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ICO enforcement trends Cindy Knott, Rebecca Cousin and Richard Jeens discuss the ICO’s latest enforcement trends and what organisations should take from recent cyber and data privacy actions.
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Digital Infrastructure: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 2026 Digital infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest-growing infrastructure asset classes, with record 2025 investment (driven by data centres and AI compute) expected to carry strong momentum into 2026 and beyond. In this edition of our Looking Back,...
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April action plan: the latest ERA 2025 reforms The upcoming reforms introduce a series of significant changes across union recognition, redundancy consultation, leave entitlements, sick pay and workplace protections.
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EU Foreign Subsidies Regime The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the FSR), which came into force in January 2023, is intended to address distortions in the EU internal market caused by foreign subsidies. It introduced a mandatory, suspensory regime for M&A (including joint...
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Timeline of recent and anticipated ESG developments in 2026 The UK continues its path towards significant legislation on sustainability disclosures, whilst revisions to many key pieces of EU legislation through the Omnibus process in 2025 have now been settled.
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From roadmap to reality: the ERA 2025 trade union measures taking effect this February When the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, the government reaffirmed its commitment to the roadmap for implementation. Fast forward two months, and the first substantive set of reforms are now about to...
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The enforcement landscape UK regulators and prosecuting authorities are signalling a decisive shift toward tougher enforcement in 2026. Armed with new legislative tools, advanced analytics and stronger penalties, authorities are creating a higher-risk environment for corporates....
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M&A Outlook for 2026 2025 was a year of fluctuating momentum. Dampened confidence at the start of year gave way to cautious optimism and a willingness to press on with corporate deal activity despite market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.
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Digital regulation: Navigating diverging paths Recent years have seen a proliferation of digital regulation. The (often overlapping) regimes emerging across the globe are creating an increasingly fragmented picture internationally, with that outlook further compounded by the impact of geopolitical...
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The future of merger control As geopolitical tensions, industrial policy, and competitive pressures reshape global markets, merger control is undergoing recalibration across the EU, UK and US. Although the foundational principles remain steady, enforcement is being reshaped by...
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Corporate criminal liability Since the Bribery Act in 2010, corporate criminal liability in the UK has continued to expand and that trend has accelerated in recent years. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) marked a major shift, introducing an expanded...
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AI update for 2026 As AI continues to transform the business landscape, staying ahead of legal developments in this space has never been more critical. Global regulation poses a particular challenge, with jurisdictions adopting divergent approaches amid fierce international...
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Private equity – a more dynamic deal environment Private equity deal makers also faced a year of fluctuating momentum in 2025. The U.S. “liberation day” tariff announcements froze sentiment and pushed many Q2 transactions onto the back burner.
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Dealmaking in AI infrastructure Investment in digital infrastructure has grown year-on-year since the turn of the century, but the recent AI revolution has catalysed exponential growth, driving M&A activity to an all-time high. We examine whether this is a bubble or a sustained boom...
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The activist agenda Shareholder activism remained firmly on the corporate agenda in 2025, with activists proving resilient despite market uncertainty. Reflecting wider market trends, it was a year of two halves as year-on-year activity levels were relatively subdued in the...
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Cyber lessons to take into 2026 As we start 2026, the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve at pace. Organisations are grappling with increasingly challenging attacks, while legislators respond with new frameworks designed to strengthen resilience and accountability. 
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Get smart: data portability is moving from concept to reality Data sharing is set to be turbocharged in the UK and EU through new schemes centred on customer-directed data portability. Ambition for these schemes is high, as drivers of competition, innovation and growth, including in the UK’s latest industrial...
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An inflexion point for litigation funding? Litigation funding has an important but contentious role at the heart of the civil justice system. The law has tolerated its growth because it can open up access to justice for people who could not otherwise afford it. For international investors, though,...
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UK and EU Shifts in Consumer Protection Consumer protection in the UK and Europe is entering a new era. In the UK, the enhanced regime introduced by the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA) is well underway, while in the EU the new Commission has released initial...
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Class actions in England and Wales 2026 Class actions continue to play a prominent role in the legal landscape of England and Wales. New trends are emerging across competition, securities and ESG litigation, reshaping both opportunities and challenges for stakeholders. This article explores the...
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Sustainability reporting in 2026 The UK is preparing to hardwire the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards into domestic regulation through the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), joining over 30 other jurisdictions in...
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The New HQ The office sector is continuing to undergo a structural shift, generated by the changing ways offices are occupied in the post-pandemic and ESG-focused climate. 
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Financing in 2026 Debt markets were resilient in 2025. Strong issuer fundamentals met with a more accommodating economic backdrop to drive higher volumes and tighter spreads across almost all areas of financing.
  • Energy Transition
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Geopolitics of the energy transition The global energy system is undergoing a reconstruction. For decades, an open, trade-friendly, market-based order underpinned integrated supply chains and converging energy prices. That order is now fragmenting into competing regional coalitions creating...