When political agreement on the EU Green Bond Regulation (the EuGB Regulation) was reached in February 2023, rapporteur Paul Tang was quoted as saying: This Regulation creates a gold standard that green bonds can aspire to....more
The EU and U.K. prospectus regimes govern disclosure requirements for securities offered to the public and/or admitted to trading on a regulated market. Imminent and forthcoming changes to these regimes will have implications...more
The EU Listing Act, approved by the EU Council on October 8, 2024, and entering into force on December 4, 2024, introduces key changes to the EU Prospectus Regulation, offering greater flexibility for issuers of debt...more
The following legislation that comprises the EU Listing Act package has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union: - Regulation (EU) 2024/2809 amending the EU Prospectus Regulation, the EU MAR and EU...more
By means of a communication dated 22 November 2022, the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has provided clarification of the most common cases where crypto-assets may fall within the scope of the...more
ESMA has issued guidance on what should be included in EU prospectuses issued by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). ...more
ESMA warns against investor protection risks and provides guidance on expected disclosures. On 15 July 2021, ESMA published a statement on the prospectus disclosure and investor protection issues raised by special...more
Following the end of the Brexit transition period, debt capital markets participants may now need to consider both EU rules and the parallel UK rules for EU and UK transactions, particularly those that are cross-border. ...more
ESMA has updated its CESR recommendations in line with the Prospectus Regulation and has taken this opportunity to clarify its expectations on key areas such as working capital statements and pro forma information. The...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a letter it addressed to the European Commission about the technical advice that the Commission requested from ESMA on the general equivalence criteria to guide...more
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has launched a new service, named PLUS for Perma Link Upload Service, to help issuers in referencing their documents via hyperlinks in their prospectuses, as required by the Prospectus...more
Le 21 juillet 2019 sont entrées en vigueur les dernières dispositions du règlement (UE) n°2017/1129 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 14 juin 2017 concernant le prospectus à publier en cas d'offre au public de valeurs...more
The full regulation will come into force in July, imposing new requirements for prospectuses - The new EU Prospectus Regulation will take full effect on 21 July 2019. Issuers and other parties to capital markets...more
After its entry into force on 20 July 2017, the new Prospectus Regulation ("PR3") will become fully applicable from 21 July 2019. It will replace the previous EU Directive 2003/71/EC (the "Prospectus Directive"). The change...more
The events surrounding the Brexit negotiations continue to be in a state of flux - but we do have some clarity around the status of the Prospectus Regulation in the UK whatever the outcome of the UK Government's negotiations...more
HM Treasury has published draft legislation that will allow the UK to make timely equivalence decisions in relation to the EU. Key Points: ..Post-Brexit, HM Treasury will take on the role of making equivalence decisions...more
On 20 July 2018, the new Belgian prospectus law was published in the Belgian State Gazette. This new law abolishes the Belgian prospectus law of 16 June 2016 (as of the date that the new Prospectus Regulation will fully...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a consultation paper setting out draft guidelines for national regulators on risk factors under the Prospectus Regulation. ESMA has prepared the draft guidelines...more
A monthly newsletter covering topics of interest in the field of UK corporate law including mergers and acquisitions, listed companies, equity capital markets, corporate governance and general company law. ...more
The EU’s PRIIPs Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014) (the “PRIIPs Regulation”), which came into effect on January 1 this year, has had a significant effect on practices in the wholesale capital markets. Many new...more
In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more
Il 20 luglio 2017, a seguito di pubblicazione in Gazzetta Ufficiale del 30 giugno 2017, è entrato in vigore il Regolamento (UE) 2017/1129 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio (il “Nuovo Regolamento Prospetti”), relativo al...more
A monthly newsletter covering topics of interest in the field of UK corporate law including mergers and acquisitions, listed companies, equity capital markets, corporate governance and general company law....more
The Situation: EU Member States must make key choices under the new EU Prospectus Regulation, which provides a new regime of prospectus requirements when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a...more
The Pre-Emption Group has released a monitoring report which looks at the implementation of the Statement of Principles and the template resolutions regarding disapplication published by the Group in May 2016. The Statement...more