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New PRA process for insurance own funds permissions The eligibility, issuance and repayment, redemption or repurchase of own funds instruments of or by UK insurance groups will, as of 31 December 2024, be governed by a new regulatory regime. As part of the transposition of the corpus of EU financial...
BLOG: Partial enquiry notices – thumbs up or thumbs down? Mind the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves” is something my grandmother often said to me in days when pocket money was still dished out in shiny coins!  It seems HMRC has taken heed of this advice, too, in its pursuit of the large...
BLOG: The Sustainability ‘Omnibus’ - what is it, and what does it mean for companies? The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen created a bit of a stir recently at an informal meeting of heads of state in Budapest, by mentioning the idea of introducing an ‘omnibus’ instrument to cut sustainability-related red tape. ...
Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: CMA CEO says that CMA is “rising to the challenge on growth” Just over a month on from the launch of the new UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper on 14 October 2024, the Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Sarah Cardell, has set out how the CMA is rising to the challenge of...
Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide – Litigation 2025 – England & Wales: Law and Practice The 2025 Litigation Global Practice Guide provides the latest legal information on litigation funding, initiating a lawsuit, pre-trial proceedings, discovery, injunctive relief, trials and hearings, settlement, damages and judgment, appeals, costs, and...
Demergers: Unlocking value
A new chapter in the unallowable purpose tale: The FTT's decision in Syngenta In Syngenta, the First-tier Tribunal denied interest deductions on a loan created in an intra-group reorganisation under the unallowable purpose rule in CTA 2009 s 441. This case highlights that commercial purposes need to be clearly articulated and that...
Companies can claim privilege against their shareholders In a landmark judgment, the Commercial Court has decided that a company’s shareholders have no freestanding entitlement to see the company’s privileged documents. The decision, which revisits what many considered a long-established rule of English law,...
More risk, more reward: Financial regulators publish consultation paper on bank remuneration reform Following the global financial crisis, the UK implemented a highly structured regulatory regime for bank remuneration in line with the EU’s approach under the Capital Requirement Directives. In some respects, this regime went further than the rules in...
Employment Bulletin - November 2024 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment Rights Bill; general workforce consultation on individual redundancy dismissal; pre-termination negotiations inadmissible in unfair dismissal claim; new offence of failure to prevent fraud
The interesting link between office occupancy and employment policy In this Horizon Scanning episode, Jane Edwarde and Phil Linnard are joined by Lee Elliott, Global Head of Occupier Research at Knight Frank.   They discuss the evolving relationship between office occupation and employment policy, particularly in the...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 28 November 2024
The IP Brief - November 2024 Welcome to The IP Brief – a quarterly update of key IP cases and news, with a primarily UK and EU focus.
EU Listing Act - Key changes for Debt Capital Markets On 14 November 2024, a package of reforms known as the EU Listing Act (the “EU Listing Act”) was published in the EU Official Journal. The EU Listing Act is aimed at making the EU public capital markets more attractive for EU companies and at encouraging...
Improving access to EU Capital Markets: Changes to the EU prospectus and market abuse regimes Following the recent publication in the EU Official Journal of a package of legislation known collectively as the EU Listing Act, we now have a clearer picture of how and when the EU prospectus regime, market abuse regime and certain other EU capital...