Jul 06, 2023 Ratcheting regulatory interest in sustainability-linked loans By Jamie Macpherson Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made clear its concerns regarding the "greenwashing" potential of sustainability-linked loans...
Dec 20, 2022 Could Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) be about to bite? By Erin Gilliland Ellie Herve In 2015, the Government introduced the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) to look to drive improvements in the energy efficiency...
Dec 14, 2022 Will the Edinburgh Reforms make a difference? By Alexandra Green Michael Sholem Gavin Haran On 9 December, the Chancellor announced a package of over 30 reforms to the UK’s financial regulations, an attempt to achieve the biggest...
Nov 29, 2022 Transparency, but not at any cost By Dominic Sedghi In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
Nov 29, 2022 A new dawn for EU "substance" requirements? By Gavin Haran At the Irish Funds’ UK symposium on 24 November, the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI's) Derville Rowland made an ominous remark in her...
Nov 18, 2022 Autumn Statement 2022: full steam ahead for UK implementation of global minimum tax By Lucy Urwin The Chancellor has confirmed that the UK Government is to press ahead across the board with UK implementation of the new global minimum...
Nov 17, 2022 Autumn Statement 2022 – more tax but no major policy changes for private clients By Clare Wilson Following the economic turmoil resulting from Kwasi Kwarteng’s (now largely reversed) “Growth Plan” on 23 September, Jeremy Hunt was...
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 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...
Sep 27, 2022 New lease of life for Company Share Option Plans? By Rasmus Berglund Tom Ingham Part of the Chancellor’s “mini-Budget” on Friday 23 September included news that, from 6 April 2023, the longstanding limit on the value...
Sep 26, 2022 Bankers’ bonuses: the cap is scrapped By Tom Ingham As part of the Chancellor’s £45bn package of tax cuts set out in the “mini-Budget” on 23 September, it was announced that the "bankers’...
Sep 23, 2022 Reversal of changes to off-payroll worker rules (IR35) By Philip Swinburn The Chancellor announced this morning at the “mini-Budget” that the recent changes to the “off-payroll worker” rules (commonly referred...
Aug 18, 2022 Farewell Police Registration Certificates By Macfarlanes It has been an unusual feature of the UK immigration process that certain nationals (e.g. of Brazil, China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, UAE)...
Jul 27, 2022 DWP consults on new funding and investment regulations By Camilla Barry George Mitkov The Pension Schemes Act 2021 introduced new requirements for DB schemes to: develop a funding and investment strategy that ensures that...
Jul 21, 2022 L-Day: UK Pillar Two implementation marches on By Bezhan Salehy Tax enthusiasts will have plenty to read on the beach this summer following yesterday’s publication of the UK Government’s summary of...