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Funds partners Sam Kay and Will Normand have featured in the latest edition of Private Equity International discussing the effect of regulatory change on the fundraising market. You can read the full keynote interview below.
Travers Smith LLP is advising UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin Holdings plc ("Brewin Dolphin") on its recommended £1.6bn takeover by RCB Wealth Management ("RBC"), an indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada.
Travers Smith LLP is advising UK wealth manager Brewin Dolphin Holdings plc ("Brewin Dolphin") on its recommended £1.6bn takeover by RCB Wealth Management ("RBC"), an indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada.
The Solvency II capital regime (and, since Brexit, its onshored equivalent) affects trustee de-risking agendas both in the short, and longer, term.
Travelling. Seamlessly. podcast series
We recently hosted a webinar on the UK's new Qualifying Asset Holding Company Regime (QAHC) which will come into effect from April 2022.
The High Court has recently rejected an attempt by British Sugar to challenge aspects of the UK's post-Brexit sugar tariffs on the basis that they amounted to an illegal subsidy to its competitor, Tate & Lyle. In this briefing, we look at the wider implications of the ruling for the UK's post-Brexit state aid and tariff regimes.
With COP 26 still fresh in the memories of lawmakers, and both the European Green Deal and UK Government's 'Net Zero Strategy' setting the goal of being climate-neutral by 2050, it is no surprise that competition law is having to examine its interaction with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Many Main Market companies will now be preparing for their 2022 AGM and FY2021 annual reports. This note summarises some of the key agenda items and our expectations for this year.
Many AIM companies will now be preparing for their 2022 AGM and FY2021 annual reports. This note summarises some of the key agenda items and our expectations for this year.
Travers Smith Competition Partner Stephen Whitfield has written an article for Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence on upcoming regulatory challenges facing M&A transactions, in particular in the financial services sector.
Welcome to our series of podcasts focusing on international employment law.
Several recent cases highlight the importance of process for both customers and suppliers when contracting on standard terms (or a mixture of standard terms and "bespoke" terms). In this briefing, we highlight some of the key pitfalls for the unwary, particularly around the so-called "battle of the forms".
"It does not follow that documents obtained lawfully in one jurisdiction are available for use in litigation in another." The High Court confirms in Suppipat v Siam Bank [2022] EWHC 381 (Comm) that, where documents obtained in litigation outside the jurisdiction are proposed to be put in use by a party to English proceedings, English law, as the lex fori, will determine the questions of loss of privilege and confidentiality.
The Chancellor delivered his Spring Statement on 23 March 2022. Mr Sunak attempted to strike the difficult balance between delivering measures which will ameliorate the current cost of living crisis at a time when economic uncertainty and increased security spending as a result of the war in Ukraine is adversely affecting the public purse.
We recently hosted a webinar on the UK's new Qualifying Asset Holding Company Regime (QAHC) which will come into effect from April 2022.
As we have previously reported, many commercial landlords and tenants have had discussions about the extent to which they can comply with their leasehold obligations during the Covid-19 pandemic. The UK Government put in place a number of protective measures for tenants over the course of the past two years.
Travers Smith LLP has advised Auto Trader Group plc ('Auto Trader'), the UK's largest automotive marketplace, on its acquisition of Autorama (UK) Limited ('Autorama'), one of the UK's largest transactional marketplaces for leasing new vehicles.