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The UK Energy and Infrastructure Market: Reviewing 2021 and What’s to Come in 2022 To describe the pace of change in 2021 as dizzying is an understatement. Whilst changes to laws and policy in the UK energy and infrastructure sectors have been shaped by global issues such as decarbonisation, innovation, protectionism and resource scarci...

Insurance Outlook 2022 In this Insurance Outlook we look ahead to legal and regulatory developments likely to be of interest to insurers over the next 12 months, focussing on; changes to the prudential regime, recovery and resolution, climate change, the new consumer duty of ca...

Competition & Regulatory Newsletter (8 - 21 December 2021) In December 2021 the Competition and Markets Authority published two updated procedural guidance documents. The revisions alter the CMA’s penalty calculation methodology and remove the ability of settling parties to appeal against an infringeme...

Global Investigations Bulletin (December 2021) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for December 2021 is now available. This month, we discuss the UK framework for debarment from public contracts, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions. Recent Publications ...

Asset Management – Hot Topics, Winter 2021 Many of the themes discussed in our previous Spring 2021 edition remain relevant, and issues such as ESG and sustainability continue to dominate the sector. Welcome to the Winter 2021 edition of our Asset Management - Hot Topics series. Many of the ...

The Banking Litigation Law Review - United Kingdom Chapter - 5th Edition UK chapter of the fifth edition of The Banking Litigation Law Review which considers recent legal developments in banking litigation. Preface and UK chapter of the fifth edition of The Banking Litigation Law Review edited by Deborah Finkler which conside...

Intellectual property: Cross-border joint ventures In certain sectors, in particular in technology and life sciences, it is common for companies to combine forces in order to maximise business opportunities. A company may decide to contract out the research, development and exploitation of an invent...

Tax and the City Review for November 2021 In their latest Tax and the City article, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews provide an update on the measures relevant to financial institutions in the Autumn Budget and Finance Bill 2022 including bank taxation, the consultation on a re-domiciliation regime, div...

Divergence, Convergence and Challenges: Trends on GDPR Enforcement Across Europe and the UK A version of this article first appeared in the Privacy Law & Business UK Report, Issue 118 (November 2021) The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the "GDPR") in May 2018 was a dramatic step forward in emp...

Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 17 Selected legal and regulatory developments in data privacy for November 2021 Last week’s Lloyd v Google LLC decision marked the end of an era as the Supreme Court concluded the widely followed wrangle between the tech-giant and Richard Ll...