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The Employment Rights Act 2025: Implications for the financial sector When the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, the government reaffirmed its commitment to the roadmap for implementation. Fast forward two months, and the first substantive set of reforms are now about to...
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ICO enforcement trends Cindy Knott, Rebecca Cousin and Richard Jeens discuss the ICO’s latest enforcement trends and what organisations should take from recent cyber and data privacy actions.
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Digital Infrastructure: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 2026 Digital infrastructure has emerged as one of the fastest-growing infrastructure asset classes, with record 2025 investment (driven by data centres and AI compute) expected to carry strong momentum into 2026 and beyond. In this edition of our Looking Back,...
  • Capital Flows
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EU Foreign Subsidies Regime The EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the FSR), which came into force in January 2023, is intended to address distortions in the EU internal market caused by foreign subsidies. It introduced a mandatory, suspensory regime for M&A (including joint...
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April action plan: the latest ERA 2025 reforms The upcoming reforms introduce a series of significant changes across union recognition, redundancy consultation, leave entitlements, sick pay and workplace protections.
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Timeline of recent and anticipated ESG developments in 2026 The UK continues its path towards significant legislation on sustainability disclosures, whilst revisions to many key pieces of EU legislation through the Omnibus process in 2025 have now been settled.
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From roadmap to reality: the ERA 2025 trade union measures taking effect this February When the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, the government reaffirmed its commitment to the roadmap for implementation. Fast forward two months, and the first substantive set of reforms are now about to...
  • Capital Flows
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M&A Outlook for 2026 2025 was a year of fluctuating momentum. Dampened confidence at the start of year gave way to cautious optimism and a willingness to press on with corporate deal activity despite market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.
  • Capital Flows
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The future of merger control As geopolitical tensions, industrial policy, and competitive pressures reshape global markets, merger control is undergoing recalibration across the EU, UK and US. Although the foundational principles remain steady, enforcement is being reshaped by...
  • Capital Flows
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Private equity – a more dynamic deal environment Private equity deal makers also faced a year of fluctuating momentum in 2025. The U.S. “liberation day” tariff announcements froze sentiment and pushed many Q2 transactions onto the back burner.
  • Capital Flows
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Financing in 2026 Debt markets were resilient in 2025. Strong issuer fundamentals met with a more accommodating economic backdrop to drive higher volumes and tighter spreads across almost all areas of financing.
  • Capital Flows
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Bright Spots in Real Estate Markets Against a backdrop of elevated geopolitical risk and tougher financial conditions, investment in traditional property sectors has stalled in the past few years both in terms of deal values and volumes.
  • Capital Flows
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The future of UK equity markets UK equity markets have entered a period of renewed optimism, bolstered by regulatory reforms, a rebound in IPO activity and a greater focus on increasing institutional and retail investment in UK equities.
  • Capital Flows
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Horizon Scanning 2026 Podcast Launch Series: Capital Flows In this episode, join Simon Nicholls and Aleezeh Liaqat as they kick off the Horizon Scanning series for 2026, exploring the forces shaping global investment and private equity.
  • Governance & Sustainability
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Sustainability reporting in 2026 The UK is preparing to hardwire the International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards into domestic regulation through the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS), joining over 30 other jurisdictions in...
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The New HQ The office sector is continuing to undergo a structural shift, generated by the changing ways offices are occupied in the post-pandemic and ESG-focused climate. 
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Trans-Atlantic Divergence in ESG agendas With 2026 now underway, we reflect on a year of significant global upheaval in the world of sustainability. After 2024’s plethora of elections, 2025 saw a raft of new legislatures and leaders pulling in very different directions, creating significant...
  • Governance & Sustainability
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UK Corporate Governance reform – the latest instalment(s) As we move through 2026, the UK landscape for corporate governance continues to evolve. Companies are under sustained – and, in many areas, heightened - pressure to uphold robust governance standards.
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Implementing the Employment Rights Act 2025 The Employment Rights Act 2025 (the Act), described by Prime Minister Kier Starmer as “the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation”, was one of 2025’s most controversial pieces of UK legislation. It contains a sweeping set of reforms to...
  • Governance & Sustainability
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Horizon Scanning 2026 Podcast Launch Series: Governance & Sustainability In this Governance and Sustainability launch episode of our Horizon Scanning 2026 series, Simon Nicholls and Richard Hilton explore the fast-evolving world of ESG regulation.
  • Energy Transition
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Geopolitics of the energy transition The global energy system is undergoing a reconstruction. For decades, an open, trade-friendly, market-based order underpinned integrated supply chains and converging energy prices. That order is now fragmenting into competing regional coalitions creating...
  • Energy Transition
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Harnessing headwinds As we head into 2026, there is continued demand for energy transition investments. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2025 reported that renewables met much of the 2% increase in total global energy demand in 2024, driven by rising...
  • Energy Transition
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Nuclear energy: a new atomic age? Nuclear energy’s resurgence has continued at pace over the past year. Around the world, policymakers, developers and investors are showing renewed interest in conventional nuclear power, whilst the race to commercialise small modular reactors (“SMRs”) and...
  • Energy Transition
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Horizon Scanning 2026 Podcast Launch Series: Energy Transition Join Simon Nicholls and Oly Moir as they explore the shifting landscape of the global energy transition in 2026.