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ISDA's Notices Hub: A solution for delivery of critical notices - a buy-side perspective Many market participants will have received the recent letter from ISDA asking for industry support for the ISDA Notices Hub – a project which aims to go a step further than re-thinking the delivery of notice provisions in the ISDA Master Agreement ... Employment Bulletin - May 2024 Topics covered in this bulletin: Dismissal and re-engagement: protective award uplift High Court considers whether non-solicitation and commission provisions were in restraint of trade Creation of new role with reduced responsibilities was breach of ... Global Investigations Bulletin (May 2024) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for May 2024 is now available. This month we discuss the FCA finally setting out its findings against Link Fund Solutions in the latest instalment of the Woodford saga. We also set out recent news in global invest... Financial Regulation group's banking and investment services column for Practical Law - May 2024 Our May 2024 column for Practical Law Financial Services subscribers on topical developments in the banking and investment services sector. Nick Bonsall, Selmin Hakki and Emily Bradley, from the Financial Regulation group, publish their latest column for... BLOG: Tax Disputes podcast - India In the fourth episode of our round the world Tax Disputes podcast series, we take you to India for a conversation with Mukesh Butani, founder and Managing Partner of BMR Legal Advocates, Sarah Osprey, tax partner and member of Saughter and May’s Tax Disp... M&A deals under the microscope In recent years, dealmakers have grappled with an increasingly interventionist and unpredictable regulatory environment for M&A. However, there are signs that the momentum of interventionism is beginning to change with calls from politicians to make m... Private capital's year of building momentum: Is the stage set for 2025? 2024 remained a challenging year for private equity fundraisings, investments and exits. Assets purchased in the era of cheap leverage and high multiples remained locked, with many auction processes failing to take off or being interrupted, while macro-ec... M&A health-check: will favourable conditions and regulatory easing drive M&A growth in 2025? 2024 was a mixed year for dealmaking, with deal values, if not volumes, increasing compared to 2023. Whilst private capital saw a moderate increase in activity, 2024 has been notable for the significant uptick in larger corporate-to-corporate activity in ... Private equity: the evolution of an industry Since the advent of the modern private equity industry in the early 1980s, private equity houses have traditionally adopted the classic model of a buyout fund, raising capital from a club of large institutional investors to fund acquisitions and drive gro... London calling Reports of the death of UK equity capital markets have been greatly exaggerated. While the London market certainly faces serious competition from overseas, the tide is turning on the City declinism of recent years amid a series of co-ordinated efforts fro...