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UK's FCA updates timeline of Overseas Funds Regime (Eversheds Sutherland)
Eversheds Sutherland
2 pages

On 28 February 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its Regulatory Initiatives Grid updating the timeline of the Overseas Funds Regime (“OFR”), the new equivalence regime for retail investment funds and money market funds established outside the UK, which will allow recognised funds to be marketed to the public in the United Kingdom.

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Interest Area: Financial Services
Region: United Kingdom
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Equal Pay and Pay Transparency in Germany
Loschelder and TerraLex
2 pages

Usually, the biggest obstacle in enforcing the right to equal pay is that the employee does not know whether colleagues of the other sex – the Transparency Act focuses on sex, not gender – receive more pay.

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Interest Area: Compliance and Ethics, Financial Services, Employment and Labor
Region: Germany
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UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) introduces changes to FSM Overseas Funds Regime (Eversheds Sutherland)
Eversheds Sutherland
3 pages

On 16 December 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a notice confirming the Collective Investment Schemes (Individually Recognised Overseas Schemes and Miscellaneous Amendments) Instrument 2022 ("CIS 2022") became effective 1 January 2023. CIS 2022 introduces changes to the ‘s272 regime’ contained in Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”) for recognising overseas collective investment funds. The Collective Investment Schemes sourcebook (“COLL”), the Decision Procedure and Penalties manual (“DEPP”) and the Glossary of definitions of the FCA Handbook are amended.

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Interest Area: Financial Services
Region: United Kingdom
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It’s a Brand-New World! Tools for Your In-house Toolbox: Relevant, Current & Essential Programming for Alberta Lawyers

Join your fellow in-house on Monday, March 6. Four sessions certain to keep your in-house legal tools sharp! 

10:00 am - Managing Legal Spend: Demonstrating legal value in a changing landscape, Thomson Reuters

11:00 am - Dispute Resolution in 2023: Key considerations for corporate counsel, Bennett Jones

12:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 pm - One Year Later: Emerging Risks with the Hybrid Workplace, BLG

2:00 pm - Crush Your Next Investigation, Blakes

3:00 - Networking wine & cheese

1-Antitrust Enforcement Trends etc.

-Overview of the Antitrust landscape and "the enforcers" at the FTC and DOJ, Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter

- An Update on M&A Enforcement today in the U.S.

- Attendance deal structure considerations

-Other antitrust topics, including FTC's non-compete rulemaking, interlocking directorates & international M&A considerations

2-Need To Know: Recent Developments In M&A etc.

- Shareholder activism developments, including the SEC's new universal proxy rules and how companies can prepare

- Financing market update

- Hostile deals and other 2023 M&A  Market Trends

- Bridging the valuation gap (CVRs, earnouts, deferred payments and other strategies

- Representation and warranty insurance prevalence for strategics and sponsors

 

Ken Yormark will dig further into some of the 

- Line items on the balance sheet and the income statement to show areas where he sees fraud occur

-Will also review accounts where judgment comes into play and how those accounts can be "managed" and

-Provide additional insight into ratios and how they can be interpreted and be informative, 

Fox Partners Michael Sweet (Chair, Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy), Brian Anderson (Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy) and Deana Labriola (Corporate and Transactional), will cover the basics of creditor’s rights, starting with what you should do when you receive notice from some far-off court that your customer/vendor/landlord has filed for bankruptcy protection. These Fox partners will also discuss ways to avoid or mitigate financial risks, especially when vendors and even clients are in financial distress.   Creditors have rights, and there are ways to protect those rights, starting with – responding to that first bankruptcy notice.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
11:45am | Registration & Buffet Opens
12:15 - 1:15pm | CLE

The digital euro - an initial stocktaking (CMS)
CMS
2 pages

Learn about the potential introduction of a digital Euro.

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Interest Area: Financial Services
Region: Europe, European Union
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Breaking down barriers: A global guide to foreign investment regimes (Eversheds Sutherland)
Eversheds Sutherland
262 pages

A comparative global guide of foreign investment regimes in many jurisdictions.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: Global, Europe, Asia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
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