Oct 24, 2022 Is the New Economic Crime Bill tough enough? MPs level criticism at its second reading By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey Mollie Biggadike The introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) on 22 September 2022 was met with support by many legal...
Oct 20, 2022 EU reaches positive agreement on ELTIF reforms By Samuel Brooks Gavin Haran Tiffany Cox Negotiations have concluded between the European Council and the European Parliament on changes to the European Long Term Investment Fund...
Oct 20, 2022 No joy for UK investors just yet as immigration rule changes are published By Edward Reed The Home Office tends to serve up major changes to the Immigration Rules twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, with emergency measures...
Oct 18, 2022 Where to? Criminal liability for concealing data breaches By Neill Blundell Fred Snowball Francis Bond Uber’s former chief of security, Joe Sullivan, was found guilty recently of covering up a 2016 cyber-attack which affected 57m Uber...
Oct 14, 2022 Lessons from a Grandmaster: what can chess teach us about witness credibility? By Jacob Ward Sheila Dines Matthew Pimley It is unusual for chess to make front page news. World champion Magnus Carlsen went into the recent Sinquefield Cup with a 53-game...
Oct 13, 2022 The High Court sheds some light on "continuing" Events of Default under the ISDA Master Agreement By Alexander Coyne In a judgment handed down on Tuesday, Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE) [2022], the High Court shed some light on the...
Oct 13, 2022 Single Family Housing– where has it come from and where is it heading? By Nicole Mitchell The terms “SFR” (single family rental) and “SFH” (single family housing) have become common parlance in the European real estate...
Oct 13, 2022 Nature based climate solutions and the LSE’s Voluntary Carbon Market By Rachel Richardson Climate scientists now believe that there is a 50% probability of the earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees celsius above...
Oct 10, 2022 Tax incentives and the GloBE rules By Elizabeth Keeling What effect the Pillar Two rules will have on tax competition, and particularly what tax benefits jurisdictions will be able offer with a...
Oct 05, 2022 How should businesses respond to the recent IR35 announcement? By Philip Swinburn Nigel Doran Jeremy McCallum The recent announcement at the “mini-Budget” to reverse the changes to the IR35 rules bring the legislation back to where it was before 6...
Oct 04, 2022 UK announces further sanctions, including on legal services, in response to Russia’s illegal annexations By Neill Blundell Helen Harvey The UK government has announced further sanctions against Russia designed to target vulnerable sectors of the Russian economy. The...