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Enhancing climate-related disclosures by asset managers and asset owners The FCA has now published a consultation on introducing climate-related disclosures for asset managers and asset owners, including life insurers, alongside a consultation on extending the Listing Rules disclosure requirements to standard-listed commercial... COVID-19: Availability of landlord remedies for unpaid rent Measures first announced at the start of the initial lockdown in 2020 to protect tenants from enforcement action in relation to unpaid rent have once again been extended. Some measures will remain in place until 25 March 2022. The Government has also anno... COVID-19 protections for commercial tenants - is Government intervention here to stay? Following our briefing issued last week, 16 June 2021, the Government has announced its plans to extend protections for commercial tenants, ring-fence arrears accrued during lockdown and require arbitration for tenants and landlords who cannot agree on ho... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter (9 - 22 June 2021) European Commission publishes initial findings in Internet of Things sector inquiry European Commission publishes initial findings in Internet of Things sector inquiry On 9 June 2021 the European Commission published its preliminary findings in its sect... Tax and the City Review for June 2021 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider Ramsay cases Hurstwood and Bostan Khan; Dodika on tax covenant claims; and the European Commission’s communication on Business Taxation for 21st Century. The Ramsay principles of statutory construction are applied... Stamp duty goes officially online - finally! HMRC's press release heralds the decommissioning of the stamp duty press machines as the "end of an era" as the 300-year old process of manually stamping documents to evidence that the required transfer tax has been paid is (officially)... European Commission publishes its inception impact assessment on horizontal block exemptions and guidelines On 7 June 2021 the European Commission published its inception impact assessment proposing policy options to update the: (i) R&D block exemption regulation; (ii) specialisation block exemption regulation; and (iii) guidelines on horizontal cooperation... Is the G7’s agreement on international tax reform really “seismic”, or is it too soon to tell? Before the G7 Finance Ministers’ communiqué of 5 June announcing an agreement in principle (which was endorsed by the G7 leaders according to their communiqué of 13 June), the biggest news in international tax had been a renewed engage... The International Comparative Legal Guide to Fintech 2021 Fintech Partners Ben Kingsley and Rob Sumroy and Professional Support Lawyers Natalie Donovan and Selmin Hakki provide corporate counsel and international practitioners with an overview of the UK legal and regulatory landscape for fintech.    T... The International Comparative Legal Guide to Fintech 2021 - Hong Kong Chapter Partner Peter Lake and Counsel Mike Ringer provide corporate counsel and international practitioners with an overview of the Hong Kong legal and regulatory landscape for fintech.    This chapter is from The International Comparative Legal ...