The new reforms to the UK listing regime (Listing Rules) published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) came into force on Monday 29 July 2024, marking the most significant change to the UK’s listing regime in 40 years as...more
7/30/2024
/ Capital Markets ,
Controlling Stockholders ,
Dual Class Share Structures ,
Equity ,
EU ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investment Funds ,
Listing Rules ,
London Stock Exchange ,
Shell Corporations ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its long-awaited reforms to the UK’s listing regime (Listing Rules), designed to reinvigorate UK capital markets and make the listing regime more internationally...more
Over recent years, a prolonged period of low interest rates, together with a competitive financing market, has resulted in greater leverage and control for private companies (and their sponsors) when it comes to negotiating...more
A draft of “The Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2021” (the “Regulations”) was released by the U.K. government on October 28, 2021, which requires climate-related financial...more
On November 15, 2021, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) moved to progress the British government’s aim of making the U.K. the world’s “first net zero-aligned financial centre” by publishing Primary Market Bulletin...more
COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, has spread rapidly throughout the globe since it first emerged in China at the end of 2019. As governments, businesses and individuals all take measures to protect against the...more
3/10/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Condition Precedent ,
Contract Disputes ,
Contract Termination ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Material Adverse Change Clauses (MACs) ,
Mergers ,
Public Health ,
Representations and Warranties ,
Risk Mitigation
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- U.K. corporates required to identify and record identities (including home addresses) of 25%+ holders of economics/votes/control (“PSCs”) – exclusion for most U.K. listed issuers.
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