Pre-Emption Group

Company law - good practice - listed companies - pre-emption rights - UK

(PEG).

The role of the UK's Pre-Emption Group includes, among other responsibilities:

• Monitoring the development of practice in relation to the disapplication of pre-emption rights; and
• Providing the market with a clear view of what is regarded as acceptable practice when raising equity and equity-related capital non-pre-emptively in the UK equity capital markets.

The Pre-Emption Group's members include listed companies, investors and intermediaries.

The Pre-Emption Group publishes a Statement of Principles on disapplying pre-emption rights.

See also

• An introduction to equity capital
• Cash box placing
• Company law
• Dilution
• Disapplication
• Equity
• Equity capital
• Equity capital market (ECM)
• Good practice
• Intermediary
• Investor
• Jurisdiction
• Law
• Listed company
• Non-pre-emptive issue
• Pre-emption rights
• Rights issue
• Shareholders
• Shareholders' agreement
• Statement of Principles (pre-emption rights - UK)

Other resource

• The Pre-Emption Group - about us