Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 155, To Tesla and Beyond Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 155
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
Daily Compliance News: May 15, 2025, The Downfall in Davos Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 28, 2025, The Cave or Go To Trial Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Celebrating the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies: Highlights with Erica Salmon Byrne
The SEC's Reach Beyond Publicly Traded Companies
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What is a Public Offering?
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Are the Differences Between Private & Public Offerings?
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Meeting the Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements
The Justice Insiders Podcast - Human Beings: Cybersecurity's Most Fragile Attack Surface
JONES DAY TALKS®: Court Grants Stay on SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule, but Companies Should Continue Preparations
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
SEC’s New Cyber Rules for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Commissioner Uyeda on “the Perils of Regulation by Theory and Hypothesis”
- What is new: The FCA has published final rules for the new UK prospectus regime, introducing significant reforms such as a new 75% threshold for secondary issuances, new prospectus exemptions, permitting protected...more
AIM Consultation Paper - 7 April 2025 / LSE - The London Stock Exchange (LSE) initiated a significant consultation on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The discussion paper sought feedback from market participants...more
On 14 April 2025, the FCA published its updated regulatory initiatives grid, which sets out its regulatory pipeline — the first update since the new UK government came to power. The new grid outlines the expected timings of...more
The ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of London’s markets, AIM has been a central feature of UK capital markets for the last 30 years providing growing companies with access to capital and liquidity. ...more
Below is our quarterly briefing covering the most important developments for UK PLCs, UK equity capital markets and UK public M&A. In this issue, we review: - Primary Market Bulletin 54 — Strategic leaks and unlawful...more
In Primary Market Bulletin 54, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") addresses concerns about deliberate, unintentional and unlawful disclosure of market sensitive information during ongoing M&A transactions. Leaks to the...more
This eUpdate focuses on the eligibility requirements, process and continuing obligations for a company with a primary listing in a jurisdiction outside the UK which is seeking a secondary listing on the Main Market of the...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a consultation paper (CP25/2) on further changes to the public offers and admissions to trading (POAT) regime and the UK Listing Rules (UKLR). This was published alongside...more
On 11 July 2024, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) unveiled its final UK Listing Rules for the Main Market, set to take effect on 29 July 2024. These reforms represent the most significant transformation of the...more
Activist shareholders had a busy 2023: The incidence of activist campaigns in Europe soared by almost 70% compared to 2022, according to data compiled by Skadden and Activistmonitor. As we described in a previous issue of The...more
This publication is one of several Allen & Overy publications on the FCA’s Consultation Paper (CP23/31), setting out its detailed proposals for listing rules reforms as part of its Primary Markets Effectiveness Review... ...more
This briefing is the sixth in our series of briefings on corporate governance and is designed to provide a synopsis of topical corporate governance matters impacting companies in the United Kingdom. This briefing tracks the...more
On 20 December 2023, the FCA published finalised proposals for the merger of the existing premium and standard equity listing segments into a new single equity segment. A detailed discussion of these proposals, feedback...more
As part of the wider review of the UK’s capital markets regulatory landscape, in May 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Consultation Paper CP23/10, which set out proposed reforms for companies with listed...more
Following on from the consultation earlier this year, the FCA has published feedback and detailed proposals which will transform the current listing regime. The FCA is proposing to create a single listing category for UK...more
Today the FCA has published its Consultation Paper (CP23/31) setting out its detailed proposals for listing rules reforms as part of its Primary Markets Effectiveness Review. This is the first of two consultations on the...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently launched a consultation on proposed reforms to its Listing Rules, designed to enhance the attractiveness of UK markets for companies seeking to go public. The proposed changes...more
As part of the wider review of the UK’s capital markets regulatory landscape, the FCA published Consultation Paper CP23/10, which sets out reforms for companies with listed shares on the Main Market of the London Stock...more
There has been increased focus recently among London-listed companies in exploring US listings, whether as a further listing or migrating from London altogether. This is primarily being driven by companies seeking to close...more
FCA chief executive’s speech indicates an exciting transition to a lighter regime and a true single listing segment. By James Inness, Anna Ngo, and Johannes Poon On 29 March 2023, FCA Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi delivered a...more
In this alert, we provide a round-up of the latest developments in ESG for UK corporates. In this month’s ESG Market Alert, we cover: New UN guidance on how businesses should ensure respect for human rights in...more
The landmark UK Secondary Capital Raising Review Report takes a holistic approach in making bold and comprehensive recommendations to improve the UK secondary capital raising processes and ecosystem. On 19 July 2022, HM...more
In this alert, we provide a round-up of the latest developments in ESG for UK corporates. In this month’s ESG Market Alert, we cover: The FCA’s final rules on mandatory D&I reporting for UK listed companies; ESMA publishes...more
Takeaways - Responding to a decline in the London Stock Exchange’s global market share of IPOs and other fundraising, a string of government-commissioned reports prompted proposals to reform the U.K.’s listing rules and...more
On 17 December 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") announced a new Listing Rule on climate-related disclosures in its policy statement PS12/23. The new Listing Rule will apply to issuers of shares (or global...more