Topic: Capital markets

The regulation and investigation teams reflect on the key trends and developments in 2023 for financial crime enforcement, and look ahead to 2024 to predict developments affecting organisations doing business in the UK will include.

Reflecting on our previous post on predictions for 2023 in UK investigations and financial crime and looking ahead to the second half of the year.

Discussing the latest decision in the Tulip Trading v van der Laan litigation.

As we enter a recession against the backdrop of ongoing geopolitical instability, we expect to see significant financial crime enforcement and investigations in 2023, including a focus on emerging areas such as ESG, cryptocurrencies, and significant developments in financial sanctions.

In Barclay-Watt v Alpha Panareti Public Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1169, the Court of Appeal has held that a director was not liable as an accessory to a company’s negligent advice.

Macquarie Bank Ltd v Phelan Energy Group Ltd [2022] EWHC 2616 (Comm) is the first English High Court judgment which directly considers the requirements for a notice of Failure to Pay under Section 5(a)(i) of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement to be valid.

In an historic first, the High Court has delivered a judgment on liability arising from a breach of s 90A and schedule 10A, Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, in the case of ACL Netherlands BV & Ors v Lynch & Anor [2022] EWHC 1178 (Ch).

Members of our Litigation and Derivatives teams have written an article discussing the impact of the judgment in Grant & Ors v FR Acquisitions Corporation and (Europe) Ltd & JFV Firth Rixson Inc [2022] EWHC 2532 (Ch) which offers important new guidance on when an Event of Default is ‘continuing’ under both the 1992 and 2002 versions of the ISDA Master Agreement.

Our financial insolvency and restructuring team have written an article on the recent Supreme Court judgment in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others [2022] UKSC 25, which looked at whether there is a common law duty on directors to act in the interests of creditors when a company faces insolvency, but is not yet in an insolvency process.

The latest post in our series covers the recent trends in the duration and resolution of English banking litigation, including an analysis of whether fraud cases are more or less likely to settle