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 15 February 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published a consultation paper on its proposed amendments to the Takeover Code relating to the communication and distribution of information dur...
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 ...
The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in three Response Statements to its public consultations earlier this year.
On 23 October 2015,...
The UK Takeover Panel has published two new Practice Statements on offer-related arrangements and the equality of information to competing offerors for the purposes of obtaining regulator...
The past year has seen the issue of financial sector pay continue to generate headlines. With the EU having put in place a complex web of overlapping law, regulation and guidance during 2...
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 CRD IV package, comprising the Capital Requirements Directive IV[1] (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation[2] (CRR), sets out requirements in relation to the remuneration po...
On 14 November 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published a response statement (RS 2014/1) to its July consultation on miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code (PCP 2014/1). The consultatio...
