May 09, 2023 Sustainable drafting for sustainability-linked loans? By Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less On 4 May 2023 the Loan Market Association (LMA) published model provisions for those borrowing, lending and arranging...
Apr 25, 2023 What's the outlook for UK real estate financing? By Ranvir Singh In this article, we take a look at the state of the UK real estate sector, identify positive signs in the short to medium term, and...
Nov 24, 2022 Getting comfortable with letters of comfort By Paul Keddie Jamie Macpherson Maddie Walls As the name suggests, letters of comfort have long been regarded as offering little more than passive "comfort" to their recipients....
Nov 08, 2022 When will developments in a foreign law affect your English law contract/financial instrument? By Christopher Charlton Ed Llewelyn-Evans Madeleine Brown In Banca Intesa Sanpaolo Spa and another v Comune di Venezia (2022) EWHC 2586 (Comm) (Venezia) the English High Court held that two...
Oct 13, 2022 The High Court sheds some light on "continuing" Events of Default under the ISDA Master Agreement By Alexander Coyne In a judgment handed down on Tuesday, Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE) [2022], the High Court shed some light on the...
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...
Jul 13, 2022 The evolution of fund finance – from the exceptional to the expected By Clare Golding Richard Fletcher From modest beginnings as overdraft facilities to the full spectrum of complex products available today, a panel of experts led by our...
Jul 04, 2022 Trending topics from the FFA European Fund Finance Symposium 2022 By Clare Golding Adam Caines The return of the in person Annual European Fund Finance Symposium to London on 28 June 2022 was marked by a sense of optimism for the...
Jun 24, 2022 Private debt roundtable part 2: Macro trends and influences By Jamie Macpherson Jamie Macpherson, senior counsel in our finance team, joined a discussion hosted by Aztec Group on the impact of the current economic...
Jun 16, 2022 Private debt roundtable part 1: LIBOR changes and transition By Jamie Macpherson Jamie Macpherson, senior counsel in our finance team, joined a discussion hosted by Aztec Group on the transition from LIBOR and its...
Mar 23, 2022 UK Prospectus Regime Reform Review Outcome: is this the path to a complete rethink? By Richard Fletcher Clare Golding The UK Prospectus Regime Review Outcome (PRRO) published by HM Treasury at the beginning of March 2022 gives us further insight into the...
Feb 11, 2022 Derivatives – UK CCP equivalence extended to 2025 By Edward Karsten William Sykes Following a statement by Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services, towards the end of last year, the European...
Feb 02, 2022 Clearing – potential one-year extension to pension schemes exemption, but further extensions unlikely By Edward Karsten William Sykes The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the European Commission (EC) recommending that the temporary...
Feb 02, 2022 FCA’s views on operational resilience: are you ready for 31 March 2022 deadline? By Joy Davey Banks, insurers and enhanced-scope SMCR firms will have to comply with the operational resiliency requirements that come into force on 31...
Jan 19, 2022 Marketing cryptoassets: HMT and the FCA weigh in By Gavin Haran On 18 January 2022, HM Treasury (HMT) published its response to its July 2020 consultation paper on cryptoasset promotions. This was...
Jan 12, 2022 UK Securitisation Regulation – FCA approves first two securitisation repositories By Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher With effect from 17 January 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has decided to register both European DataWarehouse Ltd and...