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23 September 2016
ASIC reports regarding the public M&A space for the first half of 2016
ASIC’s figures for control transactions show that, while the number of takeover bids in the first half of calendar 2016 was the same as schemes of arrangement, value was heavily weighted to schemes.
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23 September 2016
Brexit Implications for the Insurance Sector
The House of Commons Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has launched an inquiry into EU regulation of insurance . The inquiry will allow the TSC to look at the case for retaining, losing or adapting Solvency II in a post-Brexit world. Its Chairman, Andrew Tyrie MP, has commented that Brexit provides...
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19 September 2016
Brexit: Sector and Legal Perspectives
The "in-out" Referendum on the question of the UK's membership of the European Union (EU) which has dominated the political and business agenda in the UK for the last six months, has resulted in a majority of voters (on a turnout of approximately 72%) preferring the UK to leave the EU. The vote was...
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15 September 2016
Scope of proposed new offence of failing to prevent economic crime
This week has seen a flurry of press reports which appear to suggest that individual directors could be held personally liable for the acts of company employees under the proposed new criminal offence of failing to prevent fraud or economic crime, however, we understand that this is unlikely to be...
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23 September 2016
ASIC reports regarding the public M&A space for the first half of 2016
ASIC’s figures for control transactions show that, while the number of takeover bids in the first half of calendar 2016 was the same as schemes of arrangement, value was heavily weighted to schemes.
Legal Briefings
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23 September 2016
Brexit Implications for the Insurance Sector
The House of Commons Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has launched an inquiry into EU regulation of insurance . The inquiry will allow the TSC to look at the case for retaining, losing or adapting Solvency II in a post-Brexit world. Its Chairman, Andrew Tyrie MP, has commented that Brexit provides...
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19 September 2016
Brexit: Sector and Legal Perspectives
The "in-out" Referendum on the question of the UK's membership of the European Union (EU) which has dominated the political and business agenda in the UK for the last six months, has resulted in a majority of voters (on a turnout of approximately 72%) preferring the UK to leave the EU. The vote was...
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15 September 2016
Scope of proposed new offence of failing to prevent economic crime
This week has seen a flurry of press reports which appear to suggest that individual directors could be held personally liable for the acts of company employees under the proposed new criminal offence of failing to prevent fraud or economic crime, however, we understand that this is unlikely to be...