Practice notes and precedents covering the creation and enforcement of bilateral facility agreements, security over different types of assets and guarantees in finance transactions.
Guidance on the authorisation and supervision of Irish financial institutions and the regulation of a wide range of areas include anti money laundering, fintech, payment services and e-money, credit, insurance and crowdfunding.
Transactional lawyers need to stay on top of market changes. We track developments of key industry bodies such as the LMA and ISDA as well as hot topics to help keep you updated.
Q&A guides provide jurisdiction specific information and overviews on financial services litigation, securities litigation and fintech.
In a post on the European Central Bank (ECB)鈥檚 The Supervision Blog, Anneli Tuominen, a member of the Supervisory Board, looks at how the EU鈥檚 Digital...
The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) has provided advice to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on its consultation...
The three European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has repealed its Guidelines on major incident reporting under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) due to the...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have published a joint report analysing recent...
Residence articles in double tax treatiesThe concept of being 鈥榬esident in a contracting state鈥 is key in a double tax treaty (DTT) because:鈥TTs only...
The EU sustainability-related disclosure regulation (EU SFDR)鈥攅ssentialsThis Practice Note analyses the scope and requirements of the EU regulation on...
EU Regulation of crowdfunding鈥攖he ECSP Regulation and the MiFID II Crowdfunding DirectiveScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note discusses the...
The UK regulation of crowdfunding platforms鈥攅ssentialsScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note focuses on the UK regulatory issues faced by...
ESG measures to amend AIFMD/UCITS/MiFID鈥攅ssentialsThis essentials note discusses the EU environmental social governance (ESG) (also referred to as...
Ireland鈥擟ounterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
This Precedent is a governing law clause, sometimes known as an applicable law clause or a choice of law clause. The governing law clause is...
Ireland鈥擠eclaration of a director鈥檚 interests in a proposed transaction or arrangement鈥攇eneral noticeThe directors[Insert name of company]...
Ireland鈥擠eed of release: for a debenture or mortgage鈥攕ingle company security provider鈥攆ull releaseGeneralThis Precedent can be used for full release...
Ireland鈥擜ppointment of process agent letter: for a bilateral facility agreementAppointment of process agentThe general rule is that proceedings under...
Residence articles in double tax treatiesThe concept of being 鈥榬esident in a contracting state鈥 is key in a double tax treaty (DTT) because:鈥TTs only...
The EU sustainability-related disclosure regulation (EU SFDR)鈥攅ssentialsThis Practice Note analyses the scope and requirements of the EU regulation on...
EU Regulation of crowdfunding鈥攖he ECSP Regulation and the MiFID II Crowdfunding DirectiveScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note discusses the...
The UK regulation of crowdfunding platforms鈥攅ssentialsScope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note focuses on the UK regulatory issues faced by...
ESG measures to amend AIFMD/UCITS/MiFID鈥攅ssentialsThis essentials note discusses the EU environmental social governance (ESG) (also referred to as...
ISDA鈥攍atest news on documentationThis Practice Note contains a summary of new and updated documents published by the International Swaps and...
Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLRs)鈥攅ssentials for financial servicesThis Practice Note considers the application of the Money Laundering,...
MLD4 and UK implementation鈥攌ey provisions for financial services firms鈥攐ne minute guideThis one minute guide summarises the key provisions of the...
The EU Taxonomy Regulation鈥攅ssentialsThis Practice Note analyses the scope and impact of the EU Taxonomy Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2020/852), and...
Ireland鈥擟ounterparts clauseCounterpartsA counterparts clause is a common boilerplate clause which provides that the parties to an agreement may...
This Precedent is a governing law clause, sometimes known as an applicable law clause or a choice of law clause. The governing law clause is...
The taxation of associated enterprises under double tax treatiesDouble tax treaties (DTTs) adopt the principle that companies within a multinational...
The concept of permanent establishment in double tax treatiesThe concept of a 鈥榩ermanent establishment鈥 (PE) is set out in Article 5 of the...
Aviation finance鈥擨slamic finance considerationsThe Islamic finance industry has seen rapid growth in recent years as financial institutions and their...
Aviation finance鈥攁ircraft tax leasesAviation finance lends itself to tax leasing in many jurisdictions. Tax leases are usually a means of tax...
Execution of contracts鈥攋urisdictional guideThis guide sets out the requirements for executing simple contracts in various international jurisdictions....
Execution of deeds鈥攋urisdictional guideThis guide sets out the requirements for executing deeds in various international jurisdictions. The table...
Ireland鈥擝anking & Financial Services horizon scanner 2024This horizon scanner tracks key dates and developments affecting the Irish Banking &...
A hidden flaw or defect in the workmanship, design, materials or construction of a building that is not visible or patent to a competent person, or with their advice, on inspection.
A disposition that must be completed by registration in order to take effect at law.
A person making a statement that it does not intend to make an offer for a company should make the statement as clear and unambiguous as possible. The consequences of a person making such a statement are set out in Rule 2.8, most notably that neither the person making the statement, nor any person who acted in concert with that person, nor any person who is subsequently acting in concert with either of them, may within six months from the date of the statement announce an offer or possible offer for the offeree (including a partial offer which would result in the offeror and persons acting in concert with it being interested in shares carrying 30% or more of the voting rights of the offeree).