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Insurance briefing HM Treasury has published two draft statutory instruments which will allow it to implement reforms to the risk margin and the matching adjustment ahead of other proposed reforms to UK Solvency II.
BLOG: Transfer pricing, permanent establishment and diverted profits tax reform The changes proposed by the UK government in its consultation on the reform of the transfer pricing, permanent establishment and diverted profits tax legislation are intended to ensure equal treatment between multinationals and other enterprises, simplify...
A testing time for UK financial regulation The past 9 months have seen turbulence stemming from the Truss-Kwarteng mini budget, a UK government debt market intervention by the Bank of England and rising interest rates, against the backdrop of questions about the UK's ability to thrive outside the...
HK CFA Clarifies Effect of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses on the Court's Insolvency Jurisdiction The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) has recently in Re Guy Kwok-Hung Lam  confirmed that, where a dispute in respect of a petition debt is subject to an exclusive jurisdiction clause (EJC), the Hong Kong court should generally hold the...
Employment Bulletin - June 2023 Topics covered in this bulletin: Withdrawal of check-off arrangement was breach of contract not accepted by employees New family leave rights and protections Guidance on responding to data subject access requests Horizon scanning
Tax and the City Review for June 2023 In their latest Tax and the City article, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider HMRC’s revised and expanded guidance on the loan relationships unallowable purpose test, noting that it is subject to change as some of the cases which it references are...
The next frontier: EU/UK competition law and labour markets Competition authorities are increasingly focusing their enforcement actions on labour market issues. Practices such as wage-fixing, no-poach and non-compete agreements, and the exchange of competitively sensitive information are coming under the...
EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - June 2023 Development's in this month's edition include: 
Corporate Update Bulletin - 15 June 2023 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates.
Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: European Commission adopts new horizontal block exemption Regulations and Guidelines On 1 June 2023, the Commission published its long-awaited revised Research and Development Block Exemption Regulation and revised Specialisation Block Exemption Regulation (together, HBERs), alongside revised Guidelines on horizontal cooperation. The...
Value for money: a changing retail investment landscape in the UK and the EU This briefing examines the developing regulatory landscape, looking specifically at the European Commission's recently published Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) that would require manufacturers and distributors of investment products to ensure that...
So Near, So FFAR - How Legal Challenges to FIFA's New Football Agent Regulations Are Playing Out In Europe As we get closer to its full implementation on 1 October 2023, this briefing looks at recent legal challenges in European courts against FIFA’s new Football Agent Regulations (FFAR), including the decision by a Dortmund court in May to stop the...
Green Securitisations in Europe: Fifty Shades of Green In this briefing we discuss a number of factors that result in the slower rate of adoption of ESG securitisation issuances in the UK and Europe.  
European Commission clarifies sustainability rules in revised horizontal guidelines On 1 June 2023, the European Commission published its long-awaited revised guidelines on horizontal cooperation along with revised Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations on R&D and Specialisation agreements.  This briefing focuses on the...
Water security and scarcity: rising up the political and corporate agenda Water security is a tier one issue for many societies and businesses, yet for years it has had a lot less attention than other sustainability-related issues, including greenhouse gas emissions reduction. The UN and the investment community are now...