Sustainability regulation: how can financial market participants prepare?

Over the last four years, the EU has been at the forefront of regulating sustainable finance, having introduced multiple new legislations that have completely changed the playing field for financial market participants. The terms SFDR, Articles 6, 8 or 9, and Taxonomy, have become regular topics of conversation for fund managers. So, what has changed…

Marketing a non-EEA domiciled fund to professional investors

Most of our readers will be aware that, from 1 January 2021, non-EEA domiciled fund structures do not benefit from any EU Marketing Passport under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”). How are firms responding to this? We are seeing a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction approach being adopted by most of our clients, who are looking to…

Brexit, begin

Nine months after the referendum that overturned half a century of British economic and foreign policy, the UK government has invoked Article 50. The ‘phoney war’ is over, and now begins at least two years of negotiations that, absent a dramatic U-turn, will conclude with Britain leaving the European Union. No one can be certain…