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‘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...
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SFO uses its first listed asset order
By Neill Blundell 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,...
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Are supermarkets the saviours of finance for the retail sector during Covid-19 and beyond?
By Laura Uberoi
McKinsey & Company have recently published a sector by sector report highlighting the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of their...
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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...
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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...
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Are we about to see a resurgence of P2Ps?
By Macfarlanes
2019 was a bumper year for P2Ps, with over 30 deals including landmark transactions such as Thoma Bravo’s £3bn offer for Sophos Group...
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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...
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A budding industry: the FCA considers the listing of cannabis companies
By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a short but welcome statement setting out its position on the listing of...
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Current and future regulatory landscape for AI and machine learning in the investment management sector
By Macfarlanes
On Tuesday this week, Mark Lewis, senior consultant in IT, fintech and outsourcing at Macfarlanes, took part in an event hosted by The...
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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...
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Judgment handed down in FCA Business Interruption test case: FCA reports that it largely favours policyholders
By Alexander Cibulskis
Update - read our longer article reflecting on the judgment and its implications hereThis morning the High Court handed down its judgment...
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(Anti)-money laundering? The FCA has brought 0 AML prosecutions in 2020
By Neill Blundell 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...
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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...
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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...
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EU securitisation – reporting templates published
By Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher Jamie Macpherson +1 more...
Following a long wait for certainty as to the position of reporting in public and private securitisations, the ESMA reporting templates...