Apr 29, 2021 WorkLife 2.0: Whistleblowing Survey Report – UK data suggests decline in willingness to speak up By Holly Insley Chantelle Nicholas Rose Pollard Isolde Hill +1 more... Show less For the most recent in our series of whistleblowing reports, we collected the responses of over 2,500 individuals in the UK, the US,...
Apr 27, 2021 Paid leave for employees participating in May 4th regional elections in Madrid By Raquel Flórez Regional elections will be held in the Community of Madrid on 4 May. Spanish labour legislation includes the possibility for employees...
Apr 26, 2021 UK fintech - regulatory developments to watch out for By Claire Harrop Last week was a busy week for UK fintech nerds. UK Fintech Week 2021 was an action-packed event which took place entirely virtually....
Apr 26, 2021 Hong Kong Stock Exchange eyes further enhancements to CG Code: are issuers ready? By Wings Turkington Teresa Ko In a bid to further enhance corporate governance standards among listed companies in Hong Kong, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK)...
Apr 26, 2021 World IP Day – our take on patent trends and developments By Dr. Christopher Stothers Laura Whiting Wolrad Prinz Zu Waldeck Nina Bayerl Dr. Stephan Dorn Ben Cohen +3 more... Show less WIPO member states designated the 26th April as World IP Day, to commemorate the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in...
Apr 23, 2021 UK Jurisdiction Taskforce publishes groundbreaking Digital Dispute Resolution Rules By Roopa Mathews On 22 April 2021 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, published its Digital Dispute...
Apr 23, 2021 Exempt no more: the impact of the FCA’s IFPR consultations on exempt CAD firms By Emily Smith Lauren Moorin Melanie Fitzsimons Charlie Fisher +1 more... Show less On 19 April 2021, the FCA published its second consultation paper on the Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR). The IFPR closely...
Apr 23, 2021 WorkLife 2.0: workplace COVID testing and vaccination protocols in Europe – an update By Jean-Francois Gerard Rose Pollard Laura Llangozi Julia Förster Raquel Flórez +2 more... Show less Following on from our March blog post on workplace testing and vaccination protocols in Europe, below you will find a number of local and...
Apr 22, 2021 Davis v Lloyds: the closure of the final Court route to challenge the conduct of banks’ IRHP FCA reviews? By Lucy Clark The Court of Appeal has now closed another potential avenue for Interest Rate Hedging Product (IRHP) customers seeking to challenge the...
Apr 22, 2021 “Bridgegate’s” Shadow: US Department of Justice Asks Second Circuit to Reverse Insider Trading Conviction After Supreme Court Rules in Kelly v. US By Daniel Braun Kimberly Zelnick Mark Goldberg Earlier this month, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) filed an unusual appellate brief in which the...
Apr 21, 2021 The CMA is sending clear warning shots to UK directors as disqualification terms for infringements of competition law get longer By Daniel Wylde Sophie Tang Last month, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it had secured its lengthiest disqualifications yet, with two...
Apr 21, 2021 Dispute resolution in Russia: what you need to know By Alexey Yadykin Noah Rubins KC Dmitry Surikov International companies dealing with Russian projects tend to prefer to submit their disputes to fora outside the country, typically to...