Expert Guides - United Kingdom

Recent Developments in Financial Crime

The last year has been an eventful one in the sphere of economic crime. Aside from high profile enforcement successes for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), on the legislative front there have been a number of key statutory developments that have brought into sharp focus the UK government’s...

03/05/2017 Stephen Gentle, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom Helen Soutter, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom

Maintaining privilege in U.K. regulator-facing investigations: issues for company advisers

The recent judgment approving the Rolls-Royce (“Rolls”) deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) demonstrates that no company is too big for the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”) to pursue

03/05/2017 Neil Gerrard, Dechert, United Kingdom Matthew Cowie, Dechert, United Kingdom

Cyber Security – The Legal and Regulatory Landscape in the TMT Sector

According to the World Economic Forum, cybercrime is estimated to cost $445 billion globally

03/05/2017 Alexander Brown, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom Annalie Grogan, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom

Investor information: How do you reconcile openness and confidentiality?

Investment managers have never been more interested in maintaining confidentiality over their investment strategies and performance than today

03/05/2017 Peter D Astleford, Dechert, United Kingdom

Appeals in English patent cases – no more special treatment

Although patent cases are often technically complex, the English Court of Appeal has held that they are no longer entitled to special treatment when it comes to permission to appeal

29/03/2017 Christopher Stothers, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, United Kingdom Kathy Osgerby, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, United Kingdom

Arrow declarations: the English courts devise an end-run for technology users

Today, successful products are frequently protected by a number of patents (as well, potentially, as other intellectual property) directed towards specific aspects

29/03/2017 Lorna Brazell, Osborne Clarke, United Kingdom

Energy Storage – There’s a Storm Coming

The idea of energy storage is not new – pumped hydro-electric solutions have been used in the UK for decades, but advancement in battery technologies and a sharp decline in the cost of a leading technology – lithium-ion batteries – means that energy storage is finally becoming an economically viable...

21/03/2017 Steven McNab, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom Sarah-Jane Denton, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom

LNG to power projects: Potential opportunities on the rise

In the face of continuing deficits across the world in power generation capacity, we are seeing increasing consideration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power projects as a relatively rapid way of adding significant capacity to the grid

21/03/2017 Philip Thomson, Ashurst, United Kingdom David Wadham, Ashurst, United Arab Emirates

Project Bonds: Growing Liquidity for Energy and Infrastructure Finance

Faced with continued demand for large-scale, “mega project” investment, sponsors seeking the cheapest possible debt have mobilised increasingly diverse sources of capital through carefully structured financing packages

21/03/2017 John Dewar, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, United Kingdom Chris Puttock, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, United Kingdom

Digital disruption in law and related legal issues

The legal industry and lawyers are very traditional in their ways of working

27/02/2017 Paul Barton, Fieldfisher, United Kingdom

The fallout from Res Cogitans and expected changes to bunker supply contracts

The recent English Supreme Court judgment in the Res Cogitans case, in effect a test case arising from the financial collapse and insolvency of OW Bunker & Trading A/S and its associated companies (OWB), has set the tone for dozens of pending claims on the international scene, with decisions largely...

24/01/2017 Scott McCabe, Norton Rose Fulbright, United Kingdom Nicholas Papadopoulos, Norton Rose Fulbright, United Kingdom

Fraud, lies & liquidation? Is this the future of shipping?

Each November the international maritime industry holds its annual dinner in London

24/01/2017 Nick Burgess, BDM Law, United Kingdom

Deferring the disclosure of inside information

Must ‘price sensitive’ or ‘inside’ information of issuers of UK listed securities (“Issuers”) always be immediately disclosed to the market or may disclosure be deferred?

20/01/2017 John Atanaskovic, Atanaskovic Hartnell, United Kingdom Jon Skene, Atanaskovic Hartnell, United Kingdom

Project Finance: Then, Now and in the Future

I have had the pleasure of contributing to this compendium of the leaders of our industry for nearly a decade, having effectively inherited the role from Graham Vintner upon his retirement from active practice

17/10/2016 Phillip Fletcher, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, US

Change occasionally needs a Nudge

Over the last few decades, significant progress has been made by women in the legal profession and in the field of international dispute resolution

26/08/2016 Wendy J Miles QC, Debevoise & Plimpton, United Kingdom

The Insurance Act 2015: The increased disclosure burden imposed on insureds

Much has been written about the implementation of the Insurance Act 2015 (“the Act”) which came into effect on 12th August 2016, in particular with regard to the possible increased liabilities of insurers by the introduction of the proportionate remedies regime and the shift in the burden onto...

25/08/2016 Simon Sloane, Fieldfisher, United Kingdom

Recent UPC Developments

The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patents Court (UPC) have been topics of discussion within Europe for decades

24/06/2016 Penny Gilbert, Powell Gilbert, United Kingdom Bethan Hopewell, Powell Gilbert, United Kingdom

Better out than in?

At the time of writing, we are a few weeks away from a referendum about whether the UK should remain a part of the EU

23/06/2016 Paul Davidoff, Bircham Dyson Bell, United Kingdom

European Illiquid Credit Fund Strategies

The challenges faced by the banking sector post-2008 have created significant opportunities for alternative asset managers in a field formerly the domain of banks and other financial institutions

23/06/2016 James Oussedik, Sidley Austin, United Kingdom

The developing English jurisprudence regarding material adverse change clauses

Acquisitions of private companies in the United States are almost universally conditional upon the absence of a material adverse change (a “MAC”)

23/06/2016 Simon J Little, Davis Polk & Wardwell, United Kingdom

Mortgagee duties: PK Airfinance Sarl v Alpstream AG

In December 2015, the Court of Appeal reaffirmed the scope of a mortgagee’s duties and to whom such duties are owed. In this briefing we examine the key messages from the decision and the practical implications for the aviation industry

23/06/2016 Sarah Humpleby, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, United Kingdom

Cape Town Convention and its implementation in the United Kingdom

At long last, the United Kingdom has finally adopted the Cape Town Convention which came into force on 1st November 2015

24/05/2016 Robert Ricketts, Holland & Knight, United Kingdom Gwyn O’Flynn, Holland & Knight, United Kingdom

The cost of EC261 and how to minimise it

Few would have thought, when it became law in 2004, that the Denied Boarding Regulation EC 261, which started life as a deterrent to stop airlines operating within and out of the EU from overbooking or cancelling flights for commercial reasons, would be progressively extended into the financial and...

24/05/2016 Robin Springthorpe, Norton Rose Fulbright, United Kingdom