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The European Securities and Markets Authority has recently issued a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards.

In December 2015 the Central Bank of Ireland published new regulations for regulated entities lending to the SME sector, to strengthen protections available to SMEs.

This case is of relevance for entities/individuals who have acquired Irish loans/Irish loan portfolios and who wish to rely on statutory enforcement rights rather than contractual enforcement rights...

Following the enactment in July 2015 of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015, the Central Bank has published its Authorisation Requirements and Standards for Credit Servicing Firms.

ESMA has released its second set of advice on the possible extension of the AIFMD passport to 12 non-EU countries. We set out a summary of ESMA's assessment.

On 25 February 2016, the Central Bank provided feedback following its inspection of the management of conflicts of interest in investment firms.

From 1 November 2015, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") will no longer require Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities ("UCITS") to have a promoter.

Ireland has availed of a loan facility by the IMF/ECB/EFSF "Troika" in the amount of €67.5bn.

The High Court has recently ruled that an acutely ill and profoundly disabled 10 year old girl in State care should not be resuscitated or receive emergency life-saving intervention.

As you know from our update on the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015, available here, the Act came into effect on 1 September, 2015. Regulations have been introduced which class more people as "Designated Public Officials" under the Act.

The proceedings were dismissed as frivolous and vexatious on other grounds.

A recent Court of Appeal decision in the UK has ruled that individuals facing bankruptcy cannot be forced to hand over their pensions to pay off outstanding debts.

Two recent developments may have rendered the Irish legal system less attractive to creditors. We examine the scope of these developments and the likely impact on debt collection activity in Ireland.

The implementation of the Solvency II Directive into Irish law on the 1 January 2016 is a major development for the Irish insurance industry.

With the upcoming delegation of new generic Top Level Domains, trade mark owners should consider taking pre-emptive steps to prevent domain name squatters.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has recently ruled on whether licensees of a Community Trade Mark need to have registered the licence in the Register of Community trade marks in order to bring an action for infringement of the licenced trade mark.

The trend of IP enforcement continues with almost all sectors experiencing some activity. Combined with this, we explore some other interesting developments.