31 Jul, 2023 SEC adopts new cybersecurity disclosure rules (including for FPIs) By Ethan Magid Doug Smith Virginia Flower For those foreign private issuers out there struggling to keep up with the SEC’s recent spate of rulemaking – we don’t blame you. In...
24 Jul, 2023 High Court uses its cross-class cram down power to sanction Fitness First Restructuring Plan By Katharina Crinson Ken Baird Laila Pourdad On 29 June 2023, Mr Justice Michael Green in the High Court sanctioned a Part 26A restructuring plan proposed by First Clubs Limited...
20 Jul, 2023 What you need to know now about the impact of the OECD's global minimum tax on M&A transactions By Peter Clements Bob van Kasteren Katharina Kubik Joe Soltis Alison Dickie +2 more... Show less Following international agreement on the key components of the OECD’s Pillar 2 proposal to introduce a global minimum tax, attention has...
17 Jul, 2023 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms must respect fundamental freedoms: A Case built on Clay, Sand (and Gravel) By Thomas Lübbig Uwe Salaschek Matthias Wahls Weak cases sometimes make good law. On 13 July, the ECJ in Case C-106/22 held that: Except in specific circumstances, the EU FDI...
13 Jul, 2023 Prezzo – Restructuring plan sanctioned and HMRC crammed down in a departure from GAS and Nasmyth By Alice Gossop Katharina Crinson Ken Baird On 5 July 2023, the High Court sanctioned the restructuring plan proposed by Prezzo Investco Limited (the Company) despite opposition...
12 Jul, 2023 The UK Government publishes its first full year statistics on the national security and investment regime – key insights for investors By Sarah Jensen Michele Davis Alastair Mordaunt On 11 July 2023, the UK Government published its second annual report on the UK’s national security and investment screening regime but...
12 Jul, 2023 EU’s foreign subsidies regime officially kicks off – a new chapter for M&A and public procurement in the EU By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Martin McElwee Paul van den Berg Vanessa van Weelden Aytaç Çelebi Joanna Goyder +4 more... Show less On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (Commission) published the much-awaited final version of the Implementing Regulation on...
11 Jul, 2023 UK Model Law consultation: full steam ahead for Enterprise Groups, time to reflect on Gibbs for Foreign Judgments Model Law By Katharina Crinson Catherine Balmond Craig Montgomery On 10 July 2023 the UK government announced the outcome to its consultation on whether (and how) to implement two “model laws” adopted by...
11 Jul, 2023 The Chancellor’s Mansion House Speech: New Measures for UK Capital Markets By Richard Ho Jennifer McCarthy Christopher Mort Tom Godwin +1 more... Show less Background On 10 July 2023, the Chancellor delivered his first Mansion House speech in which he outlined plans to: unlock £75 billion of...
06 Jul, 2023 German Real Estate Transfer Tax and Investment Funds By Martin Schiessl Dr. Sebastian Röger Discussion Draft for a German RETT Reform: contractual investment funds, their managers and fund investors need to watch out Discussion...
06 Jul, 2023 FDI - New Royal Decree developing the Spanish FDI regime By José Armando Albarrán David Franco Alfonso Marcos Miriam Pérez-Schafer Ignacio Borrego Ana Calvo +3 more... Show less New Spanish FDI developing regulation Through Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of 17 March 2020, the Spanish Government amended Article 7 bis of...
04 Jul, 2023 Another successful Dutch Scheme: a milestone in the complex and multi-jurisdictional Steinhoff restructuring By Charlotte Ausema In yet another major restructuring in the Netherlands, the Dutch Court confirmed a restructuring plan under the Dutch Act on Court...