Mar 22, 2023 UK schemes - prospectus mix & 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...
Nov 30, 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...
Nov 29, 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...
Nov 29, 2022 Gearing the UK up for decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) By Dominic Sedghi Richard Giangrande Mark Lewis Fred Whittell +1 more... Show less The Law Commission has published a call for evidence on decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs). The Commission intends to...
Oct 13, 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...
Apr 14, 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...
Mar 29, 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...
Sep 09, 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...
May 04, 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...
Feb 11, 2021 The Pension Schemes Bill 2019-2021 has now received royal assent By Macfarlanes The long-awaited Pension Schemes Bill 2019-2021 has now received royal assent.The Pension Schemes Bill 2019-2021 (the Bill) will now be...
Jan 15, 2021 Supreme Court judgment concludes FCA business interruption test case - FCA reports that more policyholders will have valid claims By Alexander Cibulskis Today the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the FCA's Business Interruption (BI) test case.The judgment substantially upholds the...
Jan 14, 2021 New Pension Schemes Bill won’t apply retrospectively By Macfarlanes The Pensions Minister has confirmed that the new Pensions Regulator’s powers introduced by the Pension Schemes Bill will not apply...
Dec 09, 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)...
Dec 03, 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...
Oct 29, 2020 Panel consultation on conditions to offers and the offer timetable By Robert Boyle 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...
Oct 15, 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 –...