The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt across the global business community.
In the second Travers Smith tax podcast on the new Uncertain Tax Treatment rules, Tax Partner Simon Skinner and Tax Senior Associate Hugh Brooks discuss what an "uncertain tax treatment" will include. The first in the series, an introduction to the rules, can be found here.
The UK Government has announced plans for a "Brexit Freedoms" Bill which would make it easier to change retained EU law. It is also considering a series of other measures with implications for retained EU law.
France's data protection regulator (the CNIL) has imposed hefty fines on Google (€150m) and Facebook (€60m) for making it more difficult for users in France to reject cookies than to accept them. The companies also face penalties of €100,000 per day of delay if they fail to simplify the reject mechanism within 3 months.
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Welcome to the sixth edition of our quarterly disputes newsletter, which covers key developments in the dispute resolution world over the last three months or so.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Peter Hughes and Joseph Wren and Vanessa Kalijnikoff Battaglia have co-authored a chapter in the GLI - Fund Finance 2022 publication highlighting the key structural and documentary legal issues that should be considered by a private capital manager thinking about entering into derivatives transactions at fund level.
Danny Peel, Katie McMenamin and Jamie Parish have co-authored a chapter in the GLI - Fund Finance 2022 publication highlighting the new liquidity solutions available for alternative asset fund managers.
In our latest Travers Smith tax podcast (the first in a series of two on this topic), Tax Partner Simon Skinner and Tax Senior Associate Hugh Brooks introduce the new rules relating to uncertain tax treatment following the latest draft HMRC guidance released on 18 January 2022.
In this episode, Technology & Commercial Transactions Senior Associate, Mike Cuthbertson, discusses the topic of "greenwashing" in a consumer-facing context: what it is, why it should be on your radar and practical steps you can take to avoid it becoming a problem.
Video series
In this video series, we will be taking a look at where we are in the Brexit process, one year on from the end of the transition period and the UK's effective exit from the European Union.
In this episode, Senior Counsel Ailie Murray and Associate Tom Hunt take a look at a variety of topics and cases relating to diversity and inclusion. The inequalities in society continue to be highlighted by the pandemic and there have been a number of recent changes in this area, making it a key priority for many businesses.
The long-awaited Environment Act was finally passed into law in November 2021, nearly three years after a bill was first proposed to govern environmental matters after the UK's departure from the EU. The Act's passage was accompanied by a degree of fanfare, with ministers describing it as "the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth".
Key employment and business immigration developments for employers.
Since the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020, the UK's merger control regime was untangled from the EU's one-stop shop, and has therefore operated as a standalone merger control regime in parallel to the EU. 12 months on, we have outlined 6 key trends in UK merger control below, and the impact of those trends for corporate transactions.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
The EU Commission has published a draft directive (ATAD 3) designed to tackle misuse of "shell entities". Essentially, these are entities resident in EU member states that do not have sufficient substance.
Pensions Partner David James and Pensions trainee Emily Collett comment on the latest Government's efforts to enable trustees of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes to access illiquid markets.