12/2/2025 5:53:48 PM Autumn Budget 2025: new stamp duty reserve tax UK listing relief By Alison Dickie Samuel Withnall The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has delivered the Autumn Budget 2025. After much press speculation on what would be...
11/28/2025 1:13:03 PM Inside Infrastructure: Reflections on Freshfields’ Inside Infrastructure Forum with Alastair Campbell & Rory Stewart By Martha Davis Last week, we had the privilege of hosting an infrastructure policy roundtable at our offices in London, drawing together leaders across...
9/29/2025 11:57:10 AM UK prospectus regime reform – key changes for DCM issuers in the FCA’s final rules By Peter Allen Duncan Kellaway Stephan Pachinger Reena Parmar Laura Clark-Jones Greg Garfield Magdalen Christie +4 more... Show less On 15 July 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement PS25/9: “New rules for the public offers and admissions...
9/12/2025 12:54:55 PM UK prospectus regime reform – key changes for regulated market issuers in the FCA’s final rules By Christopher Mort Julian Makin Peter Allen Duncan Kellaway Stephan Pachinger Tom Godwin Richard Ho Reena Parmar Laura Clark-Jones Greg Garfield Egor Marisin Jennifer McCarthy +9 more... Show less On 15 July 2025, the FCA published Policy Statement PS25/9: ‘New rules for the public offers and admissions to trading regime’...
7/22/2025 7:17:03 PM UK National Security & Investment Screening: A More Business-Friendly Future? By Michele Davis Sarah Jensen Cara Carr A critical opportunity for investors and businesses to engage as enforcement levels increase Almost four years since the National...
7/15/2025 3:12:38 PM The India-UK Free Trade Agreement – key implications and takeaways By Rohit Bhat Piusha Bose Boyan Arshinkov Introduction On 6 May 2025, the UK and India signed the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA), expected to double bilateral trade and...
7/15/2025 1:59:08 PM FCA confirms new 75% threshold for further issuances By Christopher Mort Julian Makin Tom Godwin Richard Ho Katie Bentel Egor Marisin Jennifer McCarthy +4 more... Show less The FCA has today published final rules to implement the new public offers and admissions to trading regime (in PS 25/9, following its...
6/23/2025 3:21:20 PM Faster, Fairer, Focused? How the CMA Plans to Lighten the Load on Mergers By Colin Raftery Simon Priddis On 20 June, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the latest raft of changes intended to refocus UK merger control. As we...
6/23/2025 1:21:29 PM UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy By Richard Thexton Jessamy Gallagher Kirsten Singleton Quinn Angus +1 more... Show less Hot off the press The UK Government published its long awaited 10 year infrastructure plan last Thursday, 19 June. Some of the headline...
6/13/2025 9:29:29 AM PISCES Q&A – key features of the world’s first regulated crossover market By Tom Godwin Richard Ho Jennifer McCarthy The FCA has now published its final rules for prospective operators of the new PISCES platforms (Private Intermittent Securities and...
6/4/2025 1:35:21 PM Inside Infrastructure: What’s new in the UK market? By Joseph Biesterfield Jessica O'Sullivan Jessamy Gallagher Richard Thexton Alon Gordon Richard Johnson Stuart Rowson Vanessa Jakovich Ally McKechnie James Chapman Jenny McIvor Fedor Teselkin Kirsten Singleton +10 more... Show less Welcome to the first in our new series of market updates for the Energy & Infrastructure sector. We are starting with the UK and we will...
5/9/2025 2:04:46 PM Modernising UK stamp taxes on shares: finishing line (almost) in sight? By Emily Szasz Alison Dickie How long does it take to modernise an antiquated stamp taxes on shares regime dating back to 1891? Sounds like the opener for a (bad)...