30 Oct, 2020 Taking flight: The SFO secures its ninth DPA By Max Hobbs The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has agreed its ninth deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), which has now received approval in the Crown...
29 Oct, 2020 Panel consultation on conditions to offers and the offer timetable By Dominic Sedghi The latest Panel consultation (PCP 2020/1) is probably the worst kept secret in the City given the extent of pre-consultation that took...
27 Oct, 2020 AIFMD review: delegation, NPPRs and asset-stripping By Harriet Miller The European Commission (the Commission) has launched a public consultation ahead of its review of the Alternative Investment Fund...
27 Oct, 2020 Covid-19 and the "meanwhile use" of unused and unoccupied premises By Rebecca Delaney Why do we need to rethink the use of space? In the context of a global pandemic in which social distancing is now the new normal,...
26 Oct, 2020 Retail therapy: France encourages non-institutional investment into private equity By Christopher Good Lora Froud Retail investors and private equity are not normally considered natural bedfellows. So the news that BPI, France’s state backed...
26 Oct, 2020 The Serious Fraud Office publishes new guidance on Deferred Prosecution Agreements By Helen Harvey On 23 October, the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) published comprehensive guidance on how they approach Deferred Prosecution Agreements...
22 Oct, 2020 New Post-Brexit Immigration Rules announced By Edward Reed The Home Office has laid before the UK Parliament a Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules. This document sets out the new...
21 Oct, 2020 Fraud detection: an increased role for auditors? By Helen Harvey The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK’s accounting regulator, wants to enhance and formalise the role of auditors in identifying...
20 Oct, 2020 European Commission moves to the next stage of the ELTIF review By Samuel Brooks Tiffany Cox Further to our post in September, the European Commission (Commission) has commenced a public consultation relating to its review of the...
15 Oct, 2020 Will the SPAC party get started in the UK? By Richard Burrows The press is rife with stories of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs: in the US, $48bn has been raised so far this year –...
15 Oct, 2020 OFSI releases annual review citing largest financial sanctions penalty in UK history By Elizabeth Compton On 9 October, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) released its annual review for the financial year ending 2020,...
12 Oct, 2020 Working from (a holiday) home: tax challenges from the "new normal" By Gregory Price With governments encouraging workers to stay away from the office to help limit the spread of Covid-19, many employers have found that...
09 Oct, 2020 ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol to go live on 23 October By William Sykes The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) today announced the launch date for long-anticipated ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks...
09 Oct, 2020 Independent scrutiny for pre-pack administrations By Paul Keddie Timothy Bromley-White The Government has announced that it will introduce new measures to subject pre-pack sales in an administration to a connected person to...
08 Oct, 2020 The NCA obtains its first forfeiture of property using a UWO By Max Hobbs On 7 October, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that for the first time it has successfully used an Unexplained Wealth Order...
02 Oct, 2020 Employers should take action now to prepare for the new immigration system By Edward Reed As the UK nears the end of the Brexit transition period, the Home Office has launched a marketing campaign to ensure that employers are...