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Banking and finance update: Supreme Court on force majeure, OFSI sanctions licensing, EU withholding tax reforms, ISDA DC review, High Street Rental Auctions, digital assets deadlines (16 May 2024)

Published on: 16 May 2024

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  • Sustainable finance and ESG round–up
  • UK and international sanctions
  • Tax issues for banking lawyers
  • Guarantees
  • Real estate finance
  • Sustainable finance
  • Derivatives
  • Daily and weekly news alerts
  • New and updated content
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Sustainable finance and ESG round–up

Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up

For an overview of this week’s Sustainable finance and ESG updates, see: Sustainable finance and ESG weekly round–up—16 May 2024.

UK and international sanctions

Supreme Court holds non-contractual performance did not constitute failure to exercise reasonable endeavours

RTI Ltd (Respondent) v MUR Shipping BV (Appellant) [2024] UKSC 18

This appeal considers how a force majeure provision should be interpreted in a shipping agreement between MUR Shipping BV (MUR) and RTI Ltd (RTI). A force majeure clause excuses a party from performing its contractual obligations when specified events occur that are outside the parties’ reasonable control (acts of God). Such provisions frequently include a ‘reasonable endeavours’ qualification, which prevents a party from relying on what would otherwise be a force majeure event if the impact could have been avoided by exercising reasonable endeavours...

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