14 Nov, 2024 English High Court decision indicates EU-wide product approvals do little to prevent product liability claims for damages By James Roberts Simon Duncombe Sanjana Canumalla James Smith Georgina Bayly +2 more... Show less Background On 14 November 2024, the High Court handed down judgment in the first substantive trial to take place in the industry-wide NOx...
14 Nov, 2024 How to meet the UK sustainable investment labelling disclosure requirements: The FCA provides much needed guidance to applicants By Elisabeth Overland Douglas Bryden Anthea Bowater Emma Rachmaninov Emily Strand +2 more... Show less In a move likely to be welcomed by the market, the FCA has updated its webpage on the Sustainability Disclosure and Labelling Regime to...
13 Nov, 2024 FCA reviews implementation of Consumer Duty in payments firms By Anthea Bowater Olivia Archibald Last month, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its key findings from a review of 23 payments firms’ implementation of the...
12 Nov, 2024 German parliament adopts new exit tax for private fund investors By Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Prof. Dr. Norbert Schneider Dr. Sebastian Röger Franziska Leich +1 more... Show less German tax resident investors holding fund units as private assets must prepare for the introduction of a supplementary exit taxation....
08 Nov, 2024 UK Banking Litigation Update By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Anthea Bowater Miryam Farrelly Sarah Robinson Julia Schulman Rebecca Freedman +4 more... Show less So far this year we’ve seen a range of important cases and developments before the Courts in the UK affecting financial institutions. In...
07 Nov, 2024 Time is ticking for the Failure to Prevent Fraud offence coming into force By Matthew Bruce Ben Morgan Ali Sallaway Emily Knight Laura Feldman Caroline Doherty de Novoa +3 more... Show less On 6 November 2024, the UK Government published final guidance on what constitute reasonable prevention procedures (the “Guidance”), on...
06 Nov, 2024 Navigating the New Global Order: Legal Dynamics in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Across the CEE Region in 2024-2025 By Florian Klimscha Stephan Pachinger Anouschka Zagorski Simon Fitzpatrick Eva Schneider +2 more... Show less The financial services and capital markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) continue to evolve within a dynamic regulatory and...
05 Nov, 2024 PFAS ban – will the universal restriction see the light of day? By Michael Ramb Sascha Arnold Moritz Becker Nathalie Colin Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Simon Duncombe Katharina Shingler +4 more... Show less The EU’s proposed PFAS ban Since five EU Member States submitted a proposal to restrict the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...
31 Oct, 2024 Autumn Budget 2024: delivering difficult decisions By Alison Dickie Laura Western In the first Budget delivered by the Labour Party since 2010 (and the first given by a female Chancellor since the role came into...
31 Oct, 2024 UK shareholder claims: no market reliance as English High Court strikes out passive investors’ claims By Emma Probyn Flavia Williams Tobias Messervy-Whiting On 25 October 2024, the High Court handed down its judgment in Allianz Funds Multi-Strategy Trust & Ors v Barclays Plc, finding in favour...
31 Oct, 2024 Autumn Budget 2024 - what are the key points from a People & Reward perspective? By Dawn Heath David Mendel Jane Wolstenholme Anika Prasad +1 more... Show less Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled this year’s Autumn Budget. Announcing a package of reforms aiming to...
31 Oct, 2024 Penny for your thoughts? A US and UK take on incentivising financial crime reporting By Ben Morgan Eric Bruce Justin Simeone Alice Brindle +1 more... Show less On both sides of the Atlantic, law enforcement agencies are showing increasing interest in using incentivisation as a means to detect...