This memorandum highlights some considerations for the preparation of your 2017 annual report on Form 20-F. As in previous years, we discuss both disclosure developments as well as contin...
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Introduction
Supervisory Convergence in Financial Services
Proposals to amend the EMIR Supervisory Regime
On June 23, 2017, we passed the one year mark since the refer...
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Introduction
Cross-border models for financial services
Societas Europea and cross-border mergers
On March 29th, 2017, the UK delivered a letter from the UK Pri...
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Introduction
UK Supreme Court Judgment – the Miller Case
What will Brexit mean for benchmark administrators in the UK?
In the last few weeks, some welcome clarity has ...
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Introduction
Walking on the cliff edge
New proposals for EU intermediate holding companies
“What’s the model? Have your cake and eat it.”
These were the handwrit...
In a ruling released yesterday morning, three senior judges of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (the “High Court”) handed the UK Government a significant defeat in relat...
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Introduction
The ‘Great Repeal Bill’: the many unanswered questions
AIFMD and Brexit
As we move to a monthly schedule for the publication of Lex et Brexit, we fina...
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Introduction
French pitch for Paris to become Europe’s financial center
A regime with sticking power: the EU Market Abuse Regulation
Despite the protestations of s...
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Introduction
Run for the hills…Swiss-style Brexit
EMIR and Brexit
Despite a weekend of Brexit brainstorming by the Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s country retreat, w...
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Introduction
Brexit and anti-trust
Prospects for the Prospectus Directive
As we go to press, the UK cabinet is finally beginning the serious business of drawing up its ?...
