The LathamTECH Podcast — Where Digital Assets Slot Into a Shifting Fintech Regulatory Landscape: Insights From the US, UK, and EU
Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Everything Compliance: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, May 3, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 30, 2025, The 4 AM Wake-Up Call Edition
The Capital Ratio Podcast | Stablecoins: Regulatory Issues for UK and EU Banks To Consider
An Ounce of Prevention Podcast | Preparing for the UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
Daily Compliance News: March 24, 2025, The ABC Task Force Edition
Daily Compliance News: March 18, 2025, The Slack Channel Edition
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Retail Markets
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Wholesale Markets
Fintech Focus Podcast | Navigating IT and Security Risks in Fintechs in Light of Impending DORA Deadline
The Standard Formula Podcast | The SFCR and Other Public Reporting: A Solvency II Cornerstone
Fintech Focus Podcast | Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
Fintech Focus Podcast | The UK Fintech Investment Landscape
The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Fintech Focus Podcast | Managing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
Fintech Focus Podcast | Growing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
In this Insight, first published in PLC, Anna Blest and Katharine Tulloch consider the decision in Jaevee Homes Ltd v Fincham (t/a Fincham Demolition) [2025] EWHC 942 (TCC), in which the court concluded, among other things,...more
The High Court has provided a stark reminder of the risks that arise if parties, despite extensive negotiations, fail to sign their agreements, in this case an engagement letter....more
The courts of England are some of the most established fora for dealing with complex commercial litigation. The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) that apply to English civil litigation, which govern every aspect of cases from...more
The latest analysis of “smarter contracts” provides helpful guidance on the opportunities and potential legal and practical risks in adopting these technologies. LawtechUK’s latest analysis of so-called smarter contracts...more
You might be forgiven for thinking that any time a party wants to get out of a liquidated damages provision, it argues the clause is an unenforceable party. However, in a recent case, a contractor sought to avoid liquidated...more
Litigation is, on one analysis, all about telling stories to impartial decision makers. Complex commercial litigation means that those stories are more detailed, more involved and more intricate. That means that telling the...more
A party who signed without indicating in the signature block that they were an agent was judged to be a principal to the contract....more
It is not uncommon to start a correspondence with a “subject to contract” label. But what does this mean? What is its legal effect?...more
The Land Registry has announced this morning that, with immediate effect and until further notice, they will accept for registration transfers, leases and certain other deeds which have been electronically signed....more
Electronic signatures and virtual signings (using the Law Society guidance following the “Mercury” Tax case) have been gaining popularity for some time with electronic execution given an added boost in Autumn 2019 when the...more
Amid the social distancing restrictions and shelter-at-home orders caused by the COVID-19 crisis, many workers involved in the aircraft finance and leasing industry are working remotely. Transactions and restructurings are...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a statement on its expectations for wet-ink signatures in light of the coronavirus pandemic...more
In light of the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, many organisations are implementing remote working policies and limiting access to offices in order to effect social distancing measures. Notwithstanding the changes to usual...more
We set out in the attached Newsletter a number of interesting English court decisions and market developments which have taken place in the second half of 2019 and their impact on M&A transactions. This review looks at these...more
As sanctions ramp up globally, it is increasingly important for commercial parties engaged in cross border transactions to have certainty (i) as promisees (e.g. lenders) as to when their counterparties may legitimately avoid...more
The recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24 highlights the need for strict observance of No Oral Modification clauses in agreements....more
The UK Supreme Court opinion in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24 marks a step change in English law’s treatment of ‘No Oral Modification’ (“NOM”) clauses. The Court opined that...more
When determining whether parties had validly entered into a contract, the Court of Appeal held that it was wrong to disregard subsequent communications which were inconsistent with the existence of a contract: (1) Global...more
Bryan Cave recently represented the successful claimant in a case which highlights to parties that, even where they have set out formal requirements for signature before becoming bound by a contract, the way they act can be...more
The Terms of Use Agreement (“TOU”) and the Privacy Policy found on most websites govern the relationship between the website operator and all of its customers. Although it may be tempting to copy and use online agreements...more
Verbal contracts have their place in English law - Whether it was American movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn or the Australian/Irish politician Bryan O’Loghlen who first said, ‘A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s...more
American movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn is widely quoted as having said, ‘A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.’ He is also reputed to have stated, ‘I’m willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am...more
The recent decision in Newbury v Sun Microsystems [2013] EWHC 2180 (QB) highlighted the issues in ensuring that draft settlement agreements do not bind the parties until the agreements are in final form. In Newbury, a letter...more
Court confirms that, in certain circumstances, a contract can be made in two jurisdictions. On 7 October 2013, in Conductive Inkjet Technology Ltd v Uni-Pixel Displays Inc, [2013] EWHC 2968 (Ch), the High Court of...more
Unlike many civil law jurisdictions in Europe, English law has generally not recognised an implied obligation that contractual parties should perform their obligations in good faith. English courts take the view that parties...more