Nov 30, 2022 Worklife 2.0: Employers of record – the sky is the limit? Part 2 – intellectual property By Alice Greenwell Giles Pratt Regina Erie Cameron Skinner Emily Darlow +2 more... Show less As we have discussed previously in the Worklife 2.0 series (see our previous blog post here), employers of Record (EoRs) allow companies...
Nov 30, 2022 Insurance, big data and AI – a match made in heaven? By Priti Lancaster George Swan Andy Robinson The big opportunity Harnessing big data and the power of artificial intelligence (AI) may be a match made in heaven for the insurance...
Nov 29, 2022 Market volatility - renegotiating lump sums in construction contracts By Sarah-Jane Fick Tom Hutchison Lump sum contracting, particularly on multi-year, complex projects, is inherently risky for contractors. The potential for profitability...
Nov 29, 2022 Litigation privilege revisited: has the Court of Appeal fundamentally changed the nature of litigation privilege? By Joaquin Terceño Christopher Robinson Tobias McKinnon The English Court of Appeal has recently handed down a significant decision on legal professional privilege (LPP), Loreley Financing v...
Nov 28, 2022 Netherlands Windfall Tax – Key Considerations By Stan Lemmen Eelco van der Stok On 1 November 2022, the Dutch State Secretary for Finance published a legislative proposal to introduce a temporary windfall tax on the...
Nov 24, 2022 Updated with CJEU clarification: public access to UBO registers across the EU ruled invalid By Silvia Van Dyck Eva Schneider Marcel Michaelis Jan Struckmann +1 more... Show less In the past years, the EU legislator has gone quite far in its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter terrorist financing (CTF) efforts....
Nov 24, 2022 The UK Steel Safeguards Saga Update: India’s retaliatory measures By Cara Carr Fabian Bickel Ioana-Virginia Motoc Introduction The controversy surrounding UK steel safeguards has taken yet another turn with India confirming that it will impose...
Nov 24, 2022 Recovering lost profits: Is Saudi law changing? By Amani Khalifa Amr Omran Lojayne Shaheen Muhammad Alshamkhi Ramzi Haddad Noha Elgendy +3 more... Show less Saudi Arabia is introducing major reforms to its legal system as part of Vision 2030. This includes modernising areas of commercial law...
Nov 23, 2022 Supply chain liability of directors and officers By Nicolas Rücker Moritz Becker Introduction This year’s demand letter to Shell’s board members by the NGO ClientEarth has drawn a lot of attention across corporate...
Nov 22, 2022 UK Government accelerates major reforms to competition and consumer law regimes and digital regulation in a drive for supply side growth By James Aitken Andrew Austin Sarah Jensen Rikki Haria Kate Collister Sarah Mitchell +3 more... Show less The UK government has committed to bringing forward the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill (the Bill) in the current...
Nov 18, 2022 How will the UK Autumn Statement 2022 affect your business? By Alison Dickie The UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered the much anticipated Autumn Statement 2022 following a period of political and economic...
Nov 17, 2022 OFAC Redesignates “Tornado Cash” as US Regulators Continue Targeting Virtual Currency By Timothy Howard Nabeel Yousef Brock Dahl Stephanie Brown Cripps Andrew Bulovsky Adam Silow +3 more... Show less On August 8, 2022, the US Treasury Department’s (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it designated the...