The Budget Statement announced measures for 'ensuring that EIS is not used as a shelter for low-risk capital preservation schemes'.

With various substantive initiatives being run by ESMA, there is keen interest in the Proposal published by the European Commission in September ...

This Briefing Paper updates you on the developments of the European Commission's flagship initiative of building a Capital Markets Union...

European Long Term Investment Funds or "ELTIFs", a new form of AIF which can have a retail passport, are available from 9 December 2015.

The European Union is undertaking a review of the 2010 Audio-Visual Media Services Directive.

The FCA clearly states that it wants to promote competition by supporting disruptive innovation.

UCITS V must be transposed into EU Member States laws by 18 March 2016.

This article entitled "An alternative to patents: can DNA be protected by copyright and design right law?" by Beatriz San Martin and Heidi Hurdle was published in the journal Cell and Gene Therapy Insights.

The Fieldfisher tax and structuring group has launched a new brochure, aimed at owner managed businesses.

The goal of the process is to provide assistance to companies in reducing costs and administration burden involved.

Phil Lee (Managing Partner in the Palo Alto office) and Olivier Proust (Of Counsel in the Privacy and Information group) updated a Whitepaper on "EU cookie audits: are you compliant?", which was co-authored with TRUSTe.

Ethiopia has experienced strong economic growth in recent years and is Africa's fastest growing economy.

On 21 April 2016, the first case under the Biocidal Products Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 (BPR) was pleaded before the Board of Appeal (BoA) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

Now that we know the effective date of the EU rules for the margining of uncleared swaps, we have created an up-dated and final version of the comparison of the EU and US margin rules...

Getting "GDPR ready" may seem a daunting task – but with careful planning, project management and prioritisation, it is an achievable one.

The UK remains the base for a vast majority of European based alternative investment fund managers.

As 2017 came to a close, clients and contacts in the industry joined us to wave goodbye to the old and look forward to 2018.

The logic as to how UCITS and AIFMD sit alongside each other, with AIFMD being for managers of alternative investment funds offered to professional investors, is put into question.

The Treasury has announced the replacement of the Approved Persons Regime for all approved persons.

For those involved in the alternative funds space, much attention has of course been focused on the recent implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).