Market abuse

The Market abuse concept encompasses all unlawful behaviour in the financial markets such as, insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation preventing market transparency.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• describe the basic principles of MAR;
• identify the main MAR principles and their impacts on the liability of the relevant professionals concerned;
• understand the MAR rules, risks and sanctions.

1. General presentation and enforcement
2. Inside information
3. Obligation to disclose inside information
4. MAR prohibitions
4.1. Insider dealing
4.2. Tipping off
4.3. Market manipulation
5. Obligation to notify
6. Sanctions

This training is coordinated by Cédric Raffoul, Partner in the banking and capital markets department of PwC Legal Luxembourg.

Cedric advises on all types of financing transactions, including secured and unsecured bank lending, acquisition and asset finance and has an extensive experience in securities law and capital markets regulation. He advises Luxembourg and foreign corporate clients and financial institutions on capital markets and financing transactions, including debt and equity transactions, initial public offerings, takeovers, placement of securities, buy-backs of securities, liability management transactions, listings and all related regulatory matters.