Market Abuse Regulation is effective from July 2016.
One of the most important provisions for ensuring effective securities markets is the mandated, continuous disclosure of non-public material information (insider information). Yet this disclosure obligation is also onerous for issuers, involving high compliance costs and subjecting them to public scrutiny that private companies avoid.
In EU law, the concept of inside information has been used in two different but related measures: to prevent insider dealing and to mandate public disclosure. Consequently, how inside information is defined matters significantly to both measures. Professor Jesper Lau Hansen's paper tries to define what constitutes inside information and to answer the question of when an issuer must disclose such information according to the Market Abuse Regulation that is effective from 3 July 2016.
Read Professor Jesper Lau Hansen's paper, Say When: When Must an Issuer Disclose Inside Information? (June 01, 2016). Nordic & European Company Law Working Paper No. 16-03. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2795993
