Welcome to the August 2026 edition of Travers Smith's Quarterly Listed Company Update. This issue highlights the latest regulatory developments and guidance relevant to listed companies, as well as key trends and practical points for consideration in the coming months.

On Monday 20th July 2026, the UK will have a new Prime Minister, the current Labour MP for Makerfield, The Rt Hon Andy Burnham.

The corporate reporting element of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 ("MSA") has been widely regarded as ineffective in driving real change in supply chain risk management. The regime requires large commercial organisations to publish annual slavery and human trafficking statements, but says remarkably little about what those statements must contain, imposes no deadline for publication, and has never been the subject of enforcement action.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

Welcome to the second edition of Travers Smith's Crisis Management and Investigations Circular, providing a bite-size round-up of recent developments in the world of crisis management and investigations.

In November 2025, the European Commission published its legislative proposal to update the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (dubbed "SFDR 2.0"), which was preceded a week before by a leaked draft version that was widely discussed in the media.

Commercial property landlords have been in limbo for over five years as to whether and when the current MEES requirement of an EPC E rating would be increased.  Meanwhile, they learnt from the Warm Homes Plan that residential properties in the PRS must have an EPC C rating by October 2030.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.