Sep 2019

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Are Irish Funds required to appoint audit committees?

Sep 2019

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ESMA liquidity stress testing guidance, EU equivalence, cross-border fund distribution, AML/CTF

Sep 2019

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Brexit update deadline, liquidity management expectations, CP86 review, UCITS and AIFM Regulations, Central Register of Beneficial Ownership GDPR breaches, National AML/CTF Risk Assessment, Market Abuse, Prospectus Regulation

Sep 2019

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A European Directive and Regulation on the cross-border distribution of funds (CBDF) came into force on 1 August 2019.

Aug 2019

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In spring 2019, AWG announced that it had contracted with technology solutions company Fexco to build, support and operate the the Global Aircraft Trading System (GATS) platform.

Aug 2019

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The EU Directive on Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements (Directive 2015/2302) was transposed into Irish law by the European Union (Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 80/2019) (the Irish Package Travel Regulations)

Aug 2019

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As we communicated in our article last month, the new EU Prospectus Regulation (the Regulation) has applied in full across the EU since 21 July 2019. At a domestic level, the European Union (Prospectus) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 380/2019) came into force on 21 July 2019 (the 2019 Regulations).

Aug 2019

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On 13 May 2019, the European Commission fined Anheuser-Busch InBev NV/SA (AB InBev) €200,409,000 for abusing the company’s dominance in the Belgian beer sector because the company relabelled one of its beer brands and also restricted supply of that brand so as to deter the cross-border sales of the brand within the EU

Aug 2019

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There is a great deal of commentary that a No-Deal Brexit (NDB) on 31 October 2019 is inevitable. While one cannot rule out the possibility, it is far from inevitable and definitely not a racing certainty.

Aug 2019

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In Cantrell v. Allied Irish Banks Plc [2019] IECA 217 the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal of a finding of the High Court that plaintiffs who allege they had been mis-sold an investment product were inside the limitation period to bring their claims.