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Sustainability: the new driver of corporate decision making ESG considerations are now steering the agenda at board level, with companies and organisations factoring sustainability into key issues within corporate strategy. In this piece, we examine the lead up to this point, exploring the rise of sustainability...
Sustainability: the new driver of corporate decision making ESG considerations are now steering the agenda at board level, with companies and organisations factoring sustainability into key issues within corporate strategy. In this piece, we examine the lead up to this point, exploring the rise of sustainability...
Employment Bulletin - July 2022 Topics covered in this bulletin: Right of substitution did not prevent worker status Employment Tribunal decided that symptoms of long Covid were a disability Ill-health dismissal following unsatisfactory trial was disability...
Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: Political agreement reached on EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation On 30 June 2022 the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached provisional political agreement on a regulation to control foreign subsidies that distort the EU internal market. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation, or FSR, will directly...
The Legal 500: Litigation Comparative Guide - UK chapter The Legal 500: Litigation Country Comparative Guide aims to provide a country specific overview of litigation laws and regulations.
Acquisition Finance 2022 guide: Hong Kong Chapter A guide to the key aspects of acquisition finance in Hong Kong.
Acquisition Finance 2022 guide: UK chapter A guide to the key aspects of acquisition finance in the United Kingdom (England and Wales). This article includes recent market and legal developments, together with an overview of the debt structures typically used and documentation considerations under...
EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - July 2022 Developments in this month's edition include:
Balancing Security and Sustainability: Does the UK Energy Bill 2022 measure up? The long-awaited Energy Security Bill (the Bill) was laid before Parliament on 6 July. The Bill is a crucial piece of legislation for the UK’s energy transition ambitions and energy security, including powers to support technologies such as low...
Corporate Update Bulletin - 7 July 2022 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates.
BLOG: Restrictive immunity: codifying the UK's approach to taxing sovereign investors The doctrine of sovereign immunity is the international law principle that one sovereign State should not seek to apply its law to another sovereign State. In the UK, the application of that principle to the courts is governed by the State Immunity Act...
Insurance Newsletter - July 2022 In this newsletter we discuss: Regulatory reform and the insurance sector, Meeting customer needs – policy exclusions and target markets, Update on the EU review of the Solvency II Directive, and Trends in transactions.
Modernising Chinese Antitrust: What’s to come from the amended Anti-Monopoly Law Change is coming to antitrust law in China. After over two years of consideration and consultation, the Chinese legislature recently passed its first amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), with changes ranging from an updated merger control regime to...
Adding to the patchwork rather than wholesale revolution: the future of corporate criminal liability The Law Commission has published its long-awaited Options Paper for reforming the laws on corporate criminal liability for economic crimes. The ten options presented to the UK government represent gentle reform of the existing framework, rather than...
The Lens Newsletter - June 2022 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May.