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Competition Law in the Digital Age - February 2025 Our Competition Law in the Digital Age newsletter is intended to provide insights on modern-day competition law developments in a bite-sized format. This edition covers the future of EU competition policy, enforcement of the P2B Regulation, the UK’s Digit... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: Court of Justice rules that digital platforms can be required to ensure third-party interoperability, despite lack of “indispensability" On 25 February 2025, the European Court of Justice (CJ) delivered its ruling in the Android Auto case. The Court held that a dominant platform’s refusal to enable interoperability between its platform and a third-party app – where such interoperability wo... Employment Bulletin - March 2025 Topics covered in this bulletin: 12 month non-compete covenant; Dismissal because of Facebook posts; drivers were workers and backstop on holiday pay claims is unlawful; Time limit for discrimination claim Court grants injunction to enforce 12 month non-c... Executive Remuneration briefing The UK Government has published its proposed Companies (Directors’ Remuneration and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the Regulations). The purpose of the Regulations is to repeal most of the requirements relating to the directors’ remuneration ap... Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 27 In this issue: Legal updates, case law update, regulator guidance, enforcement overview, views from Switzerland, The Lens, and data privacy at Slaughter and May. Writing this newsletter in the spring sunshine, I have been reflecting on the fact that we ha... The end of an era? A transatlantic merger control retrospective With new administrations in place in the US, EU and UK, there are signs that global merger enforcement is heading for another watershed moment. While we wait to see what these changes mean for international merger control over the next few years, we took ... To run-on or buy-out: considerations for UK Defined Benefit schemes As part of Slaughter and May’s Horizon Scanning programme, we were delighted to host a panel discussion on 3 March 2025 on the case for running on defined benefit schemes versus buying-out with a bulk annuity insurer or, indeed, both.  Arguing the ca... The Legal 500: Securitisation Country Comparative Guide 2024 – UK Chapter Guy O'Keefe, Richard Jones, Oliver Wicker and Kate Patane provided an overview of the 2025 UK securitisation laws and regulations in the Legal 500 Securitisation Country Comparative Guide 2025. Guy O'Keefe, Richard Jones, Oliver Wicker, David Thomas and K... The Lens Newsletter - March 2025 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May. AI Act's new GPAI Code out… finally It’s late but finally here. The 3rd edition of the EU’s GPAI Code of Practice was originally expecte... The Lens Newsletter - February 2025 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May. Bank IT outages: Treasury Committee requests answers from banks and building societies The House of Commons Treasury Committee (the Comm...