Will Pearce

The UK Takeover Panel has recently confirmed a number of amendments to the UK Takeover Code in three Response Statements to its public consultations earlier this year. On 23 October 2015,...

The UK Takeover Panel has published two new Practice Statements on offer-related arrangements and the equality of information to competing offerors for the purposes of obtaining regulator...

The past year has seen the issue of financial sector pay continue to generate headlines. With the EU having put in place a complex web of overlapping law, regulation and guidance during 2...

On June 29, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published an updated opinion on the additional information that it considers will need to be included in a “...

Companies contemplating U.S. acquisitions or with existing U.S. investments should be aware of two recent regulatory developments involving notifications to U.S. authorities. The Federal ...

The UK Takeover Panel has confirmed a number of changes to the UK takeover regime in a series of Panel Statements released in late December and early January. On 23 December 2014, the Pan...

The CRD IV package, comprising the Capital Requirements Directive IV[1] (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation[2] (CRR), sets out requirements in relation to the remuneration po...

On 14 November 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published a response statement (RS 2014/1) to its July consultation on miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code (PCP 2014/1).  The consultatio...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has issued a new consultation paper (CP 14/21) on sponsor competence. The consultation paper provides feedback and final rule changes in...

Two key publications have recently been issued which are relevant to UK listed companies in terms of their corporate governance policies on remuneration and risk management. The first is ...