24 Apr, 2024 UK National Security and Investment Act Update: what’s new on the horizon for restructuring & insolvency By David Bor Katharina Crinson Ken Baird The UK National Security and Investment Act came into force on 4 January 2022, significantly extending the UK Government’s power to...
23 Apr, 2024 Updating the UK national security and investment regime By Alastair Mordaunt Sarah Jensen Iona Crawford Reforms to “fine tune” the system – with more opportunities ahead for stakeholders to help make the regime as pro-business as possible A...
22 Apr, 2024 Four key takeaways for restructuring and insolvency practitioners from the UKJT Legal Statement on Digital Assets and English Insolvency Law By Nicholas Cooper Rob Gray Katharina Crinson On 17 April 2024 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (the UKJT), chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, published its Legal Statement on Digital Assets...
11 Apr, 2024 Multi process restructurings By Jamie Murray-Jones Lindsay Hingston Katharina Crinson Prompted by the EU Restructuring Directive and accelerated by the pandemic, jurisdictions all across Europe have completely transformed...
08 Apr, 2024 Setback for the European Commission’s power to review non-notifiable transactions By Paul van den Berg Merit Olthoff Gian Luca Zampa Rikki Haria Tuna Tanik Jan Jeram Riccardo Fadiga +4 more... Show less On 21 March 2024, Advocate General (AG) Nicholas Emiliou recommended setting aside the General Court (GC) judgment in Illumina/Grail,...
02 Apr, 2024 The continued development of contentious restructurings as litigation By Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson Frank Clarke Harry White Xuan Boh +2 more... Show less Following a series of important decisions in England and across Europe, it is now beyond doubt that court-based restructuring processes...
28 Mar, 2024 International secondary listing category By Tom Godwin Richard Ho Jennifer McCarthy The FCA’s upcoming reform of the listing regime will consign to history the familiar premium and standard segments. Companies aiming for...
21 Mar, 2024 Freshfields Restructuring Expert leads the successful Dutch WHOA proceedings of McDermott By Michael Broeders Lindsay Hingston Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Huub Boekhorst +1 more... Show less Amsterdam based Freshfields partner, Michael Broeders, was appointed on 10 October 2023[1] by the Amsterdam Court as Restructuring...
21 Mar, 2024 Italian below-thresholds merger review: taking stock of the first transactions “called-in” – it’s getting crowded there By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Ignazio Pinzuti Ansolini +2 more... Show less Approximately one year and a half has elapsed since the introduction of the power by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) to “call-in”...
18 Mar, 2024 The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) By James Smethurst Tom Godwin Richard Ho Regina Erie Christopher Bernard Jennifer McCarthy +3 more... Show less This blog considers the recent HM Treasury (HMT) consultation on the proposed trial of a new ‘Private Intermittent Securities and Capital...
12 Mar, 2024 Sale and leaseback of data centres: reality or wishful thinking? By Ana Julia Garcia There is a distinction between corporations continuing to rely on their own data centres (DCs) and those choosing to move to the cloud....
08 Mar, 2024 Link Fund Solutions – Appeal of decision sanctioning scheme of arrangement By Frank Clarke Craig Montgomery Katharina Crinson On 5 March 2024, Link Fund Solutions Limited’s scheme of arrangement took effect following the High Court’s decision on 9 February 2024...