UK: The Registration of Overseas Entities - draft Bill published

A draft of the Registration of Overseas Entities Bill has been published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: see here. The Bill, when law, will provide for the framework requiring overseas entities owning land in the United Kingdom to register with Companies House and to provide information concerning their beneficial owners (and to update this information). Published alongside the Bill is a research report exploring the potential impacts of the proposed register: see here (pdf).