Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce, partner Gordon Milne and counsel William Tong authored “Achieving a successful exit through an auction process in today’s mark...
On July 11, 2024, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final UK Listing Rules, which come into force on July 29, 2024. The new rules represent a major overhaul of th...
Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce and counsel Joe Scrace authored “M&A involving UK-listed companies: Impact of forthcoming listing rule reform” in Financier Wor...
The update recaps certain changes to the Takeover Code and relevant Takeover Panel and industry guidance issued since publication of the 14th edition of the Takeover Code six months ago.
On April 24, 2024, the Takeover Panel published consultation PCP 2024/1, in which it proposes to narrow the scope of companies to which the Takeover Code applies. The proposed amendments ...
Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce served as the contributing editor of Lexology’s 14th edition of In-Depth: Corporate Governance (formerly The Corporate Governance...
FTSE Russell has published a summary of provisional changes to its FTSE UK Index Series Ground Rules to cater for the proposed UK listing regime changes by the Financial Conduct Authority...
Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce authored the UK chapter of Financier Worldwide’s “Shareholder activism & engagement” in-depth feature. In the chapter, Will p...
The Financial Conduct Authority has published its long-awaited, further consultation paper seeking views on major proposed reforms to the UK listing regime, and setting out proposals for ...