As envisaged in its 2019/20 Business Plan, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to extend its financial crime...
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Last week, the OECD released a study on Corporate Anti-Corruption Compliance Drivers, Mechanisms, and Ideas for Change along with a panel...
Material adverse change (MAC) clauses are a tool for allocating to the seller the risk of something happening before closing that has, or...
An arbitral tribunal has unanimously held that India’s imposition of a US$2.7bn tax on Vodafone, which includes more than US$1bn in...
[Updated for the 'Winter Economy Plan' announced by the UK's finance minister (the Chancellor) on 24 September 2020] Governments around...
Brazilian companies have increasingly chosen arbitration as their preferred method for resolving domestic and international disputes. ...
Empresas brasileiras têm optado por resolver disputas nacionais e internacionais via arbitragem. Mais recentemente, os impactos...
The payments sector has come under increasing scrutiny globally. Most recently, in September 2020, the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)...
Speaking in Parliament this morning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the introduction from the beginning of November of a new...
The technology sector is increasingly in the crosshairs of foreign and domestic regulators. As is well known, the Trump administration...
On 25 August 2020, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published the Key Attributes Assessment Methodology for the Insurance Sector...
On 15 September 2020, the Netherlands government presented its planned tax measures for 2021 to the Dutch Parliament. We have outlined...