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HM Treasury (HMT) has published a consultation document (the Condoc) containing proposals for the design of a new tax privileged regime for asset holding companies (AHCs) used in alternative fund structures (the Proposals).

With only 10 days to go until the end of the Brexit transition period, a trade deal with the EU continues to prove elusive.

Writing for Practical Law, Finance Partner Peter Hughes, Pensions Partner David James and Pensions Consultant Charlotte Feld consider negotiations between employers and DB pension scheme trustees against a backdrop of COVID-19.

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A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

Derivatives & Structured Products Partner, Jonathan Gilmour, and Pensions Partner, Andy Lewis, have jointly contributed to the recently published International Comparative Legal Guide on Environmental, Social & Governance Law 2021, with a chapter on the economic rationale behind ESG investment and the key challenges and opportunities which flow from ESG-related pensions law and regulation

A guide to future employment and immigration law. 

The FCA's first consultation paper on the new UK prudential regime for investment firms.

"Housing with care" is a type of retirement housing in which older people can receive the services, facilities and help that they need without losing their independence. 

Opportunities abound but beware of the pitfalls

We spoke with Stephen Carr, Group Commercial Director of Peel Ports, and discussed how Brexit and COVID-19 could reshape the "distribution map" of the UK and increase UK manufacturing activity. We also examined the opportunities and challenges of the UK Government's freeports proposal.

On 21 October 2020, the ICO published an updated version of its Right of Access guidance ("the Guidance"), which followed a period of consultation earlier this year.

In November 2020 the Supreme Court unanimously decided in Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45 that the housing association who had taken a transfer of housing from a developer, who had knowingly built in breach of a restrictive covenant, was not entitled to secure its release or modification under section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925. Despite the pressing need for affordable housing, the Court held that the developer should not be rewarded for presenting the Tribunal with a fait accompli.

This briefing was updated in February 2021. 

The end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 will make a difference to the way that the UK and EU merger control regimes work. Here's what you need to know:

This briefing was updated in February 2021.

What difference does the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 make to UK and EU competition law? And how likely is it that the UK will increasingly diverge from the EU in its approach to competition law?

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

We have partnered with the CBI and UCL to launch this year's London Business Survey, which canvasses views of nearly 200 of the capital's business leaders on topics including Brexit, Covid-19, sustainability, diversity and equality.  

Mahesh Varia has contributed the United Kingdom Chapter to the ninth edition of The Executive Remuneration Review.

With the end of the Brexit transition period fast approaching, as the UK enters a new era in charge of its own data protection regime, and with the Government's ambitious aspirations for a high tech, data-driven post-Brexit economy, in our recent webinar we looked at: