by Leela | 2019-12-09 | Industry News
This case is yet another ruling of English courts on competing clauses, and reaffirms the importance of the jurisdiction choices made through standard documentation in financial and derivatives documentation. In October 2008, Trattamento Rifiuti Metropoliani SpA...
by Leela | 2019-12-03 | Industry News
SUMMARY The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) was established by the Financial Stability Board in December 2015 to develop a set of voluntary and consistent climate-related disclosure recommendations for use by organisations to provide...
by Leela | 2019-12-02 | Industry News
In reference to the case Harlequin Property (SVG) Ltd, (the Plaintiffs) vs O’Halloran (the “Defendant”) [2019] IESC 76, on 1 November 2019, the Supreme Court affirmed the High Court’s finding of fraudulent misrepresentation against the Defendant and dismissed his...
by Leela | 2019-11-28 | Industry News
On 18 November 2019, the UK Investment Association (the “IA”), a trade body representing investment and asset management firms in the UK, launched a final report (the “Report”) on the first industry-agreed responsible investment framework with the goal of bringing...
by Leela | 2019-11-19 | Industry News
SUMMARY On 15 November 2019, the first judgement on a shareholder class action in England and Wales was delivered, dismissing a claim brought by a group of Lloyds shareholders against Lloyds TSB plc (“Lloyds”) and five of its former directors relating to an...
