Reforming the capital markets and regulatory framework to strengthen the UK’s position as a leading financial centre is a priority of the current government. In the last two years, ther...
In July 2023, the UK government published a revised and near-final draft statutory instrument setting out a new regulatory framework for public offers of securities and admission to tradi...
On 29 June 2023, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 received royal assent. It represents one of the most important pieces of legislation for the United Kingdom’s financial serv...
On 10 July 2023, the UK’s Digitisation Taskforce published its interim recommendations on the eradication of paper-based processes in the UK securities settlement infrastructure.
On 15 June 2023, The Insider Dealing (Securities and Regulated Markets) Order 2023 enters into force. It amends the Criminal Justice Act 1993, which sets out the UK’s criminal insider d...
In a new round of sanctions, the United States targeted third-country entities doing business with Russia, prohibited the export of architecture and engineering services to Russia, and de...
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Russia’s metal, mining, and banking sectors and signaled an in...
The European Securities and Markets Authority has recently published updated versions of its Q&As on the EU Prospectus Regulation and, in December 2022, the European Commission published ...
Davis Polk partner Zach Zweihorn served as the contributing editor for the 2023 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Financial Services Compliance, a reference guide enabling side-by-side...
