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The main goal of the recently published Technical Expert Stakeholder Group (TESG) Report is to start to set free EU Capital Markets from the cage of regulations suffocating them. As noted by the TESG...

The regime applicable to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has become a topic of paramount importance in the context of the burgeoning debate on the need to foster and accelerate the...

Since July 2016 it has been an open question whether the Market Abuse Regulation No. 596/2014 (MAR) creates horizontal direct effect such that market participants have a private right of action for...

Modern, globalised financial markets are the offspring of a process of liberalisation of capital that started with the collapse of Bretton Woods in the 1970s and culminated with the deregulation...

On 6th June, five European banking federations signed, with the blessing of three European associations representing the interests of SMEs and businesses, a four-page document entitled ‘High-level...

One of the key actions of the Capital Markets Union (hereinafter ‘CMU’) was the revision of the Prospectus Directive. On 7 December 2016, the European Parliament, the Council and the European...

When European banks were hit by financial calamity, a lack of alternative funding arrangements deepened the crisis. Stronger European capital markets would have changed that picture, because savers...

As part of its Action Plan on building a Capital Markets Union, the European Commission recently published a Staff Working Document entitled "Crowdfunding in the EU Capital Markets Union". The report...

The European Commission (EC) is today taking stock of the progress made in the first six months since the adoption of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan and it is publishing the first CMU...

This post comes to us from Andrew Wilkinson and Paul Bagon of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Together with AFME and Frontier Economics, we have produced a new report into European insolvency law reform...

This post is based on a client memorandum by Carlo de Vito Piscicelli, Fabio Saccone, Amélie Champsaur, Robin Barriere, Manuel Metzner, and Valentin M. Pfisterer of Cleary Gottlieb. In Italy, France...