Hot Topics for Banking & Finance lawyers

Published by a ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô Banking & Finance expert
Practice notes

Hot Topics for Banking & Finance lawyers

Published by a ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô Banking & Finance expert

Practice notes
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This Practice Note provides information on key new and upcoming legal developments, as well as topics currently of particular interest to Banking & Finance lawyers.

New UK listing rules

On 11 July 2024, the FCA published the new UK listing rules (UKLR). See News Analysis: FCA publishes final reforms to listing regime in new UK Listing Rules sourcebook.

What do they do?

The new rules significantly reform the UK listing regime and create a simplified and more competitive UK listing structure. A key change is the introduction of a single listing category for commercial companies (replacing the premium and standard listing categories) subject to a more disclosure-based regulatory regime.

Among other things, the rules for the commercial companies category remove the need for votes on significant or related party transactions and offer variability around dual class share structures with enhanced voting rights. More emphasis on disclosure aims to bolster investor protections to hold the management of companies they co-own to account. The FCA affirms that the overhaul of the listing rules better aligns the UK’s

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means: (a) any legislation, regulation, by-law or subordinate legislation in force from time to time to which a party is subject and/or in any jurisdiction that the Services are provided to or in respect of; (b) the common law and laws of equity as applicable to the parties from time to time; (c) any binding court order, judgment or decree; (d) any applicable industry code, policy or standard; or (e) any applicable direction, policy, rule or order that is binding on a party and that is made or given by any regulatory body having jurisdiction over a party or any of that party’s assets, resources or business;

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