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The EU competition rules on horizontal agreements Guide to the assessment of horizontal agreements (including the European Commission’s guidelines on horizontal cooperation and the block exemption regulations on research and development and specialisation agreements) This publication explains how ... The EU competition rules on vertical agreements Guide to the assessment of vertical agreements (including the European Commission's block exemption regulations on vertical agreements and motor vehicle distribution) This publication explains how the European competition rules are applied to "v... The EU competition rules on intellectual property licensing Overview of the application of EU competition rules to intellectual property licensing; focus on the EU block exemption for technology transfer agreements including accompanying Guidelines This publication is a guide to the European Commission’s Te... The EU rules on State aid Guide to the rules on State aid within the EU This publication provides an overview of the EU rules on State aid. First, it looks at the notion of State aid - in particular, the conditions that must be satisfied for there to be aid under the EU regime. I... The cautionary tale of Mr Bostan Khan On 30 April 2021 the Court of Appeal handed down its unanimous judgment in Bostan Khan v HMRC. As tax cases go, it is neither the biggest in terms of amounts of tax at stake (except, one assumes, from the perspective of poor Mr Khan) nor the most complex.... Our latest banking and investment services column for Practical Law In their column for April 2021, Ben, Nick and Selmin consider the FCA's stance on  breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, the Resolvability Assessment Framework (RAF) and the PRA’s recent Supervisory Statement on outsourcing and... M&A, Litigation and Regulation - Emerging Themes from the Premier Oil Restructuring The merger of Premier Oil plc (“Premier”) and Chrysaor Holdings Limited (“Chrysaor”) completed on 31 March 2021, with Premier’s shares being readmitted to trading the following day under the new name of Harbour Energy plc.&nb... The tide comes in: An update on the SFDR and the taxonomy regulation This briefing provides an update on the application of the SFDR and Taxonomy Regulation to asset managers, discussing latest regulatory developments, some of the issues arising from the regulations (including their application to UK and non-EU firms), and... Pensions Bulletin - April 2021 In this month’s Pensions Bulletin, we look at new guidance for employers and trustees on helping employees with pension options without the risk of contravening financial services legislation. We cover two ESG developments – the new clima... The 27-stop shop? The European Commission has accepted jurisdiction in a first test case for its new policy on Article 22 EUMR.  It will now accept – and indeed actively encourage – referral requests from EU Member States that do not have jurisdiction to r...