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The digital economy has boasted of 'unicorns', 'change agents' and 'disruption'. But the difficult question that competition law, and the European Commission, must grapple with is whether the nature...

The creation of the mutual fund will go down as one of the greatest innovations in financial history. It has provided tens if not hundreds of millions of unsophisticated and uninformed stock market...

In its preliminary ruling of 22 June 2017, the ECJ held that the Dutch pre-pack does not come under the derogation in Article 5(1) of Directive 2001/23.The reasoning of the ECJ will have important...

For creditors, insolvency proceedings hold the promise of a peaceful afterlife. If their debtor fails to satisfy their claim, an impartial liquidator will take over and, to the extent possible and in...

With the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) being bailed out by the Italian taxpayer, push comes to shove: Are post-crisis reforms working? First and foremost, this concerns the innovative...

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...

The withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union after 44 years poses unprecedented legal challenges. EU secondary legislation and EU related legislation is evident across the whole...

A brief summary of the case For the purpose of this note, the case (C-106/16) may be summarised as follows. Polbud — Wykonawstwo sp. z o.o. (‘Polbud’) is a private limited liability company...

The FSA’s Retail Distribution Review ('RDR') resulted in a ban on commissions for retail investment advice in the United Kingdom which was implemented in COBS 6.1A.4 R at the end of 2012. This ban on...

I am probably going to be the least interesting Panelist in any of today’s sessions because, in the longer term, it seems very unlikely that Brexit (or, for that matter, Nexit or Frexit, or Quitaly)...

Introduction On 1 June 2017 the European Commission and Italy reached an agreement ‘in principle’ on the recapitalization of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS). A mere week later, the Single...