Adam Ferguson Blakemore

Proposals for a European Union Financial Transactions Tax
Adam Ferguson Blakemore,Oliver Iliffe, October 31, 2011
The proposals made by the EU Commission on 28 September 2011 regarding an EU directive on a common system of financial transaction taxation in the 27 Member States of the EU have been debated widely in the three weeks since they were presented. The presentation of the proposed Directive (the...

UK Corporate Tax Reform Update
Adam Ferguson Blakemore,Oliver Iliffe, September 22, 2011
While the UK Government’s blue-print for corporation tax reform was put forward in June 2010, key elements of the reform programme have become much clearer during the course of the Summer of 2011. The long awaited detailed and extensive consultation documents on the reform of the UK...

Regulatory Issues For European Funds: Updates on Synthetic ETFs and the Implementation of UCITS IV
Adam Ferguson Blakemore,Assia Damianova,Alix Prentice,Nick Shiren, June 21, 2011
A recent Financial Stability Board note (“Potential financial stability issues arising from recent trends in Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)”) has raised, not for the first time, the risks to investors supposedly inherent in synthetic ETFs and whether or not those risks require active...