By Alison Kirby-Harris and Matthew Conacher The Financial Reporting Council announced yesterday the closure of its investigation into...
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In an important new English Court of Appeal judgment in LBI EHF v Raiffeisen Bank International AG [2018] EWCA Civ 719 (11 April 2018),...
A Bill is passing through the House of Lords that would enable UK authorities to directly obtain data held overseas as part of their...
Gun-jumping relates to the pre-mature implementation of a transaction prior to obtaining clearance from the relevant competition...
The importance of open justice is well known and well respected; in the words of Lord Justice Toulson in R (on the application of...
Co-authored by Emma Rachmaninov The FCA has demonstrated in many of its highest profile enforcement actions its willingness to act when...
In recent years, there has been mounting criticism of the UK’s suspicious activity reporting (SAR) regime—voiced both by law enforcement...
Co-authored by Emma Rachmaninov Under new near final rules published this month, the senior managers regime (SMR) will apply to FCA...
On 8 June, I was privileged to participate in the first meeting of the "product liability formation" of the European Commission's new...
As part of its wider agreement on trade, the EU and Japan have agreed to recognise each other’s data protection regimes as equivalent,...
By Natalie Sheehan, Lee Rovinescu and Joep Wolfhagen A consultation process on the new draft Dutch model Bilateral Investment Treaty...
New EU rules which purport to clamp down on “aggressive tax planning” are set to impose a huge compliance burden on taxpayers and their...