The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in two Response Statements to its public consultations in the second half of 2017.
On 11 Decemb...
In early 2017, the UK Financial Conduct Authority consulted on proposals to reform and enhance the UK primary markets. The FCA looked at a wide span of issues, ranging from a consideratio...
Will Pearce and John Bick are delighted to be contributing editors of the inaugural edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2018, a comprehensive overview of the laws, regulati...
On 17 October 2017, the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy published a Green Paper setting out the UK Government’s proposals to reform and strengthen its powers to s...
On 12 September 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published the twelfth edition of the Takeover Code, replacing in its entirety the previous edition published in September 2011 in the wake of K...
On July 13, 2017, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published a consultation paper entitled “Proposal to create a new premium listing category for sovereign controlled ...
Following the publication of the EU Prospectus Regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union on June 14, 2017, ESMA has now published draft technical advice on prospectus discl...
IN THIS ISSUE:
Introduction
Supervisory Convergence in Financial Services
Proposals to amend the EMIR Supervisory Regime
On June 23, 2017, we passed the one year mark since the refer...
IN THIS ISSUE:
Introduction
Cross-border models for financial services
Societas Europea and cross-border mergers
On March 29th, 2017, the UK delivered a letter from the UK Pri...
Shareholder activism in the UK remained topical in 2016 with a number of high profile campaigns including ValueAct’s investment in Rolls Royce, Elliot’s investment in Meggitt and int...
