25 Apr, 2024 Restructuring plans: an international perspective By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Simon Beale Katherine Hensby +1 more... Show less On Tuesday 23 April 2024, Macfarlanes hosted a roundtable discussion on the EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency of 20 June 2019...
17 Apr, 2024 The CREFC Quarterly Market Sentiment Survey: an improved outlook for the real estate finance market By Laura Bretherton Nick Aird In March 2024, CREFC – the trade association for real estate lenders and the real estate finance market in Europe – published the results...
08 Apr, 2024 Sustainably-linked loans: navigating new Loan Market Association guidance for fund finance facilities By Adam Caines Natalie Liu As the financial sector stands at the crossroads of economic growth and sustainability, the Loan Market Association's (LMA) will hope...
22 Mar, 2024 Regulatory relief: UK government introduces legislation to reverse Supreme Court judgment in PACCAR on litigation funding agreements By Kirstie Hutchinson Malcolm Hitching Jamie Macpherson Finlay Leggat +1 more... Show less On 19 March 2024, the Government introduced draft legislation in the House of Lords, in the form of the Litigation Funding Agreements...
13 Mar, 2024 UK EMIR – draft Q&As on reporting By William Sykes Robert Daniell Edward Karsten Background The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) previously published Policy Statement (PS23/2) setting out...
14 Feb, 2024 EU-niversal due diligence: the saga continues By Richard Fletcher Ryan Moore Jack Lewis ESMA gave the securitisation industry an early Christmas present on 21 December 2023 by publishing a consultation paper, Consultation on...
31 Jan, 2024 An overview of legal finance in England and Wales By Malcolm Hitching Ross Mullen On Monday 22 January, Burford Capital hosted a webinar on legal finance in England and Wales, which Macfarlanes was pleased to join. The...
26 Jan, 2024 2024 changes to derivatives reporting requirements By Christopher Acton Robert Daniell Christine Long Edward Karsten +1 more... Show less The EU and the UK have published rules that will this year change the EMIR and UK EMIR requirements for reporting derivatives. This...
16 Jan, 2024 UK litigation and legal assets funding - trends for 2024 By Malcolm Hitching James Popperwell Finlay Leggat 2023 was a busy and turbulent year in the UK litigation funding and legal assets sector, dominated as it was by the fallout from the...
04 Jan, 2024 Another junior creditor challenge to senior creditor enforcement: CPF One Limited & anor v Ortus Secured Finance I Limited By Adam Caines Judy Chu Subsequent to the High Court’s decision in Galapagos Bidco S.à r.l. v Dr Frank Kebekus [2023] WHC 13931 (Ch) (for more on which see our...
19 Dec, 2023 Diverging paths: EU-niversal and UK due diligence requirements for securitisations By Richard Fletcher Ryan Moore Jack Lewis The European Commission published a report on the functioning of the EU securitisation regulation on 10 October 2022 (the SECR Report)...
04 Dec, 2023 Don’t fall asleep at the wheel: the role of directors in the current markets By Jat Bains Paul Keddie Lois Horne Katherine Hensby +1 more... Show less On Thursday 9 November, Macfarlanes hosted a webinar which focused on the role of directors and in particular navigating those stresses...
21 Nov, 2023 Lender security over rent accounts: navigating account bank requirements By Laura Bretherton Sophia Bell In real estate finance transactions, a borrower will usually be required to grant a charge over their bank accounts to the lender. One of...
20 Nov, 2023 AIFMD II - Final compromise text published By Gavin Haran Samuel Brooks Michael Sholem Shang-Hsuen Koh +1 more... Show less The “final text” of the amending directive (AIFMD II) on the amendment of Directive 2011/61/EU on alternative investment fund managers...
16 Nov, 2023 Operational real estate finance breakfast panel By Laura Bretherton On Wednesday 15 November, Macfarlanes hosted a breakfast panel discussion which focused on financing of operational real estate (OpRE). ...
15 Nov, 2023 Galapagos restructuring ends with an effective “Distressed Disposal” and a win for senior creditors By Timothy Bromley-White Joshua Portway Any restructuring where there are multiple tiers of debt and lenders with different interests and views can be tricky. Lenders will try...