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BLOG: Fuelling the energy transition: North Sea Oil & Gas, and Alternative Fuels The new Labour government has committed to ensuring a “phased and responsible transition” in the North Sea, the stated aim of which is to balance job protection while recognising oil and gas’s ongoing role in the UK’s energy mix. However, it has yet to...
BLOG: UK Water sector: A deluge of developments Amidst intense scrutiny of its financial stability, 2025 is shaping up to be transformative for the UK water sector as it navigates both a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and the need for "unprecedented levels of investment”.
BLOG: Carbon Markets: Momentum builds towards integrity and expansion 2024 ended on an optimistic note for carbon markets, with COP29 delivering long-awaited breakthroughs in negotiations to operationalise Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Negotiators reached consensus on the core elements needed to operationalise: (i)...
Tax and the City Review - January 2025 In their latest Tax and the City article, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider: the Court of Appeal’s decision in Refinitiv on the interaction of diverted profits tax and advance pricing agreements; the FTT’s decision in Syngenta applying the unallowable...
BLOG: Renewables: Doubling down on development Renewable energy development is set to accelerate further in 2025 as the government takes steps towards its ambitious decarbonisation targets and begins to implement the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (CP30). 
UK Energy and Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2025
Employment Bulletin - January 2025 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employers: What to expect in 2025; Employee who objected to TUPE transfer without electing to terminate contract treated as dismissed by transferor; Comments related to accent could be harassment; Redundancy priority...
Interpreting agreements to resolve disputes by arbitration or other methods In two recent cases, the High Court has considered complex dispute resolution clauses providing for arbitration alongside other dispute resolution mechanisms. Both cases provide a helpful reminder of the English courts’ readiness to uphold parties’...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin: 23 January 2025
Corporate Update Bulletin - 23 January 2025 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates.
Digital Infrastructure - Looking Back, Looking Ahead 2024 was a huge year of investment and innovation across the digital infrastructure space, and we saw an extremely busy year of transactional and advisory work throughout the sector. We also saw regulators continue to grapple with how best to regulate a...
Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: CMA consults on priorities for 2025/2026 as the DMCC Act comes into force Just over a month on from the launch of the new UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper on 14 October 2024, the Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Sarah Cardell, has set out how the CMA is rising to the challenge of...
Basel Endgame strays further from sight Following consultations with HM Treasury, on 17 January 2025 the Bank of England announced its decision to delay the implementation of Basel 3.1 by a year, pushing back the proposed effective date to 1 January 2027.
BLOG: FRC publishes a thematic review of mandatory climate-related financial disclosures by AIM-listed and large private companies Today, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) (the independent regulator for auditors, accountants and actuaries in the UK) published a thematic review of climate-related financial disclosures produced by AIM-listed and large private companies. The...
The Lens Newsletter - January 2025 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May.