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The UK tax authority, HMRC, recently published draft legislation that aims to ensure that the sunset provisions in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 do not inadvertently reintroduce...
Author(s): Paul Davison, Alison Dickie
Lexology Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control – 2024 edition now out The latest edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control is now available. This guide, on which Freshfields has ...
Author(s): Thomas Janssens
Green hydrogen is mooted to play a key role in supporting net zero ambitions by helping to decarbonise those “hard to abate” sectors where direct electrification is challenging, such as industry, ship...
Author(s): Alon Gordon, Sorcha Horrocks-Burns, James Chapman
As from 1 September 2023 new and updated reporting obligations of foreign investments in Spain and of Spanish investments abroad will come into force. The new Royal Decree 571/2023 (RD) brings about s...
Author(s): Ana Julia Garcia, Jaime Sémelas, Silvia Angos
A new regulated activity Following on from our previous blog post, The Future of Prospectuses in the UK, the FCA has recently published its Engagement Paper 5 on a new Public Offer Platform regime (P...
Author(s): Chris Ranson, Claire Harrop, Richard Ho, Christopher Bernard, Jennifer McCarthy
The past eighteen months have seen a steady increase in sellers accepting consideration other than cash in private M&A transactions. Equity issued by private companies raises questions around the leve...
Author(s): Gaia Pattyn
It has been a year to the day since Companies House launched the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) pursuant to the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (the Act). The Act was intro...
Author(s): Ryan Thorne, Lydia Kent-Smith, Victoria Hills, Lizzy Matthams
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 their latest new rule adopted on 26 July 2023, the SEC will requir...
Author(s): Ethan Magid, Doug Smith, Virginia Flower