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BLOG: The Omnibus and the Compass: more details emerge of EU plans to simplify sustainability legislation On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘ A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’). While fairly high-level, it gives some early insights into what the EU’s much anticipated sustainability ‘omnibus'...
BLOG: Does antitrust law stand in the way of Net Zero Alliances? At the start of 2025, JP Morgan announced that it was exiting the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a UN- convened group of leading global banks - launched in April 2021 - to align their lending, investment and capital markets activities with net zero...
BLOG: The EU’s Gender Balance Directive: Balance in the Boardroom The recently transposed EU Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive (the Directive) will require large EU-listed companies to ensure that members of the “underrepresented sex” hold at least 40% of their non-executive director positions, and 33% of...
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The Trump Effect: US Foreign Tax Policy President Trump did not impose additional tariffs immediately after his inauguration. But among the executive orders that he signed on inauguration day is a firm rebuff of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework’s Two-Pillar Solution and the starting point for...
Pensions Essentials - January 2025 Pensions Essentials provides updates on pensions legislation, regulatory guidance, case law, tax changes, governance trends, and practical tips for trustees and sponsors.
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin: 30 January 2025
BLOG: Joint ventures does HMRC draft guidance bring clarity? HMRC published supplementary draft guidance on the Multinational Top-up Tax (MTT) and Domestic Top-up Tax (DTT) covering, among other things, joint ventures (JVs). Initial draft guidance in relation to the UK’s implementation of the OECD’s global minimum...
BLOG: Timeline of ESG Developments in 2025 Sustainability practitioners will be well aware that ESG is a fast-moving, and ever changing area, making keeping on top of developments a significant challenge. We have sought to set out key ESG developments expected in 2025, covering the UK and, at a...
BLOG: Fuelling the energy transition: North Sea Oil & Gas, and Alternative Fuels The new Labour government has committed to ensuring a “phased and responsible transition” in the North Sea, the stated aim of which is to balance job protection while recognising oil and gas’s ongoing role in the UK’s energy mix. However, it has yet to...
BLOG: UK Water sector: A deluge of developments Amidst intense scrutiny of its financial stability, 2025 is shaping up to be transformative for the UK water sector as it navigates both a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and the need for "unprecedented levels of investment”.
BLOG: Carbon Markets: Momentum builds towards integrity and expansion 2024 ended on an optimistic note for carbon markets, with COP29 delivering long-awaited breakthroughs in negotiations to operationalise Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Negotiators reached consensus on the core elements needed to operationalise: (i)...
BLOG: Renewables: Doubling down on development Renewable energy development is set to accelerate further in 2025 as the government takes steps towards its ambitious decarbonisation targets and begins to implement the Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (CP30). 
Tax and the City Review - January 2025 In their latest Tax and the City article, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider: the Court of Appeal’s decision in Refinitiv on the interaction of diverted profits tax and advance pricing agreements; the FTT’s decision in Syngenta applying the unallowable...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin: 23 January 2025