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In one of the most widely-debated judgments of recent years, the Supreme Court has ruled that the word "sex", for the purposes of the Equality Act, means a person's biological sex.

As private credit owners navigate troubled borrower situations, they often face the challenge of replacing underperforming senior management teams. With the UK abolishing the unfair dismissal compensation cap and reducing the qualifying period from two years to six months starting January 2027, the landscape for managing executive exits is set to transform dramatically, making current strategies for performance management and negotiated departures significantly more complex and costly.

It did not take many conversations at the 15th Fund Finance Association Global Symposium in early February, nor a deep review of the conference agenda...

The UK tax authority is proposing sweeping changes to how it taxes individuals for company distributions and capital reductions, modernizing outdated legislation to ensure economically similar payments receive consistent tax treatment. However, these proposals represent a significant departure from long-established rules that underpin the UK's attractiveness as a place to do business and invest, potentially inflicting collateral damage on wider commercial activity and retail investors.

Share On Monday (29 July 2024), the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, gave a statement to the House of Commons, setting out the state of the public finances and confirming that some "difficult decisions" would need to be made.

The Privy Council's decision in Sian Participation Corp v Halimeda International Ltd makes it easier to wind up companies with debts subject to arbitration agreements or foreign court jurisdictions, overturning the restrictive precedent set by Salford Estates.

The Government has set out its intention to amend existing legislation to address the late payment of supplier invoices and to promote greater transparency of large organisations’ practices of paying invoices.

Welcome to the latest edition of our investment management update. This publication has been tailored to highlight topical news, cases and changes in the law impacting the investment management sector.

Private infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest-growing asset classes, with nearly $1.8 trillion deployed across 10,000 transactions in five years. As institutional investors, family offices, and private debt funds converge on sectors from data centres to renewable energy, the market is experiencing unprecedented capital deployment alongside increasingly complex structuring requirements.

The Investment Association has released comprehensive guidance addressing the growing trend of virtually enabled shareholder meetings, establishing clear expectations for publicly traded companies...