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The Subsidy Control Act: What you need to know about the UK's new subsidy control regime The Subsidy Control Act 2022 will come into full effect on 4 January 2023. The UK Government has also published the final versions of the regulations defining the categories of subsidies that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will review. The ...

UK Financial Services - The Next Chapter In this briefing we summarise and examine the proposals published on 9 December 2022 referred to as the Edinburgh Reforms, including the HM Treasury policy statement on the approach to the repeal of financial services retained EU law. The Edinburgh refor...

Pensions Bulletin - December 2022 LDI crisis; The Pensions Regulator’s enforcement strategy; Pensions dashboards; Guidance on international transfers of data; rectification of pension increase provisions In this month’s Pensions Bulletin, we cover: A statement by the...

Tax and the City Review for November 2022 Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews discuss the VAT decisions of the CJEU in O Fundusz (sub-participation agreements) and of the Supreme Court in NHS Lothian (VAT recovery), HMRC’s Guidelines for Compliance, the OECD’s report on tax incentives and the U...

Solvency UK - Results of the Solvency II Review In this briefing note we discuss the results of HM Treasury's review of UK Solvency II, including key changes to the risk margin and the matching adjustment to release capital held by insurers and facilitate investment in long-term productive assets. ...

Banking Sector – Hot Topics, Autumn 2022 Welcome to the Autumn 2022 edition of our Banking sector – Hot Topics series. This edition discusses some of the key developments currently affecting the sector, including regulatory reform in the banking sector, which is focuses on achieving growth...

Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 20 In this issue: Regulator guidance, DPDI Reform, EU-US and UK-US transfers, ICO call for views on PETs, views from Australia, Data Protection and Privacy at Slaughter and May. The past few months have been turbulent ones with political and economic upheav...

The Legal 500: Blockchain Country Comparative Guide 2022 - UK chapter The Blockchain Country Comparative Guide aims to provide an overview of the law and practice of blockchain law across a variety of jurisdictions. This chapter relates to UK law. Blockchain Market Overview Please provide a high-level overview o...

Global Investigations Bulletin (October 2022) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for October 2022 is now available. This month, we analyse the recent sanctions enforcement action by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enfor...

Employment Bulletin - September 2022 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment law aspects of the Chancellor's "mini-Budget" No TUPE transfer where activities after insourcing were not the same Right to participate in share incentive plan transferred under TUPE Governme...