United Kingdom: Corporate/Commercial Law

David highlights how the market has faced sustained pressure from declining IPO activity, increased regulatory burden and growing competition from private capital.

The UK's new regime for public offers of securities and admissions to trading on capital markets came into effect on Monday, 19 January 2026.

This year's Corporate Debt and Treasury Survey was launched in early January, prior to the conflict in the Middle East, which has thrown global markets into turmoil. This was similar to the sequence of events last year where the survey was launched prior to so-called "Liberation Day".