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Tue 28 January 2025
9.00am - 10.00am
This session will take you through how the English courts will interpret your agreements, so you have the best chance of drafting them to ensure they mean what you want them to mean. We will also cover what arguments you may be able to make if the words appear to be against you. Finally, we will consider some of the limits to what you can achieve with words.
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Wed 29 January 2025
9.00am - 10.00am
Join lawyers from A&O Shearman's U.K. financial services regulatory team as they provide insights and predictions of key upcoming and expected legal and regulatory changes for U.K. firms during 2025. What does a new European Commission and (fairly) new European Parliament and UK government mean for financial services regulation in 2025? Will the competitive 'better regulation' agenda continue, or will governments pursue convergence and equivalencies?
In this, our annual financial services horizon scanning webinar, our regulatory lawyers will discuss the 2025 regulatory horizon for U.K. firms including the ongoing development of the U.K.’s ‘smarter regulatory framework’, the EU’s competitiveness agenda and forthcoming or expected changes in financial services regulation, across banking, securities, markets and payments sectors. What developments will 2025 bring and what should inhouse legal teams prepare for?
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Tue 11 February 2025
9.00am - 10.00am
This session will explore both the conventional and more creative ways that parties try to get out of an English law contract or obligation. This ranges from ways to escape the contract entirely (such as arguing a contract was never formed or that it has been terminated or can be rescinded) or just the consequences of a specific obligation or provision. In times of crisis, concepts such as force majeure, illegality and frustration are frequently considered but we will look at these issues, plus more, in ‘business as usual’ contexts.
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Mon 24 February 2025
9.00am - 10.00am
In this session we will explore the main trends we saw in the public M&A market in 2024 and what we expect for the year ahead.
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Tue 25 February 2025
9.30am - 10.00am
In this session we consider the limits of freedom of contract; what you can’t agree to and what you can’t enforce. We will cover the types of clauses – such as penalty clauses, exclusion clauses, and discretions - that often appear in commercial contracts but, if not well drafted, risk being unenforceable. We will also consider the wider statutory and public policy considerations that limit what you can agree to and enforce.
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Fri 28 February 2025
12.30pm - 1.30pm
Recent case law has considered the difference between contractual waiver and waiver by estoppel of a lender’s right to default interest under a loan agreement. It raises fundamental questions about the nature of variation, waiver and estoppel and their relationship with clauses designed to protect lenders from inadvertent modification of contract terms or waiver of their rights and remedies.
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