Frances Burchall

Sep 16, 2024 | lexology.com | Sebastian Barling |Simon Toms |Joseph Kamyar |Frances Burchall

On 11 September 2024, the UK government introduced the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill, which provides that digital assets can be considered to be personal property under the laws of England and Wales, and could therefore be afforded the same legal protections as other, traditional categories of personal property. Digital assets include cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and carbon credits. The bill itself is very brief.

Aug 5, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Sebastian Barling |Frances Burchall |Joseph Kamyar

On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England published a discussion paper on its approach to innovation in money and payments (the Discussion Paper). A recurring theme is the Bank of England’s focus on the potential use of distributed ledger technology as a means of facilitating transactions in financial markets, whether that be through programmable ledgers, including tokenised deposits and stablecoins, or other methods.

Dec 18, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Frances Burchall |Bruce Embley |Adam Howard

In this update, we provide four predictions for the UK public M&A landscape in 2024, considering key statistics, trends, developments and highlights regarding UK public takeovers announced during 2023. Given that the UK public takeover market has remained subdued for a couple of years (in line with the global M&A market more generally), the hope is that deal activity will recover in 2024. 2023 has provided signs that this is possible.