25 Sep, 2020 "Portability" of leveraged debt facilities – a trend for the future? By Malcolm Hitching Yesterday, the FT published an article highlighting the recent trend for lenders to agree to the inclusion of ‘portability’ language in...
24 Sep, 2020 SFO uses its first listed asset order By James Reid On Wednesday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it had used its first listed asset order (LAO) to seize £500,000 of jewellery,...
24 Sep, 2020 Paying for the pandemic: EU targets corporate taxes By Gregory Price It is interesting to read today that the EU Commission draws a direct link between the EU's €750bn recovery fund and a desire that member...
24 Sep, 2020 Failure of a scheme of arrangement: sanction should not be taken for granted By Timothy Bromley-White The case of Re Sunbird Business Services Limited [2020] EWHC 2493 (Ch) is a salutary reminder that the court will not simply rubber stamp...
21 Sep, 2020 Check your privilege By Oli Bowley Nikolas Ireland In a judgment handed down on 11 September in PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm), Mrs Justice Moulder held that legal...
18 Sep, 2020 A budding industry: the FCA considers the listing of cannabis companies By Max Hobbs The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a short but welcome statement setting out its position on the listing of...
17 Sep, 2020 European Commission launches inception impact assessment of ELTIF review By Samuel Brooks Tiffany Cox Further to our post in June, the European Commission (Commission) has commenced its review of the regulatory framework of the European...
14 Sep, 2020 (Anti)-money laundering? The FCA has brought 0 AML prosecutions in 2020 By Max Hobbs A new Freedom of Information Act request served on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that so far in 2020 the FCA has...
11 Sep, 2020 Corporate criminal offence - three years on By Jeremy McCallum It’s now three years since the Criminal Finances Act and the birth of the corporate criminal offence (CCO) - the offence of failing to...
11 Sep, 2020 Where is there a will? The Government finds a way… a.k.a. how to be “present” in spirit By Edward Reed It is a reasonably well-known challenge of making an English will that the testator or testatrix must sign “in the presence of” two...
04 Sep, 2020 EU securitisation – reporting templates published By Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher Jamie Macpherson Ryan Moore +1 more... Show less Following a long wait for certainty as to the position of reporting in public and private securitisations, the ESMA reporting templates...