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In Lombard North Central Plc v European Skyjets Ltd1, the English High Court has found that a loan agreement had been validly terminated by a lender following the default of a borrower...

As two of the largest participants in the lending market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the "GSEs") are busy preparing for the transition away from LIBOR.

Today, the House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act by a 380-41 vote. Last week, the Senate passed an identical version of the Act by 73-26. We expect President Obama to sign the JOBS Act into law in the coming days.

On June 4, 2019, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (the "FCA") published its policy statement PS19/14 (the "Policy Statement") following responses to its July 2018 consultation paper CP18/20

On July 1, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that it had fined John Shevlin, an IT technician at Body Shop International plc (Body Shop), £85,000 ($170,000) for market abuse.

HM Treasury has published a consultation paper on implementation of the Prospectus Directive in the UK. The Directive will require significant amendments to the existing UK legislative framework for public offers of securities and admission of securities to trading on regulated markets.

The Companies (Acquisition of Own Shares) (Treasury Shares) Regulations 2003 (the regulations), which are due to come into force on 1 December 2003, will liberalise the regulatory regime that applies to certain companies wishing to buy back their own shares.

The Court of Appeal has considered a number of issues arising from an international sale of goods transaction, including the autonomy of a demand repayment guarantee.

This time last year, Emma Radmore of Dentons looked at 10 key legislative and regulatory changes that will affect participants in the UK financial markets in 2014.

In the watershed decision of Morrison et al. v. National Australia Bank Ltd., the United States Supreme Court has held that private causes of action under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) may not be based on the purchase or sale of securities on foreign exchanges or on securities transactions otherwise occurring outside the United States.

At the 2009 Spring Meeting of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association ("ABA"), Andrew "Buddy" Donohue, Director of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), challenged the ABA Subcommittee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers to address concerns about investment company use of derivatives and leverage.

The European Company Statute (the "Statute") creates a new form of company ("societas europaea" or "SE"), available to commercial organisations with operations in more than one member state. When the concept was first aired over 40 years ago, the objective was to develop a single form of company which would be subject to a European Community-wide company law code, rather than the laws of any single member state. This proved difficult to attain, due to disagreement between member states both as t

Welcome to the May edition of Gatehouse Chambers' Property Newsletter. We hope you had a fantastic bank holiday weekend.

Welcome everyone to 2026, and to the first of this year's Gatehouse Property Newsletter (incorporating the answer to last month's "Who am I?" – thanks for all who played!).

Welcome to our final Case Review of 2006. Once again we have selected a few of the recent cases that may have a practical impact on the way in which our clients conduct their businesses.

The Market Abuse Directive is being implemented in the UK on 1 July 2005, when the main provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2005 will come into force.

Welcome to the March 2011 edition of Banking and Capital Markets Insight, which focuses on technical issues currently coming out of the banking, capital markets, securities and fund management arenas.

This judgment of the High Court illustrates the challenges of pleading illegality as a defence, particularly when the impugned law is foreign.