Will Pearce

The UK Takeover Panel is consulting on a new framework for the regulation of statements made by the parties to an offer relating to a particular course of action that they commit to or in...

The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued over the course of the past year, rendering the web of overlappi...

Two sets of important guidelines have recently been issued which are relevant to UK listed companies seeking to raise new capital or contemplating other types of corporate finance transac...

The UK Takeover Panel recently published its Annual Report for 2013/14.  The Director General of the Panel noted that activity in 2013 was “subdued”, and that the level of public take...

Significant new rules to strengthen the UK premium listing regime come into force today. The rules have been the subject of two rounds of consultation by the UK Financial Conduct Authorit...

On 30 January, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued a consultation paper (CP 14/2) on sponsor competence. Sponsors play a fundamental role in the FCA’s premium list...

The recently published December/January 2014 edition of International Financial Law Review (IFLR) magazine included the results of a poll of in-house legal counsel at some of Europe’s t...

On November 5, 2013, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published near final rules and a further round of consultation on enhancing the effectiveness of the UK Listing Reg...

Regulators have recently clarified two important aspects of the prospectus regime that applies across the European Economic Area pursuant to the Prospectus Directive (Directive 2003/71/EC...

The way in which the UK financial services industry is regulated underwent a significant restructuring in 2013 with the adoption of a ‘twin peaks’ system of regulation and supervision.