Jun 24, 2022 Falling back to Earth: UK’s proposed approach to managing the failure of systemic crypto firms By Richard Layther Claire Harrop Emma Gateaud Cryptoassets continue to be in the spotlight with prices no longer heading ‘to the moon’, the recent high-profile failure of an...
Jun 22, 2022 Options for Russian operations of Japanese companies By Jochen Ellrott Igor Gerber Many Japanese companies have suspended or reduced Russian operations for now or are considering doing so given the current geo-political...
Jun 20, 2022 The UK’s national security and investment regime – insights and experience so far By Megan Yeates Sarah Jensen Michele Davis Thomas McGrath +1 more... Show less The UK’s Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published its first report on the new national...
Jun 17, 2022 Will the weak yen stoke up inbound M&A activity into Japan? By Jochen Ellrott In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Nomura’s chief executive Kentaro Okuda expressed his expectation that the weakening of...
Jun 15, 2022 Audit and corporate governance in the context of corporate failures: UK Government responds to consultation on dividends and capital maintenance By Katharina Crinson Rachel Seeley Richard Tett Victoria Sharp +1 more... Show less On 18 March 2021, the UK Government published its white paper on restoring trust in audit and corporate governance. On 31 May 2022, the...
Jun 15, 2022 How does ESG impact M&A? By Jochen Ellrott ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) is driving businesses globally to re-think, re-calibrate and sometimes even re-invent their...
Jun 13, 2022 Belgium to introduce foreign direct investment regime By Marie de Crane d'Heysselaer Tone Oeyen Frédéric Elens What are the implications for deal planning? On 1 June 2022, the various federal and regional governments of Belgium agreed on a draft...
Jun 13, 2022 General Court confirms Commission’s fine on Canon for gun-jumping By Jan Jeram Sascha Schubert Thomas Wessely Thomas Lübbig Alastair Chapman +2 more... Show less On 18 May 2022, the General Court of the EU dismissed Canon’s appeal against the Commission’s 2019 decision that fined Canon €28m for...
Jun 10, 2022 Double tax treaties: the French supreme court rules that beneficial ownership can be used affirmatively by taxpayers and the French tax authorities By Cyril Valentin Juliette Brasart Tazio Jaegle In this blog, we examine the recent, and helpful, Planet case (20 May 2022, #444451, Société Planet; concl. C. Guibé), in which the...
Jun 09, 2022 Does the proposed UK corporate re-domiciliation regime measure up? By Alison Dickie The UK government is planning to introduce a UK corporate re-domiciliation regime that would allow a non-UK incorporated company to...
Jun 01, 2022 Proposed single listing segment in London – reform or re-branding? By Tom Godwin Mark Austin A single listing segment: reform or re-branding? On 26 May, the FCA published a discussion paper seeking views on replacing the current...