Asset Management, UK, Foreign Investment

Structured Finance Spectrum - Summer 2024

Alston & Bird on 8/7/2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the new UK securitization regime, eHELOCs, and climate risk disclosures....more

UK National Security and Investment Act—Considerations for Sellers of Shares and Assets

K&L Gates LLP on 10/28/2022

Executive Summary - The UK National Security and Investment Act (the Act) came into force on 4 January 2022, and applies to transactions that completed as of 11 November 2020. The Act is designed to govern arrangements that...more

Real estate joint ventures: Marriage of equity and expertise

White & Case LLP on 11/19/2019

The asset manager's expertise, coupled with the investor's capital, allows both parties to maximise their respective returns. Real estate has always had a strong appeal to investors. Property yields have been outperforming...more

Investment Funds Update Europe: Legal and regulatory updates for the funds industry from the key asset management centres and...

Dechert LLP on 1/26/2018

Entry into force of MiFID II - The Directive 2014/65/EU on Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID II) entered into force in France on 3 January 2018. Within the framework, the French legal framework has been updated over...more

Regulation Round Up - June 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on 7/4/2017

2 June - The ESMA published its final report on guidelines on product governance requirements under the MiFID II Directive (2004/65/EU). The guidelines (set out in Annex IV) to the final report aim to promote greater...more

UK Votes To Leave The EU: What Does it Mean for Asset Managers?

Dechert LLP on 6/27/2016

The voters have spoken. Britain will (absent any new deals) leave the EU. Under the EU Treaty, the exit process should take at least two years. During this two-year period, UK-based asset management entities, including...more