CorpCast Episode 1: Sections, 204, 205 and In re Numoda
The government will enact the new legislation to bring issuers of fiat-referencing stablecoins into the regulatory perimeter. On 17 July 2024, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and the Hong Kong Monetary...more
Demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) is rapidly growing across the decentralized finance (DeFi) community, with growing interest among existing crypto-native participants and across the traditional finance industry...more
FastLane now gives access to the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange for non-European sovereigns and corporate issuers whose shares are listed on an EU Regulated Market without the requirement of a prospectus...more
The expansion would include Shenzhen Stock Exchange and potentially European stock exchanges, and would permit overseas issuers to raise capital in China through CDR listings. On 17 December 2021, the China Securities...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a report on liquidity provision in the secondary markets for equity securities...more
Prospectus Regulation - ESMA publishes Final Report on prospectus disclosure guidance to replace CESR Recommendations - Background - On 15 July 2020, ESMA published its Final Report1 on guidelines for disclosure...more
There has been a lot of publicity and interest surrounding the direct listings of Spotify (2018) and Slack (2019) in the United States. In many respects, these transactions resemble the traditional "introduction" which has...more
A Q&A for Italian high yield issuers, focusing on capital markets implications and best practices. Disclosure Requirements on COVID-19 Impact for High Yield Issuers - Q: How should companies disclose the impact of the...more
The UK Government has been quick to respond to the economic shock and disruption caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 and, over the past week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Treasury and the Bank of England have announced...more
ESAs issue important guidance in relation to the application of the PRIIPs Regulation to corporate bonds. Key Points: ..The ESAs have issued their final view on whether certain features within bonds are conclusive as to...more
Below is a summary of the main developments in US and EU corporate governance and securities law and certain financial markets regulation developments since our last update in July 2019. ...more
European Leveraged Finance Client Alert Series: Issue 7 - The term "private placement", while having a relatively settled meaning in US financings, can have a variety of meanings in Europe. White & Case's European...more
New length restrictions will require issuers to focus on key information for investors. Under the Prospectus Regulation, which comes into force on 21 July 2019 (See EU Prospectus Regulation: New Format and Content...more
In March 2017, the London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”) announced a new debt multilateral trading facility (“MTF”) targeted at institutional and professional investors, the International Securities Market (the “ISM”). The ISM...more
SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Proposes To Expand “Test-the-Waters” Reforms to All Issuers - On February 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, which would permit any...more
Loans backing LBOs have driven the market in Europe this year, with volumes reaching €56.5 billion, up 37 per cent from €41.3 billion in 2017. By the middle of 2018, total loans in the US breached US$100 billion, up a third...more
In a series of votes on 29 January 2019, the parliament of the United Kingdom (the “UK”) rejected proposals aimed at preventing the UK from leaving the European Union (the “EU”) on 29 March 2019 without a Withdrawal Agreement...more
With close to EUR 10 trillion in net assets,1 UCITS are an attractive proposition for managers. The UCITS brand is globally recognised and is firmly established as a product of choice for retail investors and institutions...more
The new EU Prospectus Regulation (the “New Prospectus Regulation”), which entered into force on 20 July 2017 (although many of its provisions take effect on 21 July 2018 and 21 July 2019), aims to facilitate access to capital...more
Latham & Watkins recently advised the largest global music streaming subscription service in the world, Spotify, on its successful New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing using a novel direct listing process. Spotify’s...more
Il 20 luglio 2017, a seguito di pubblicazione in Gazzetta Ufficiale del 30 giugno 2017, è entrato in vigore il Regolamento (UE) 2017/1129 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio (il “Nuovo Regolamento Prospetti”), relativo al...more
The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published a policy statement on 26 October 2017 setting out certain amendments to the Listing Rules ("LRs") and related technical notes ("Policy Statement"). The FCA...more
During the last decade, negative interest rates have raised concerns in the European debt capital markets landscape. Prospectuses often allow the issuance of debt securities for which the interest rate is linked to indexes...more
On 20 July 2017, the new EU Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or...more
SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues New and Updated C&DIs on Omission of Financial Information from Draft Registration Statements - Since the adoption of the Fixing America’s Surface...more