. As the national and global response to COVID-19 and its economic effects evolves, further measures are likely to follow.