Macfarlanes

September 25, 2020

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

‘Portability’ of leveraged debt facilities – a trend for the future?

Yesterday, the FT published an article highlighting the recent trend for lenders to agree to the inclusion of ‘portability’ language in...

‘Portability’ of leveraged debt facilities – a trend for the future? featured image

Neill Blundell, James Reid

September 24, 2020

0 0 109

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

SFO uses its first listed asset order

On Wednesday the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it had used its first listed asset order (LAO) to seize £500,000 of jewellery,...

SFO uses its first listed asset order featured image

Laura Uberoi

September 24, 2020

0 0 20

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Are supermarkets the saviours of finance for the retail sector during Covid-19 and beyond?

McKinsey & Company have recently published a sector by sector report highlighting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of their...

Are supermarkets the saviours of finance for the retail sector during Covid-19 and beyond? featured image

Gregory Price

September 24, 2020

0 0 39

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Paying for the pandemic: EU targets corporate taxes

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...

Paying for the pandemic: EU targets corporate taxes featured image

Timothy Bromley-White

September 24, 2020

0 0 48

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Failure of a scheme of arrangement: sanction should not be taken for granted

The case of Re Sunbird Business Services Limited [2020] EWHC 2493 (Ch) is a salutary reminder that the court will not simply rubber stamp...

Failure of a scheme of arrangement: sanction should not be taken for granted featured image

Robert Ogilvy Watson

September 22, 2020

0 0 72

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Are we about to see a resurgence of P2Ps?

2019 was a bumper year for P2Ps, with over 30 deals including landmark transactions such as Thoma Bravo’s £3bn offer for Sophos Group...

Are we about to see a resurgence of P2Ps? featured image

Oli Bowley, Nikolas Ireland

September 21, 2020

0 0 18

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Check your privilege

In a judgment handed down on 11 September in PJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm), Mrs Justice Moulder held that...

Neill Blundell, Max Hobbs

September 18, 2020

0 0 23

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

A budding industry: the FCA considers the listing of cannabis companies

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a short but welcome statement setting out its position on the listing of...

A budding industry: the FCA considers the listing of cannabis companies featured image

Roisin Cregan

September 18, 2020

0 0 27

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Current and future regulatory landscape for AI and machine learning in the investment management sector

On Tuesday this week, Mark Lewis, senior consultant in IT, fintech and outsourcing at Macfarlanes, took part in an event hosted by The...

Current and future regulatory landscape for AI and machine learning in the investment management sector featured image

Samuel Brooks, Tiffany Cox

September 17, 2020

0 0 3

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

European Commission launches inception impact assessment of ELTIF review

Further to our post in June, the European Commission (Commission) has commenced its review of the regulatory framework of the European...

European Commission launches inception impact assessment of ELTIF review featured image

Alexander Cibulskis

September 15, 2020

0 0 38

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Judgment handed down in FCA Business Interruption test case: FCA reports that it largely favours policyholders

Update - read our longer article reflecting on the judgment and its implications here

This morning the High Court handed down its judgment...

Judgment handed down in FCA Business Interruption test case: FCA reports that it largely favours policyholders featured image

Neill Blundell, Max Hobbs

September 14, 2020

0 0 47

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

(Anti)-money laundering? The FCA has brought 0 AML prosecutions in 2020

A new Freedom of Information Act request served on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that so far in 2020 the FCA has...

(Anti)-money laundering? The FCA has brought 0 AML prosecutions in 2020 featured image

Jeremy McCallum

September 11, 2020

0 0 9

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Corporate criminal offence - three years on

It’s now three years since the Criminal Finances Act and the birth of the corporate criminal offence (CCO) - the offence of failing...

Corporate criminal offence - three years on featured image

Edward Reed

September 11, 2020

0 0 18

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

Where is there a will? The Government finds a way… a.k.a. how to be “present” in spirit

It is a reasonably well-known challenge of making an English will that the testator or testatrix must sign “in the presence of” two...

Where is there a will? The Government finds a way… a.k.a. how to be “present” in spirit featured image

Edward Karsten, Richard Fletcher, Jamie Macpherson, Ryan Moore

September 4, 2020

0 0 12

https://www.passle.net/Content/Images/passle_logo-186px.png Passle https://passle.net

EU securitisation – reporting templates published

Following a long wait for certainty as to the position of reporting in public and private securitisations, the ESMA reporting templates...

Contributors

Macfarlanes Archive

‘Portability’ of leveraged debt facilities – a trend for the future?

SFO uses its first listed asset order

Are supermarkets the saviours of finance for the retail sector during Covid-19 and beyond?

Paying for the pandemic: EU targets corporate taxes

Failure of a scheme of arrangement: sanction should not be taken for granted

Are we about to see a resurgence of P2Ps?

Check your privilege

A budding industry: the FCA considers the listing of cannabis companies

Current and future regulatory landscape for AI and machine learning in the investment management sector

European Commission launches inception impact assessment of ELTIF review

Judgment handed down in FCA Business Interruption test case: FCA reports that it largely favours policyholders

(Anti)-money laundering? The FCA has brought 0 AML prosecutions in 2020

Corporate criminal offence - three years on

Where is there a will? The Government finds a way… a.k.a. how to be “present” in spirit

EU securitisation – reporting templates published