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Claimants are finding novel ways to advance collective proceedings, including the increasingly popular collective proceedings regime in the Competition Appeal Tribunal ("CAT").  While this regime was introduced to facilitate competition law claims, claimant law firms are finding creative ways to use it for matters that do not appear, at first blush, to be "competition" related matters at all. 

Welcome to the second instalment in our series of short webinars looking at recent developments in the world of employment law.

Travelling. Seamlessly. podcast series

Travers Smith has written the UK chapters of the Practical Law and Chambers global outsourcing guides. The chapters cover the latest legal information and many of the key issues to consider on UK outsourcing.

On 18 November 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation on the text of proposed draft guidelines relating to the use of ESG or sustainability related terms in funds' names (the Draft Guidelines).

Episode 8 of the Real Estate bitesize series covers the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022, and the upcoming deadline of 31 January 2023 to register overseas entities on the new Register of Overseas Entities at Companies House.

The Government has confirmed that it will legislate in this Parliament to reform key aspects of UK competition and consumer protection law. There are reports that it is looking to bring these changes into force late next year – so businesses affected by it should start considering the implications now.

On 17 November 2022, the ICO revised its guidance on international transfers, created a new section on transfer risk assessments (TRA) and released a new TRA tool.  The new TRA tool can be used to undertake a transfer risk assessment, which is required where there's a restricted transfer of data outside the UK (not covered by UK "adequacy regulations") that relies upon an "appropriate safeguards" mechanism in Article 46 of the UK GDPR, such as standard contractual clauses.  

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Travers Smith Infrastructure newsletter.

Welcome to our series of short webinars looking at recent developments in the world of employment law.

Welcome to our series of short webinars looking at recent developments in the world of employment law.

This article was first published in Trust Law International (Bloomsbury Professional) at (2022) 3 TLI 103.

As COP27 drew to a close on the afternoon of Friday 18 November, following two weeks of the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, the first drafts of the COP27 agreement were published, but getting the deal finalised looked to be a difficult task.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

In this briefing we explore the risk that a lender might renege (voluntarily or involuntarily) on its funding commitments. We touch on the different types of lender entities in the market currently and examine why there are often different reasons behind such a failure to fund.

In our latest Tax. Simplified. podcast episode, Tax Senior Associate Kaleem Khan and Associate Lewis Currie consider, at a high level, how some of the tax rules interact with the world of football (sometimes in surprising ways).

Find the latest news, views and our analysis of all the key announcements.

In this podcast Jonathan Gilmour, Peter Hughes, John Lee and Adam Schnider consider the implications of the recent collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. They discuss some of the key issues that could arise from the insolvency of FTX or other crypto investment firms more generally, including priority of claims, proprietary rights in crypto-assets, tracing and recovery of crypto-assets, and cross-border insolvency issues.