A number of changes to the Prospectus Directive regime regarding the approval and publication of prospectuses and dissemination of advertisements and also amending the Prospectus Regulati...
As part of the UK Government’s drive to improve business transparency, from 6 April 2016 onwards, a new Part 21A of the UK Companies Act 2006 will require UK incorporated companies (tha...
On November 30, 2015, as part of its Capital Markets Union action plan to lower barriers to accessing capital markets across the European Union, the European Commission published a propos...
This edition of our European Regulatory Snapshot looks at the key aspects of Consultation Paper 15/35 issued by the FCA on 5 November 2015, in conjunction with ESMA’s guidance released ...
On June 29, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published an updated opinion on the additional information that it considers will need to be included in a “...
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has issued a new consultation paper (CP 14/21) on sponsor competence. The consultation paper provides feedback and final rule changes in...
Two sets of important guidelines have recently been issued which are relevant to UK listed companies seeking to raise new capital or contemplating other types of corporate finance transac...
Significant new rules to strengthen the UK premium listing regime come into force today. The rules have been the subject of two rounds of consultation by the UK Financial Conduct Authorit...
On 30 January, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued a consultation paper (CP 14/2) on sponsor competence. Sponsors play a fundamental role in the FCA’s premium list...
The recently published December/January 2014 edition of International Financial Law Review (IFLR) magazine included the results of a poll of in-house legal counsel at some of Europe’s t...
