Finance Law and Banking Law

A Court of Appeal case examines whether financial services regulations or property law principles take precedence when a sale and rent back agreement violates the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The dispute centered on whether innocent parties could recover property transferred to third parties after the original transaction breached regulatory requirements.

As debt financing increasingly recognizes the value of intangible assets, companies must strategically prepare their intellectual property portfolios to meet lender expectations.

Businesses undergoing strategic change face unique challenges when seeking debt financing, as lenders grapple with uncertainty around unproven revenue streams and unfamiliar markets.

Islamic finance has firmly outgrown its historical perception as a regional niche. With global assets estimated at US$5.98tn in 2024...

The UK government has announced significant reforms to the Consumer Credit Act 1974, scrapping the phase two consultation and moving forward with changes that will remove automatic unenforceability sanctions while shifting many prescriptive requirements from statute to FCA rules.

You'll find the answer to this question in a recent episode of ‘The Long-Short' podcast, produced by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), featuring Jersey Finance's Head of Funds, Elliot Refson.

Members of our structured finance team, including Priya Taneja, Stuart Axford, Martin Sharkey, Giacomo Bertolissi and Amber Chak, attended Global ABS 2026 in Barcelona.

The European Union's Listing Act package has introduced its final wave of changes to the Prospectus Regulation, fundamentally reshaping how debt capital markets participants must structure and present offering documents. These reforms include mandatory sequencing requirements, consolidated disclosure annexes, and new ESG-specific disclosure obligations that will affect issuers, underwriters, and legal advisors across EU regulated markets.

The UK is undertaking a significant overhaul of its securitisation regime, moving from prescriptive rules to a principles-based framework that would ease investor verification burdens, simplify transparency requirements, and introduce targeted exemptions. The proposed reforms by the FCA and PRA aim to reduce compliance costs and provide greater flexibility for UK investors, though they may increase divergence from EU securitisation rules and complicate cross-border transactions.

This Article explores the reform of the UK Money Market Fund Regulation (“MMFR”) and what it means for money market funds (“MMFs”) and managers.

Our team will be attending both the conference and a series of meetings around it, and we look forward to connecting with clients, contacts and others across the fund finance market.

Foundry Partners launches the Fund Foundry, the Crown Dependencies' first structured support programme for emerging fund managers, offering five annual places with £25,000 service vouchers, regulatory fast-tracking through Guernsey's established framework, and dedicated mentorship from experienced GPs.