The FMLC held a Winter Colloquium on the topic of the continuity of financial contracts post-Brexit at the Bank of England. Four speakers articulated a range of views of the topic. […]
Category: Brexit
Coordinating Responses across the City to Brexit Statutory Instruments
HM Treasury has announced it will publish a significant volume of secondary legislation under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in relation to the financial services. As the end of […]
Report: The Robustness of Financial Contracts after Brexit: 6 August 2018
Since the U.K. voted to withdraw from the E.U., a question which has been raised by many market participants and observers, in the context of a hard Brexit, is whether […]
Report: Establishment of an E.U. Insurer in Another Member State: 12 July 2018
As the U.K. and E.U. continue to negotiate their relationship in the context of the U.K.’s impending withdrawal from the E.U. (“Brexit”) and as U.K. insurers with clients in the […]
Letter to Ministry of Justice: Clause 6 of the Withdrawal Bill: 19 March 2018
On the recommendation of members of the FMLC’s Advisory Group on Brexit, the FMLC wrote to the Ministry of Justice to draw attention to potential legal uncertainties arising from provisions […]
Report: U.K. Financial Services and the WTO after Brexit: 22 December 2017
Upon the U.K.’s withdrawal from the E.U., it is possible that the basis for the U.K.’s trade with the E.U. could take the form of: (1) U.K. membership of the […]
Letter to Ministry of Justice: Cross-Border Civil Judicial Cooperation: 23 November 2017
The FMLC sent a letter to Nic Turner at the Ministry of Justice concerning the publication of a Government policy paper entitled Providing a cross-border civil judicial cooperation framework: a […]
Private Equity Forum Conference: Brexit and Finance: 21 November 2017
Dr Perkins participated in a panel at the 7th Private Equity Forum Conference. She gave short remarks on certain legal and regulatory concerns arising in the context of Brexit, including […]
Journal Article: Benchmark Transition under the new E.U. Regulation: November 2017
Dr Perkins published an article entitled Benchmark transition under the new E.U. Regulation in the November edition of the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law. The article provided […]
Letter to Ministry of Justice: Responding to the Withdrawal Bill: 30 August 2017
Following the publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2017 (the “Withdrawal Bill”), the Ministry of Justice invited the FMLC to provide feedback. To this end, a letter was sent […]