Pursuant to a statement published yesterday, Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services announced an extension to...

Today, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government’s fiscal plans for the immediate and near future. Amongst the tax...

The rush to regulate financial markets to produce ESG outcomes has brought focus to a problem: in the absence of good quality ESG data...

Back in December 2020, just before the end of the Brexit transition period which marked the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU's...

As free movement between the UK and the European Union ended on 31 December 2020, the UK Government is considering opening a new visa...

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) maintained that no additional UK value added tax (VAT) would be payable by owners of pleasure...

The financial trade press (e.g. see Financial News) is reporting that certain EU regulators have questioned the ability for a UK firm to...

The Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement did not specifically address financial services. However, the EU and the UK did commit to...

Covid-19 related amendments to the EU Securitisation Regulation

The European Parliament and the Council of the European adopted Regulation...

EU law – current law

EMIR, as amended by EMIR Refit, provides that certain pension scheme arrangements are temporarily exempt from the...

The rules relating to disputes with a European element have changed as a result of Brexit and the end of the UK’s transition period on 31...

The FCA has published the results of its review into UK asset managers’ implementation of the MiFID II product governance rules. The FCA...

Since 1 January 2021, EU trade marks have no longer been protected under the UK trade mark regime as a result of the UK leaving the EU....

The temporary marketing permissions regime (the TMPR) is now being used by many EEA-domiciled UCITS that, pre-Brexit, relied on a UCITS...

A new year and a new relationship between the UK and EU beckons as the transitional period finally ended on 31 December 2020. The new...

As part of the Brexit legislation published yesterday we now have The International Tax Enforcement (Disclosable Arrangements)...