12/10/2025 6:25:17 PM New Economic Crime Bill: another stab at the £100bn dirty money problem By Lorna Emson Helen Harvey Matthew Pimley On 22 September, the UK Government introduced the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill). The Bill, the second...
12/10/2025 6:23:40 PM 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...
12/4/2025 11:54:07 AM Key takeaways from the CMA’s first round of SMS designations By Caja Griesenbach Greg Dowell Matthew Pimley Blaise Kingan +1 more... Show less The CMA’s designations of both Apple and Google as having “strategic market status” were a watershed moment for the regulation of digital...
5/20/2025 4:25:38 PM Drilling down on the details: CMA provisionally accepts complex Phase 1 remedies in Schlumberger/ChampionX merger By Foad Hoseinian Christophe Humpe Greg Dowell Matthew Pimley +1 more... Show less On 10 April 2025, the CMA announced that it had provisionally found that undertakings in lieu of reference (UILs) offered by Schlumberger...
4/4/2025 9:19:41 AM Brave new world? CMA reviews its approach to merger remedies By Matthew Pimley Greg Dowell On 12 March 2025, the CMA launched a formal review of its approach to merger remedies (the Review), examining “both process and how the...