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Employment Bulletin - February 2022 Dismissing and rehiring staff; right to payment for taken but unpaid leave; Cab driver using App was not a worker; not vicariously liable for injury  Topics covered in this bulletin: High Court prevents employer from dismissing and rehiring staff... Blog: Carpe Crypto Earlier this week, HMRC announced that it was the first UK law enforcement entity to seize an NFT. The turn of phrase struck me - how exactly does one go about seizing a cryptoasset? Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: Scania loses appeal against truck cartel fine On 2 February 2022 the EU General Court dismissed Scania’s appeal against a €880.52 million fine imposed by the European Commission for Scania’s participation in a cartel between truck manufacturers. The ruling represents a significant vi... The Intel Effect On 26 January 2022 the European General Court partially annulled a 2009 European Commission decision, in which the Commission found that Intel had abused its dominant position by implementing a strategy intended to exclude its competitors from the market ... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - February 2022 Developments in this month's edition include: Digital transformation - ECB publishes speech given by Pentti Hakkarainen on the digital transformation of the European banking sector SSM Regulation - ECB decision on transmission of supervisory infor... The Transfer Pricing Law Review - 5th edition - United Kingdom chapter Preface by Steve Edge and Dominic Robertson for the fifth edition of The Transfer Pricing Law Review. UK chapter by Steve Edge, Dominic Robertson and Tom Gilliver. Given their economic importance, transfer pricing rules will be high on the corporate tax ... The changing landscape of foreign investment review Recent years have seen a significant increase in countries equipping themselves with screening regimes in order to deal with the challenges brought about by foreign investment. The scope of investments subject to these regimes has also increased in many c... Illumina/Grail: All eyes on the General Court The Commission's new Article 22 policy comes before the European General Court   Last December the General Court heard Illumina’s appeal requesting annulment of the European Commission’s decision to accept jurisdiction in Illumina/G... Global Investigations Bulletin (February 2022) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for February 2022 is now available. This month, we discuss the evolving threat of regulatory investigations on environmental claims, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions. R... Privatisation: Recent Developments and Opportunities The last few years have seen a flurry of privatisations of Hong Kong listed companies, with a significant portion of them being conducted by way of scheme of arrangements. In this briefing, we highlight two recent legal developments relating to privatisat...