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November 30, 2021

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Clara superfund open for business following Regulator approval

The UK Pensions Regulator (the Regulator) has today announced that Clara, a ‘superfund’ solution for UK defined benefit pension schemes,...

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November 29, 2021

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Tax matters podcast: Digital taxes and trade wars – will the OECD/G20 agreement bring tax peace?

In recent years, the US has watched the spread of unilateral digital taxes across the world with concern, seeing them as unfairly...

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November 26, 2021

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Eurozone banks told to do more to tackle climate change risks

When the ECB announced its Guide on climate-related and environmental risks in November 2020 together with 13 supervisory expectations on...

November 25, 2021

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Hot tax topics for the Industrial Sector: Revolutionary changes to the international tax framework

More than 130 countries have come to agreement on the largest overhaul of international tax rules in more than 100 years. Under the...

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Jon Gilbert Tom Hutchison Elizabeth Forster Alexia Millett

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November 25, 2021

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Extreme weather events and the risk of delay and disruption on construction projects

In our previous blog post, we considered how extreme weather events could give rise to an increase in the number of disputes on major...

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Priti Lancaster George Swan

November 24, 2021

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Insurance: adapting to the ESG framework and innovating to stay ahead

2021 has seen ESG become a priority topic for many insurers, who have already taken significant steps to commit to more ethical and...

November 22, 2021

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UK Verticals Reform: An Added Layer of Complexity for International Companies

Contrary to the traditional position in the US, the EU has long had a focus on the competitive effects of vertical agreements and...

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Alice Greenwell David Mendel Amy Rentell

November 22, 2021

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UK Investment Association sets out expectations for the 2022 AGM season

The Investment Association (the IA) publishes and periodically updates a set of principles on executive remuneration and long-term...

Nathalie Colin David Zygas

November 19, 2021

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Belgium’s ‘climate case’ – Klimaatzaak files an appeal to "force Belgium to act"

In a recent decision, the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels decided, at the request of the non-profit organisation...

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Jonas Levermann Andreas von Bonin Susanna Brintrup Clémence Coppin

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November 19, 2021

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EU COVID-19 Temporary Framework for State Aid: Sixth amendment

On 18 October 2021, the EU Commission published the sixth amendment to its Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the...

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Hazel Yin Ninette Dodoo Alastair Mordaunt Wenting Ge

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November 18, 2021

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China’s Anti-Monopoly Law 2.0: expect uptick in enforcement and higher fines

China’s National People’s Congress (the country's legislature) recently published a second round of amendments to the country’s...

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Daniel Gruenwald Eid-Daniel Jadon

November 15, 2021

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OFSI PUBLISHES ITS 2020/21 ANNUAL REVIEW – KEY TAKEAWAYS

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), which is responsible for implementing financial sanctions and issuing sanctions...

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Harriet Hanks

November 12, 2021

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ABPI urges UK government to use post-Brexit regulatory freedom to make UK attractive for life sciences

The shape which the UK’s life sciences regulatory regime will take post-Brexit is the subject of much anticipation (and trepidation in...

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Hannah Walker Gore Catherine Greenwood-Smith Anushi Amin Xanthia Hargreaves Alice Thompson Ethan Lo

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November 11, 2021

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UK Supreme Court rules representative action for group data protection claim was “doomed to fail”

The UK Supreme Court handed down a unanimous judgment yesterday in the high-profile Lloyd v Google case, ruling in Google’s favour that...

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Jon Gilbert Tom Hutchison Elizabeth Forster Alexia Millett

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November 11, 2021

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Asset resilience in the face of climate change: How extreme weather events may lead to disputes on major construction projects

In the first in a series of blog posts exploring the potential impacts of climate change and energy transition on global projects...

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Jamie Calvy Stefan Pislevik

November 10, 2021

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Will an employer’s acts of prevention nullify a liquidated damages clause and limit its recoverable damages?

Here, we consider the recent Singapore High Court judgment in Crescendas Bionics Pte Ltd v Jurong Primewide Pte Ltd [2021] SGHC 189.

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November 10, 2021

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New European crowdfunding regime: finally opening up to a truly European crowd?

More than six years after the European Commission outlined its proposals for building a capital markets union in its Green Paper, an...

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Kim Rosenberg Jamie Calvy

November 9, 2021

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Australian judicial approval of mining legislation designed to prevent arbitration: alternative legal avenues and wider implications

On 13 October 2021, the High Court of Australia handed down a pair of unanimous judgments in Palmer v Western Australia [2021] HCA 31 and

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November 4, 2021

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COP26 – What does it hold for the financial services sector?

Rishi Sunak, UK Chancellor, opened the third day of this conference with an ambitious commitment for the UK to have the world’s first net...

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Melanie Fitzsimons Michael Raffan James Smethurst

November 4, 2021

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Regulatory capital and climate change: a rewarding report

Just prior to the start of COP26, the PRA published a report which, amongst other things, explores the relationship between climate...

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November 3, 2021

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‘Sea-level rise: what are the implications for international law?’ – 2021 Freshfields Annual Public International Law Seminar

On Tuesday 26 October 2021, an audience of more than 120 government and private sector legal advisers, international law practitioners...

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Edward Buxton

November 3, 2021

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UK Autumn Budget 2021: More tweaks to DPT

The suite of policies announced by the Chancellor at the 2021 Autumn Budget was accompanied by a host of technical changes and...

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November 2, 2021

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DOJ Announces Significant Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes

Last week, in a virtual keynote address delivered at the American Bar Association’s Annual Conference on White Collar Crime, Deputy...

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