10/24/2022 11:22:35 AM Is the New Economic Crime Bill tough enough? MPs level criticism at its second reading By 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...
10/20/2022 1:44:07 PM EU reaches positive agreement on ELTIF reforms By Tiffany Cox Lora Froud Negotiations have concluded between the European Council and the European Parliament on changes to the European Long Term Investment Fund...
10/20/2022 1:04:29 PM 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...
10/18/2022 1:21:02 PM Where to? Criminal liability for concealing data breaches By 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...
10/14/2022 2:27:02 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...
10/13/2022 3:18:42 PM The High Court sheds some light on "continuing" Events of Default under the ISDA Master Agreement By Macfarlanes In a judgment handed down on Tuesday, Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE) [2022], the High Court shed some light on the...
10/13/2022 2:45:58 PM Single Family Housing – where has it come from and where is it heading? By Macfarlanes The terms “SFR” (single family rental) and “SFH” (single family housing) have become common parlance in the European real estate...
10/13/2022 9:42:20 AM 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...
10/10/2022 12:55:05 PM 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...
10/5/2022 1:08:14 PM How should businesses respond to the recent IR35 announcement? By Nigel Doran 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...
10/4/2022 9:11:35 AM UK announces further sanctions, including on legal services, in response to Russia’s illegal annexations By Helen Harvey The UK government has announced further sanctions against Russia designed to target vulnerable sectors of the Russian economy. The...