In the UK today, the Financial Reporting Council has published a thematic review assessing the quality and maturity of climate-related metrics and targets disclosures.
On 29 June 2023, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 received royal assent. It represents one of the most important pieces of legislation for the United Kingdom’s financial serv...
On 10 July 2023, the UK’s Digitisation Taskforce published its interim recommendations on the eradication of paper-based processes in the UK securities settlement infrastructure.
On 12 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) fined Illumina €432 million for closing its acquisition of GRAIL without prior EC approval. Representing 10% of Illumina’s global revenue...
Today, the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation comes into force. This gives the European Commission new, far-reaching powers to investigate whether companies receiving non-EU state financial ...
Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce and counsel Joe Scrace and Dominic Foulkes authored “Structuring cross-border public M&A transactions: Key considerations” in F...
On 15 June 2023, The Insider Dealing (Securities and Regulated Markets) Order 2023 enters into force. It amends the Criminal Justice Act 1993, which sets out the UK’s criminal insider d...
On 24 May 2023, the Financial Reporting Council launched a public consultation on proposed revisions to the UK Corporate Governance Code. These revisions focus on the legislative and gove...
Davis Polk partner and Europe practice head Will Pearce is delighted to be the contributing editor of The Law Reviews’ 13th edition of The Corporate Governance Review, a comprehensive o...
