3/25/2025 8:15:33 AM Navigating the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2025 By Nicholas Lingard Samantha Tan Rohit Bhat Desmond Chong Morgane Guyonnet +2 more... Show less Singapore has cemented its place as a global leader in arbitration. A recent Global Arbitration Review report has confirmed that...
3/24/2025 8:26:55 PM New sanctions legislation targeting sanctions circumvention – what does this mean for financial institutions? By Xiao Zhang Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention...
3/24/2025 10:12:19 AM Landmark decision on enforceability of “keepwell” bond arrangements By John Choong Bing Guan Niklas Wong On 19 March 2025, the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) in Hong Kong delivered its landmark and first-ever judgment dealing with the...
3/24/2025 9:03:08 AM REARM Europe: Antitrust considerations following the White Paper on Defence By Thomas Janssens Alex Potter Andreas von Bonin Conor Leavy Remony Vials +2 more... Show less Europe finds itself at a pivotal moment, simultaneously affected by both war and an international order undergoing significant change. ...
3/21/2025 3:30:37 PM The High Court affirms the FCA’s wide discretion in exercising its powers of redress By Piers Reynolds Jack Helyar Sharon Tong At a Glance On 7 March 2025, the High Court dismissed an application for judicial review by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair...
3/20/2025 12:10:21 PM The CMA announces enforcement priorities with weeks to go before the DMCCA’s new consumer regime comes into force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Honor May +1 more... Show less With just over two weeks to go until most of the Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act 2024’s (DMCCA) consumer protection...
3/20/2025 11:52:57 AM UK Government goes full throttle on its growth agenda: New action plan targets financial services regulators By Michael Raffan Elisabeth Overland Tricia Moffat Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 17 March 2025, the UK Government published a policy paper and accompanying press release outlining a new approach to ensure regulators...
3/19/2025 8:24:57 PM The FCA’s review of private market valuation practices: what it means for firms By Emma Rachmaninov Christopher Bernard Jermaine Francis On 5 March 2025, the FCA published the findings from its multi-firm review of valuation processes for private market assets. In this blog...
3/18/2025 3:17:25 PM Exploratory talks for Germany's future government: Laying the foundation for the path forward By Alex Schmidtke After the collapse of the German government last year and snap elections on 23 February 2025, a new government now appears somewhat...
3/14/2025 5:34:55 PM THE PROCUREMENT ACT 2023 AND TAX: WHAT HEADS OF TAX AND LEGAL TEAMS NEED TO KNOW By Sarah Bond Kate Gough Edward Buxton Alice Ding +1 more... Show less The Procurement Act 2023 came into force on 24 February 2025. As with the regime the Act replaces, suppliers to the UK government risk...
3/14/2025 1:41:10 PM Recalibrating Compliance Programs Under Trump 2.0 By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Daniel Cendan Emmeline Chen +1 more... Show less Nearly two months into his second presidential term, President Trump and his Administration have engaged in a flurry of activity, issuing...
3/13/2025 12:06:32 PM FCA publicity consultation: Back to where we started? By Lucy Clark The FCA yesterday announced that it will not be pursuing much of its controversial proposed policy on publicising investigations (which...