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The Lens Newsletter - November 2024 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May. AI in recruitment: ICO publishes recommendations The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published the outcomes from a number of... The Great Plastic Reckoning - How the Law and Geopolitics are Shaping the Future of Plastics The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee’s fifth session (‘INC-5’), held in Busan from 25 November to 1 December 2024, intended to inaugurate a new chapter in international environmental law. Convened by the UN, the session aimed to build upon the foun... 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 s... UK Energy and Infrastructure: What’s to come in 2025 Horizon Scanning 2025 Podcast Launch Series Hosted by our Director of Knowledge and Learning, Claire Marshall-Barrand, the launch series for 2025 offers five short episodes introducing this year’s major themes. Throughout the year, we’ll continue the conversation with in-depth episodes exploring em... ESG developments in 2025 Sustainability practitioners will be well aware that ESG is a fast-moving, and ever changing area, making keeping on top of developments a significant challenge. We have sought to set out key ESG developments expected in 2025, covering the UK and, at a hi... The Sustainability Omnibus – Streamlining Sustainability Regulation On 26 February 2025, the European Commission published its proposals for the first in a series of ‘omnibus’ packages, aimed at streamlining the EU’s sustainability and value chain due diligence legislation. The proposals hope to reduce sustainability... M&A deals under the microscope In recent years, dealmakers have grappled with an increasingly interventionist and unpredictable regulatory environment for M&A. However, there are signs that the momentum of interventionism is beginning to change with calls from politicians to make m... Private capital's year of building momentum: Is the stage set for 2025? 2024 remained a challenging year for private equity fundraisings, investments and exits. Assets purchased in the era of cheap leverage and high multiples remained locked, with many auction processes failing to take off or being interrupted, while macro-ec... M&A health-check: will favourable conditions and regulatory easing drive M&A growth in 2025? 2024 was a mixed year for dealmaking, with deal values, if not volumes, increasing compared to 2023. Whilst private capital saw a moderate increase in activity, 2024 has been notable for the significant uptick in larger corporate-to-corporate activity in ...