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On 29 July 2022, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange published its consultation conclusions on the proposed amendments to the Listing Rules relating to Share Schemes of listed issuers. The Rule amendments ...
Following our previous article on January’s judgment of the UK High Court (available here), the Court of Appeal has upheld the first instance ruling, confirming that the limitation period to bring a ...
In co-operation with the Institute for Law and Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Center for Financial Studies, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer we held our 3rd Digital ...
Listed Company Academy: Hot Topics The slides and video recording of the session are available here: Slides for Listed Company Academy: Hot Topics – 29 June 2022 Video recording of the session In ...
Introduction Recent global circumstances have led to record oil and gas prices, putting pressure on governments around the world to take action to help households deal with rising costs. One option ...
Lorand Bartels, Francesca Triggs and Fabian Bickel Introduction In February 2022 the High Court ruled on the decision of the Secretary of State for International Trade (the Trade Minister) to remove ...
ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) is driving businesses globally to re-think, re-calibrate and sometimes even re-invent their business models. In many cases, the results of these thought ...
The basic position on withholding taxes in facility agreements based on the Loan Market Association’s standard documentation is quite simple. A borrower only withholds taxes on interest payments made...
Key changes to competition and merger enforcement The UK Government’s extensive reforms to the competition and consumer law regimes follow a lengthy period of debate and consultation on the changes ...
The legislative process around the establishment of an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is moving to the next stage. After the European Commission released its initial proposal on a CBAM ...
Listed Company Academy: Activism The slides and video recording of the session are available here: Slides for Listed Company Academy: Activism – 30 March 2022 Video recording of the session In this ...
The Upper Tribunal recently considered key points of principle relating to the interpretation of the UK’s VAT grouping rules in HSBC Electronic Data Processing (Guangdong) Ltd & others v HMRC. In ...
In co-operation with the Institute for Law and Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Center for Financial Studies, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer invites you to join our 3rd ...
On 21 December 2021, the European Parliament’s rapporteur from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Mohammed Chahim, published his draft report on the proposal for ...
According to Commission President von der Leyen, “[t]he European Chips Act will be a game changer for the global competitiveness of Europe's single market.” On 8 February 2022, the Commission ...
By Sarah Parkes and Emma Probyn. This article first appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of PLC Magazine. A number of key decisions from the English courts in 2021 illustrate the litigation ...
By Tom Clark and Sharon Grennan. This article was first published on 24 January 2022 by Thomson Reuters Accelus Regulatory Intelligence. The sum of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory ...
Il 9 dicembre 2021 è stata pubblicata in Gazzetta Ufficiale la legge di riforma del processo civile. Si tratta della legge n. 206 del 26 Novembre 2021 (recante “Delega al Governo per l’efficienza ...
On 26 November 2021, the Italian Parliament passed a new bill (Law No. 206/2021) delegating the Government to adopt one or more decrees to reform the civil justice system. The bill sets out the ...
The UK government recently published a consultation seeking views on the introduction of a new UK corporate re-domiciliation regime. While the proposals primarily require changes to the UK corporate ...