EU, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), Investors

Europe’s Sharpened Focus on Defense Creates M&A and Investment Opportunities

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/26/2025

Key Points - - The war in Ukraine has prompted a historic surge in European defense spending. - Governments in the EU and U.K. are stressing the need for innovation. They are increasingly turning to investment in small...more

EU Listing Act Package Goes Into Effect in Early December

Mayer Brown on 12/5/2024

On 14 November 2024, a number of amendments to: the Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129) ("PR"); the Market Abuse Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 596/2014) ("MAR"); and the Markets in Financial...more

EU Listing Act Improves Capital Markets Access for SMEs

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 11/18/2024

On November 14, 2024, the EU Listing Act (the “Act”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Act entails a legislative package designed to improve capital markets access and reduce disclosure...more

Financial Incentives Aim to Boost Italian IPOs

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 10/22/2024

As legislators in Rome finalize sweeping reforms of Italy’s financial laws and regulations and the EU Council just adopted the so-called “listing package” to increase attractiveness of EU financial markets, the national...more

5 Tips for Navigating PIPEs in the European Life Sciences Sector

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/28/2023

The challenging funding environment will likely prompt small- and mid-cap listed life sciences companies to seek financing through private investments in public equity. Small- and mid-cap life sciences companies typically...more

IPEM 2022 | Key Takeaways

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/25/2022

After an insightful conference in Cannes, our partners have compiled some of the key takeaways from IPEM 2022. As well as exploring the private equity landscape in the UK, Germany, France and Italy, we also explore the...more

MiFID Refit - Commission Consults on Review of MiFID II Framework

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/27/2020

The consultation provides a key opportunity for market participants to provide feedback on the regime. Key Points: ..The consultation covers a broad range of MiFID topics and, while framed as a questionnaire, contains...more

European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Distributed Ledger Technologies

A&O Shearman on 10/17/2018

The European Parliament has adopted a non-legislative resolution entitled "distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation." Of particular relevance to the financial services sector, the...more

Update on the EU STS and Risk Retention

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 5/26/2016

On 19 May 2016, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament (“ECON”) published a working document on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”) intended to...more

TTIP’s Impact on U.S. and EU Trade Relations

Carlton Fields on 10/7/2015

The United States and the European Union (EU) together represent 60 percent of global GDP, 33 percent of world trade in goods and 42 percent of world trade in services. Direct investment in each other’s economies totals more...more

Securitisation: Keeping it Simple?

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 10/2/2015

On 30 September 2015, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a proposal for a regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”)1 intended to harmonise existing EU laws applying to securitisations (including proposed...more

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