The Front Page, Asset Management & Investment Funds: Irish Practice Developments

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In Irish practice developments: Some Approaching Deadlines; Updated AIF Rulebook and Q&A; Updated UCITS Q&A; Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013 (Section 48(1)) (Investment Firms) Regulations 2017; Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016; a Central Bank consultation on Funding Levies for Credit Institutions, Investment Firms, Fund Services Providers and EEA insurers.

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Article 50 Timeline: What Happens Now?

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It is not possible to be precise because no Member State has ever left the EU. Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) has never been invoked before and there are at least 18 elections forecast across the EU over the next two years but a broad indicative timeline would include the following possible events...

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Triggering Article 50: Will it be forgotten?

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Vincent Power, Head of EU & Competition at A&L Goodbody was interviewed on Newstalk on 22nd March about the triggering of Article 50 on 29th March. He joined Vincent Wall on the Breakfast Business show and highlighted a combination of legal challenges, elections, an EU tradition of protracted negotiating processes, and even a possible referendum in Ireland as factors which can delay Brexit.

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Cartels and Leniency in Ireland 2017

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Dr Vincent Power, Head of A&L Goodbody's EU, Competition & Procurement Group, reviews the cartels and leniency regime in Ireland. First published in 'The Cartels and Leniency Review' (Fifth Edition) by Law Business Research.

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Proceedings Dismissed Where Plaintiff Purchased Right to Litigate

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In SPV Optimal Osus Limited -v- HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Ireland) Limited & Ors the Court of Appeal rejected an appeal of a High Court decision dismissing proceedings as being frivolous and vexatious and bound to fail on the basis that the proceedings against the defendants were contrary to public policy, void and unenforceable as a matter of law since the assignment of the right to liti

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