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The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023: What companies need to know and what they can do to prepare

McDermott Will & Schulte on 4/23/2025

The UK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023 sets out two major reforms making it much easier for UK authorities to prosecute corporate wrongdoing: - it substantially increases the circumstances in which a company...more

The Crime and Policing Bill 2025: further reforms to be made to the identification principle

A&O Shearman on 4/1/2025

The Crime and Policing Bill 2025, published by the UK Government on February 25, 2025, proposes extending the new ‘senior manager’ test of corporate criminal attribution to all criminal offences, not just economic crime...more

UK Crime and Policing Bill: New Measures To Facilitate Prosecution of Companies and High-Net-Worth Individuals

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/28/2025

Key Points - If the Crime and Policing Bill (CPB) is enacted in current form, it will make it significantly easier for companies to be held liable for criminal offences committed by their senior managers. Coupled with the...more

Financial Services Act 2021 - changes to PDMR notifications

BCLP on 5/4/2021

The Financial Services Act 2021 (the “Act”) has received Royal Assent and is now law. What does this mean for issuers?...more

The Policing and Crime Act 2017: Changes to the UK Financial Sanctions Regime

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/7/2017

The policing and crime bill received royal assent on 31 January 2017. The new Policing and Crime Act 2017 (the Act) introduces changes to a wide cross-section of the criminal justice system, including policing powers and...more

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