Oct 24, 2023 Going Dutch on sustainability: the ACM adopts Policy Rule to avoid falling foul of Commission’s Guidance on Horizontal Co-operation By Andrew Morrison The approach of European Competition Authorities (both at EU and National level) to sustainability agreements has been keenly debated in...
Oct 23, 2023 UK Supreme Court guidance on staying court proceedings in favour of arbitration By Chloe Edworthy Christopher Charlton Nikolas Ireland Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) (Appellant) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others (Respondents)...
Oct 20, 2023 English courts may enforce the unenforceable By Christopher Charlton Mark Edwardes Jones Sheila Dines Blaise Kingan +1 more... Show less The recent case of Invest Bank PSC v El-Husseini and others [2023] EWHC 2302 (Comm) clarifies that foreign judgment debts may be...
Oct 20, 2023 Home Office offering automation of settled status post-Brexit By Rowan Grimshaw A recent High Court ruling has engineered a change in the process for obtaining settled status for anyone who is under the post-Brexit...
Oct 18, 2023 FCA to reform the UK's AIFMD and NURS regimes By Lora Froud Gavin Haran The Chair of the FCA, Ashley Alder, gave a speech on 11 October 2023 outlining the regulator’s approach to the reform of the UK’s asset...
Oct 16, 2023 UK’s financial regulators consult on new diversity and inclusion rules By Helen Carter Daniel Fisher Olivia Pearson Madeleine Brown +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) have both launched consultation papers on a new...
Oct 09, 2023 Penalising default interest: a spotlight on the bridging loan market By Adam Caines Laura Uberoi Christian Anthony Rachael Preston Katherine Hensby +2 more... Show less Earlier this year, the High Court ruled that a clause in a loan agreement which imposed a default interest rate of 4% per month...
Oct 03, 2023 Transparency to navigate a new normal: IOSCO reports on proposed good practices on leveraged loans, and emerging risks in private finance By Andrew Perkins Kirstie Hutchinson Jamie Macpherson Katherine Hensby +1 more... Show less On 14 September 2023, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the internal policy forum for securities...