UK Financial Insights from Katten is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds in the UK and Europe....more
Further to the publication of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, we are now beginning to see many of the measures that relate to Companies House beginning to bite....more
On May 3, 2023, by a 3-2 vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to disclosure rules (the “new buyback disclosure rules”) relating to repurchases of equity securities by issuers (or repurchases...more
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- A court in London has ruled that the London branch of a German bank, which had issued confirmations of letters of credit issued by a Russian bank as security provided by Russian airlines for leases of...more
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- Insurance companies are bracing themselves for years of legal disputes over liability for total losses claimed by lessors to aircraft stranded in Russia as a result of sanctions over Russia's invasion of...more
1/3/2023
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Transportation Industry
On December 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously adopted amendments to Rule 10b5-1 and related regulations governing "10b5-1 Plans." 10b5-1 Plans enable (1) public company insiders to sell their...more
12/28/2022
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Final Rules ,
Insider Trading ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Rule 10b-5 ,
Securities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Litigation ,
Securities Violations ,
Stock Repurchases
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- The US Department of Justice reported that it obtained a warrant for the seizure of a Boeing 737-7EM aircraft for the alleged violation of US export controls on Russia (rather than because of ownership of...more
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- Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) has announced that it is seeking to implement a restructuring of its aircraft lease obligations and other liabilities by court action in the UK and Hong Kong.
- The plan...more
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- The rights of an aircraft lessor or lender financing the conversion of a passenger aircraft to a freighter aircraft will be specified in agreements between the borrower, financer and conversion facility....more
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- In an August 2 press release, the US Commerce Department updated its list of aircraft that have flown into Russia or Belarus in apparent violation of Export Administration Regulations by adding the first 25...more
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- The use by Malaysia Airlines' subsidiary, MAB Leasing Ltd. (incorporated in Malaysia) ("MABL"), in 2021, of an English Scheme of Arrangement (a "Scheme") to compromise its aircraft lease obligations proved...more
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- In an April 7 press release, the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced orders suspending the export privileges of three Russian airlines — Aeroflot, Azur Air, and UTair...more
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- In a March 30 press release, the US Commerce Department updated its March 18 list of aircraft that have flown into Russia in apparent violation of Export Administration Regulations by adding 73 aircraft and...more
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- A recent Commerce Department Press Release clarifies that the Department's restrictions on aviation exports to Russia issued in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine apply to whole aircraft, and not just to as...more