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By 10 March 2023, it had become clear that Silicon Valley Bank’s UK subsidiary (SVB UK) was unable to continue to operate as a viable standalone bank following the collapse of its US parent. The Bank ...
Author(s): Michael Raffan, Elisabeth Overland, Greg King
On 8 March 2023, while the world was celebrating International Women’s Day, Tan Jian, China’s ambassador to the Netherlands, deposited China’s instrument of accession to the Convention of 5 October 19...
Author(s): Yuxin Shen, Tracy Gu
At the end of February 2023, the High Court sanctioned seven restructuring plans for companies in the Lifeways group. Lifeways is a group providing supported living and specialist residential, support...
Author(s): Katharina Crinson, Lindsay Hingston, Rachel Seeley
When forming a joint venture or a consortium (JV), each party is likely to have a specific view about whether or not they wish to consolidate the JV group’s financial results with their own. In some ...
Author(s): Richard Thexton, Patrick Ko, Alon Gordon, Richard Johnson
Over the past few weeks we have been speaking to clients on some of the key trends and developments for UK listed companies in the 2023 AGM season. In this blog we summarise some of the key areas of f...
Author(s): Annie Whiteside, Olivia Mackay, Vanessa Jakovich, Alice Greenwell, Rós Ní Dhubháin
On January 25, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published proposed Rule 192 pursuant to Section 27B of the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act). Section 27B, as introduced by ...
Author(s): Brian Rance, Andrew Heathcote, Joana Fragata, Francesca Loreto
How active have Germany’s 90 largest listed companies been in the global M&A market in recent years? Our latest survey of the last decade of acquisitions and investments found that the 40 DAX and 50 M...
Author(s): Lars Meyer, Philipp Pütz
Yesterday the European Commission put out for consultation a draft Implementing Regulation on proceedings pursuant to the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). Businesses and other interested parties ha...
Author(s): Merit Olthoff, Paul van den Berg, Sarah Erne, Joanna Goyder, Malte Symann, Christopher Sickinger