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Motor Finance Redress: The Way Ahead
On August 1, 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered its long-awaited judgment in Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited and on 3 August the FCA announced it would consult on a redress scheme.
Launch of Capital Markets Union (CMU) technical resource
Global | Publication | December 2015
Raising finance in Europe is changing. Our online technical resource ‘Capital Markets Union’ (CMU) is a complete client guide to the legal and practical measures that fall under the umbrella of the CMU.
The European Commission’s CMU initiative aims to unify capital markets across Europe’s 28 Member States in an effort to promote growth and investment. From now through 2019, the Commission will release a series of regulations and studies affecting every area of capital markets.
CMU will affect clients across the global with business interests in the European Union, including banks, funds, insurers, pensions, infrastructure projects, SMEs, credit rating agencies and multilateral development agencies.
The following resources will be updated as the CMU project develops:
- Prospectus Regulation proposal
- Private placements
- Venture capital
- SME finance
- Crowdfunding.
- Securitisation Regulation proposal
- STS securitisation practical guide
- Securitisation – risk retention Q&A
- Solvency II recalibration
- Infrastructure funds
- Non-bank lending
- Pensions
- Retail finance.
- Regulation of financial services
- Covered bonds
- Investment funds
- Derivatives, repos and securities lending
- Cross-border finance.
Recent publications
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Germany delivers landmark copyright ruling against OpenAI: What it means for AI and IP
The Regional Court of Munich (LG München I) has issued a landmark judgment in GEMA v OpenAI (Case No. 42 O 14139/24), holding that the use of copyrighted song lyrics for training generative AI models without a licence violates German copyright law.
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Clarifying charterers’ redelivery obligations under BARECON 2001: Songa Product and Chemical Tankers III AS v Kairos Shipping II LLC
Songa Product and Chemical Tankers III AS v Kairos Shipping II LLC [2025] EWCA Civ 1227 (07 October 2025) has clarified the extent of the obligation on the Charterer to redeliver a vessel following the termination of a Barecon 2001 charter and of the Owner’s right to require it to be redelivered to a port “convenient to them”.
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