by Leela | 2020-10-01 | Industry News
The new Investment Firms Prudential Regime will affect a significant number of investments firms in the United Kingdom requiring changes to key areas of their business. Want to understand the key points of the IFPR and how you should be preparing for its...
by Leela | 2020-09-28 | Industry News
In Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd [2020] UKSC 36, the Supreme Court held that a restrictive covenant given by a landlord of a shopping centre to an anchor tenant did not engage the common law doctrine of restraint of trade. The...
by Leela | 2020-09-25 | Industry News
On August 18, 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a letter (the ‘Letter”) addressed to the European Commission (“EC”) on its recommendation for the upcoming review of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”). Many...
by Leela | 2020-08-28 | Industry News
In CFH Clearing Limited v. Merrill Lynch International [2019] EWHC 963 (Comm), the High Court has dealt with the issue of whether or not a bank was obliged to reprice or cancel foreign exchange spot trades entered into at a time of severe market disruption, in...
by Leela | 2020-08-25 | Industry News
SUMMARY The recent shift from office base time to working from home and enforced social distancing measures in the current coronavirus pandemic (“Covid-19”) has raised a number of issues for signing and executing key documents, particularly when a witness is required...
by Leela | 2020-08-20 | Industry News
In Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja [2020] UKSC 31, the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal and fundamentally restricted what has to-date been referred to as the principle against the recovery of reflective loss, effectively overturning a string of previous Court of...
