2024 was once again an active year for the Cayman Islands regulatory industry. In this edition of our Regulatory & Risk Advisory Outlook, our team has summarised the key changes and news during 2024 and taken a look at the...more
Following an order by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implementing a stay of its final climate disclosure rules pending review of legal challenges to such rules in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...more
On 27 March 2024, Austrian legislation was published transposing the European legal requirements of the so-called Transparency Directive into national law....more
The Council of the European Union has confirmed that it has adopted changes to EU trading rules in the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (“MiFIR”) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”)...more
A wave of new legislation and regulation in the U.S. and Europe has the potential to significantly impact the non-financial reporting obligations of U.S. companies. With the myriad of requirements overlaid with varying...more
As set out in our Proskauer Special Report “Primarily Non-financial corporate reporting for U.S. companies – where to start?”, it may be complex to determine the applicability of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting...more
The Spanish Insurance and Reinsurance Distribution Act implementing the Directive 2016/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 January 2016 on Insurance Distribution (the ”IDD”) has been finally approved and...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation establishing Regulatory Technical Standards for electronic financial reporting formats under the European Transparency Directive has been published in the Official Journal of the European...more
In March 2017, the London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”) announced a new debt multilateral trading facility (“MTF”) targeted at institutional and professional investors, the International Securities Market (the “ISM”). The ISM...more
HM Treasury has published explanatory guidance on a draft statutory instrument, the Official Listing of Securities, Prospectus and Transparency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. The statutory instrument is still under...more
If you have ever made an online purchase, chances are that you have received at least one email in the last month notifying you that a company’s privacy policy has changed. ...more
As part of the Capital Markets Union action plan announced in September 2015, the European Parliament and the Council issued on Dec. 12, 2017, the regulation laying down a general framework for securitization and creating a...more
The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for October has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. In this...more
On December 9, 2016, France enacted a statute broadly granting whistleblower protections to employees. This new law represents the next step in the evolution of such protections in France. The focus on this area of law...more
Funds Bulletin (a monthly round-up of topical legal, regulatory and tax issues affecting the fund industry). Features our summary of the FSCP's position paper on the impact of Brexit on financial services consumers, as well...more
According to this Reuters article and a blog by Elm Sustainability Partners LLC, an informal deal for EU conflict minerals legislation has been reached. The final text will be voted on by the member states on December 7,...more
New rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to U.S. and foreign governments for the commercial development of oil, natural gas or...more
We discussed the European Commission’s (the “Commission”) proposal for a regulation (the “Regulation”) intended to harmonise existing EU laws applying to securitisations, including EU risk retention rules, and to create a...more
Summary - On 26 November 2015, the United Kingdom’s major shareholding notification rules will be amended in order to implement the requirements of the revised Transparency Directive (“TD2”, as amended by Directive...more
On October 1, 2015, the German Parliament adopted the national “Act Implementing the EU Transparency Directive Amending Directive (2013/50/EU)” (the “Act”). The aim of the directive is to harmonize the regime for notification...more
On September 30, 2015 the European Commission (EC) published a legislative proposal for an EU framework for simple, transparent and standardized securitization. It has also published a legislative proposal for a regulation...more
On September 17, 2015, the Covered Bond Label Foundation and the European Covered Bond Council announced agreement on the implementation of a Harmonized Transparency Template (HTT) across jurisdictions for all covered bond...more
In the most recent edition of its regular market conduct and transaction reporting-focused ‘Market Watch’ publication, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) provides a review of commodities firms’ compliance and...more
German Federal Council Passes Retail Investors Protection Act - The German Federal Council approved the Retail Investors Protection Act on 12 June 2015 which will enter into force in the near future. The Act is designed...more
Background - In the wake of the current financial crisis, predicting earnings is challenging. The media is flooded with profit warnings. Boards throughout Europe are faced with a difficult question: Must a company post...more