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Looking ahead - the DCM year to come In this briefing we discuss what is on the horizon for debt issuers over the coming year and how best to navigate upcoming MTN programme updates and bond issuances. It is a time of change for debt capital markets participants - the UK has left the ...

EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - February 2020 Developments covered in this month’s edition include: Supervised entities as of 1 December 2019 - ECB publishes updated list of supervised entities Dividend distribution policies and variable remuneration policies under Single Supervisory...

Fiscal State Aid: is there Method in the Madness? Lead article by William Watson on whether it is possible to discern a thread of rationality at the heart of fiscal State aid. Previous introductory chapters, “Fiscal State Aid: the Kraken Wakes” and Fiscal State Aid: Some limits Emerging at Last?”), have ...

The US's reaction to France's DST In her recent post, Zoe Andrews suggested that, given the importance for the UK of securing a post-Brexit trade agreement with the US, now might not be the best time for the UK to introduce a digital services tax.

Incentives Bulletin Investment Association Principles of Remuneration; shareholder dissent in the 2018 AGM season; EU Prospectus rules; Government guidance to help employers close the gender pay gap Topics covered in this bulletin: IVIS approach to new Investment Associatio...

Tax and the City Review for June 2019 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider the decisions in Warshaw and Hancock. They also look at the lack of progress made on the UK’s long-term future relationship with the EU as regards financial services. The FTT’s decision in Warshaw show...

Getting the Deal Through - Debt Capital Markets (United Kingdom) 2019 UK and EU legal and regulatory framework of the debt capital markets, and factors which influence the the market, including the documentation and execution of transactions. The UK has very active debt capital markets known for their internationalism, soph...

Hague Judgments Convention: UK joins new regime to simplify cross-border enforcements of judgments The UK has ratified the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention. When it comes into force for the UK next July, it will make it significantly easier to enforce a wide range of English court judgments in 28 countries – including all bar one of the EU’s member stat...

Scaling through integration? Proposals on integrating greenhouse gas removals in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme The day after former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak requested permission from the King to dissolve parliament and called a UK general election, the UK Emissions Trading System (“UK ETS”) Authority launched a consultation on proposals to integrate greenhous...

Fiscal State aid - some limits emerging at last? Article by William Watson on the threat from State aid to well-established tax practices and principles, but also on the signs of real resistance. In my introductory chapter last year (“Fiscal State aid: the Kraken Wakes?”), I wrote about a slumbering mon...