In Bilta (UK) Limited v Royal Bank of Scotland [2017] EWHC 3535 (Ch), the High Court once again addressed the application of legal privilege to documents prepared in the course of an internal investigation.
The internal...more
In a speech delivered earlier this year to the AFME European Compliance and Legal Conference1, Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight for the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), addressed the agency’s...more
Following the investigations into alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), in July the head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Andrew Bailey, announced plans to abandon this “unsustainable”...more
In the wake of multiple criminal and regulatory investigations into alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has...more
On Feb. 13, 2017, John Griffith-Jones, chairman of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, delivered a speech to the Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge entitled "What makes good conduct...more
In the years since the financial crisis, the topic of whistleblowing has been high on the public agenda. At the 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit earlier this year, the UK government committed to “providing effective protections...more
The high-profile insider trading prosecution dubbed “Operation Tabernula”, brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), has this month secured two further convictions. After a 12-week trial, Martyn Dodgson and Andrew...more