11 Jan, 2024 New Year, new code: key takeaways for trustees By Faye Jarvis Scarlett Yu The Pensions Regulator laid the long-awaited new general code in parliament yesterday, after a consultation in 2021. The new general...
22 Mar, 2023 UK schemes - prospectus mix and muddle By Tom Rose The exciting times for UK public M&A/ECM practitioners continue. The FCA has decided in PMB 44 not to publish a Technical Note saying...
30 Nov, 2022 Why we shouldn't shun due diligence By Dominic Sedghi Brooke Masters asks an excellent question in this morning’s Financial Times (link below, subscription required) in the wake of the...
29 Nov, 2022 Transparency, but not at any cost By Dominic Sedghi In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
29 Nov, 2022 Gearing the UK up for decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) By Dominic Sedghi Richard Giangrande Fred Whittell The Law Commission has published a call for evidence on decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs). The Commission intends to...
13 Oct, 2022 Nature based climate solutions and the LSE’s Voluntary Carbon Market By Rachel Richardson Climate scientists now believe that there is a 50% probability of the earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees celsius above...
14 Apr, 2022 Might US companies find comfort in separate CEO and chairs? By Dominic Sedghi Richard Burrows Francesca Bird JPMorgan last week announced its plans to split the roles of CEO and chair when Jamie Dimon steps down. Dimon has held the position of...
29 Mar, 2022 For climate disclosures, is this a race to the top? By Dominic Sedghi Rachel Richardson Harry Coghill The announcement last week by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it intends to introduce wide-ranging climate-related...
03 Mar, 2022 Corporate sustainability due diligence directive: the European Commission’s proposal By Shailen Patel Last week, the EU set out its proposal for a new Directive on corporate due diligence to enhance the regulatory framework on sustainable...
09 Sep, 2021 The missing cornerstone in sustainable finance: investee company ESG reporting By Lora Froud Tiffany Cox Gavin Haran The rush to regulate financial markets to produce ESG outcomes has brought focus to a problem: in the absence of good quality ESG data...
04 May, 2021 Local authority decision suggests virtual shareholder meetings may still be some way away yet By Dominic Sedghi Public companies in the UK have been grappling for some time now with whether to hold AGMs and other shareholder meetings virtually, for...
09 Dec, 2020 Following the leader? The effect of ESG recommendations by proxy advisers By Lucy Urwin One role of a proxy adviser is to provide voting recommendations to larger investors (asset managers, pension and investment funds etc)...
03 Dec, 2020 Under what conditions is a contract unconditional? By Sarah Shucksmith Much noted in (certain) news circles is the possibility that the Chancellor may seek to increase tax revenues by aligning the rates of...
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...
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 –...
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...