Dec 23, 2021 What are the key business tax measures in the German ‘traffic light’ coalition agreement? By Alison Dickie The results of the German federal election in September this year provided the Social Democrat Party with a narrow victory and both the...
Dec 21, 2021 Landmark FCA criminal conviction under the MLR 2007 against NatWest By Christopher Robinson Ali Sallaway Eloise Cartwright On 13 December 2021 NatWest was fined £264 million for breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 (MLR 2007). NatWest had...
Dec 21, 2021 Wholesale Markets Review: an enhanced, tailor-made regime for UK markets By Elisabeth Overland This article considers the principal proposals included in HM Treasury’s consultation on wholesale markets regulation – the Wholesale...
Dec 20, 2021 Reforms of the German voluntary deposit protection scheme on the horizon By Alexander Glos Jan Struckmann On 8 December 2021, the Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken – “BdB”) issued a statement that it had resolved to...
Dec 20, 2021 Corporate human rights responsibility under International Criminal Law – Reaching the apex of business and human rights developments By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Picking up the most recent developments in France, Germany and the Netherlands, this blog post discusses the emergence of International...
Dec 20, 2021 Whose copyright is it anyway? UK Court of Appeal hands down guidance on employee-generated IP ownership By Taybah Siddiqi Hannah Family The UK Court of Appeal has issued a judgment on the ownership of copyright in works created by an employee in the course of his...
Dec 17, 2021 Singapore’s Technology, Infrastructure and Construction List – a new global forum for the resolution of major project disputes? By Jon Gilbert Gabriel Wang The Singapore International Commercial Court (“SICC”) recently announced the creation of a specialised Technology, Infrastructure and...
Dec 16, 2021 Hot Tax Topics for the Industrial sector: ESG and the EU’s environmental tax measures By Georg Roderburg Brin Rajathurai The tax world is changing rapidly, with major developments around the taxation of multinationals and a growing number of initiatives...
Dec 16, 2021 Whistleblowing in the EU, what now ? By Jean-Francois Gerard Holly Insley Thomas Granetzny Amy Rentell Laura Llangozi +2 more... Show less Friday 17 December is an important date for speak-up culture and whistleblowers in Europe. It marks the deadline for Member States to...
Dec 15, 2021 New Consumer Duty to be introduced to shift mindset of UK financial services firms By Anthea Bowater Piers Reynolds Christine Simpson In May this year we reported on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) initial proposals for a Consumer Duty for financial services...
Dec 14, 2021 Amazon fined €1.1bn in Italy for abuse of dominant position By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Luca Casiraghi On 9 December the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) hit Amazon with a record fine of €1.1 bn for abuse of dominant position in the...
Dec 14, 2021 Compliance and ringleaders: German FCO’s new guidelines on leniency and antitrust fines By Dominic Divivier Ole Schley Recently, for the first time in nearly a decade, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) revamped its guidelines on calculating antitrust...