by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-14 | Events
Today, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Westminster Abbey, London to lie in state. At Cleveland & Co, we pay tribute to The Queen for her more than 70 years as monarch. The Queen epitomised the values of integrity, consistency and resilience, having...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-13 | Awards
We are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted at the upcoming Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards 2022, in the category of Business of Law: Challenging Traditional Models. This category shortlisting reflects the innovative nature of Cleveland &...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-07 | Our Thinking
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”), Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services, and consumer credit regulator, has released its Corporate Plan 2022-26 with a focus on the period of 2022-23 (“Corporate Plan 2022-26”). The Corporate...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-06 | Our Thinking
overview On 1 August 2022, the FCA published a Consultation Paper 22/14 (‘‘CP22/14’’) on broadening retail access to the Long-Term Asset Fund (“LTAF”). The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in CP22/14 proposes among others to broaden the distribution of the LTAF to...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-02 | Our News
Our Q&As with our amazing trainee cohort continues and today, we are delighted to introduce you to Zara Todd who joined us initially as a paralegal and then was accepted on our trainee programme. We sat down with Zara to ask her a few questions about trainee life...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-09-01 | Our Thinking
overview On 11 July 2022, the Australian Securities Investments Commission (‘‘ASIC’’) published the ‘January-June 2022 consolidated regulatory document updated tables’, illustrating the changes made to the Regulatory Guides (“RGs”) from January 2022 to June 2022. The...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-08-31 | Our Thinking
On 28 June 2022, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) published its recommendations to the Secretary of State on whether the two EU Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations retained from EU law (“HBERs”), should be renewed or varied after 31 December 2022. This...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-08-25 | Our Thinking
summary On 27 July 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a Policy Statement 22/9 (‘‘PS22/9’’), and provided feedback to its December Consultation Paper 21/36 (‘‘CP21/36’’), setting out the final updated rules on the new Consumer Duty (the “Duty”)...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-08-17 | Our News
As part of our ‘Meet the Team’ series, over the next few weeks we will be featuring Q&As with our amazing trainee cohort. Today, we are delighted to introduce you to Rebecca Solomon who joined us initially as a paralegal and then was accepted on our...
by Victoria Smith | 2022-08-17 | Our Thinking, Templates & Guidance
The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has confirmed new rules to improve oversight of Appointed Representatives (“AR”), which will take effect on 8 December 2022 (“New Rules”). The AR regime is set in primary legislation and allows unauthorised firms to engage in...
