Description
A Practitioner’s Guide to the Law and Regulation of Market Abuse covers all aspects of the law relating to market abuse in the United Kingdom. It examines the regulation of market abuse under the Financial Conduct Authority and explains the practical application of the market abuse regime in relation to specific industry areas including primary markets, mergers and acquisitions, listed companies, sales and trading, commodity derivatives and fund management.
Comprehensive as well as practical, it also considers market manipulation, unlawful disclosure of inside information and insider trading, and this third edition is fully updated to reflect all the changes in legislation post-Brexit.
New for this edition:
- Revised to reflect changes in legislation following the UK’s exit from the EU
- Examines the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it
- Covers the regulation of market abuse under the Financial Conduct Authority
- Updated to cover latest regulatory enforcement action
- Includes a new chapter on prevention and detection of market abuse
- Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Overview of market conduct regulation in the UK
- Chapter 2: When does the market abuse regime apply?
- Chapter 3 Insider trading
- Chapter 4: Unlawful disclosure of inside information
- Chapter 5: Overview of market manipulation
- Chapter 6: Market manipulation: manipulating transactions and other conduct
- Chapter 7: Market manipulation: misleading statements
- Chapter 8: Practical application: Capital markets
- Chapter 9: Practical application: M&A transactions
- Chapter 10: Practical application: listed companies
- Chapter 11: Practical application: Sales and trading
- Chapter 12: Practical application: Commodity derivatives
- Chapter 13: Practical application: Fund management
- Chapter 14: Practical application: Research
- Chapter 15: Prevention and detection of market abuse
