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EU publishes draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK The EU Commission has published two draft adequacy decisions for transfers of personal data to the UK, one under the GDPR and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. This will be welcome news to many UK and EU businesses grappling with the implicatio...

Private Enforcement of Competition Law in the UK Our guide to ‘Private Enforcement of Competition Law in the UK’ examines the key aspects of competition litigation before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the High Court of England and Wales. It has been recently updated, in particular t...

Pensions Bulletin - January 2021 In this month’s Pensions Bulletin, we report on developments in the ongoing scheme funding code consultation and on updated guidance from the Pensions Regulator on scheme returns. We analyse the implications of the end of the Brexit transition perio...

Insurance Outlook 2021 2020 was a year like no other in recent history and 2021 has started in a similar vein. From an insurance sector perspective, as well as dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, firms have been grappling with final preparations for Brexit, the pr...

Tax and the City Review for November 2020 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider, inter alia, the decisions in Blackrock and Total; and the UK’s approach to the export of financial services to the EU after the end of the Brexit transition period. The FTT in Blackrock finds in favour of the tax...

Pensions Bulletin - October 2020 Welcome to the October 2020 Pensions Bulletin from Slaughter and May. In this month’s edition, we analyse the Pensions Regulator’s guidance for employers and trustees on transfers to DB superfunds. We report on the Pension Protection...

Competition & Regulatory Newsletter CMA makes Article 9 request to review Virgin and O2 merger On 8 October 2020 the UK's CMA published a request under Article 9 of the EU Merger Regulation, requesting that the European Commission refer a proposed joint venture between Liberty Global p...

Pensions Bulletin - April 2020 COVID-19; Funding and Investment; Regulatory easements; Job Retention Scheme; DB Transfers; Pension Schemes Bill; GMP Data Rectification; Brexit Transition Period Topics covered in this bulletin: COVID-19 Refresher Funding and investment concerns Re...

Tax and the City Review for February 2020 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews look at the government’s post-Brexit ambitions for the financial services sector and at HMRC’s further guidance on the hybrid capital instruments rules and their statistics on DPT receipts. They also consider the UT d...

Chambers Global Practice Guide 2020: Corporate Tax: Introduction Steve Edge’s introduction as contributing editor covers, inter alia, Brexit, BEPS (transfer pricing, CFC and anti-hybrid changes in particular), US tax reform, and Pillars One and Two. In his introduction to this publication, Steve Edge contends th...