Julia Dixon

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Kirkland partner Julia Dixon is an experienced financial services regulatory partner who advises clients on contentious regulatory investigations and proceedings, non-contentious advisory matters and transformational projects and transactions. Julia regularly advises on authorisation, licensing and permission requirements, the establishment of compliance programmes and arrangements for monitoring and testing, and regulatory issues and compliance with UK/EU regulation, including the promotion and marketing of financial products, conduct of business, conflicts of interest, client money and assets, market abuse and insider dealing.

Practice Area

Financial Services

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Contributing Author

Experience

Linklaters LLP (2007 - 2021)

Education

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (2009)
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (2006)
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (2005)

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PRACTICE NOTES

EU SFDR 2022 Regulatory Technical Standards: FAQs on Article 8/9 classification, PAI/PASI data and templates, periodic disclosures, Taxonomy alignment, exclusions, and non-EU AIFM entity-level obligations [Archived]

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. These Q&As respond to the most common queries on the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR) (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2020/852) regulatory technical standards (RTS). They address, among other areas, product categorisation; Article 8 features; principal adverse impact (PAI) data gathering; reliance on third-party information; human rights due diligence, and the effect on non-EU managers. On 6 April 2022, the Commission approved the final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that supplement the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU SFDR) (Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, as amended by the EU Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2020/852) together with the Annexes. EU SFDR imposes substantial environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure duties on asset managers promoting funds within the EU. The RTS set out compulsory website, pre-contractual and periodic reporting templates for financial market participants and relevant financial products. For further detail, see Commission publishes adopted RTS containing disclosure rules on sustainable investments under EU SFDR, LNB News 06/04/2022 92. Below we respond to several of the most frequently raised questions regarding EU SFDR, reflecting the final RTS adopted in 2022. Implementation of the EU SFDR has been carried out by...

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