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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. Alliance Pharmaceuticals Limited on the carve out and subsequent disposal of its pharmaceutical division John Nevin John has considerable experience in a wide range of real estate work. Slaughter and May is advising Reckitt on its return of £1.6 billion to shareholders by way of special dividend ICO publishes new guidance on data subject access requests The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published updated guidance on data subject access requests (DSARs), reflecting both changes brought in by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUA Act) and recent case law developments. Timed to coincide with... High Court grants Getty permission to appeal copyright aspects of Gen AI claim The UK High Court has granted Getty Images permission to appeal certain aspects of the court’s findings in Getty’s copyright infringement claim against generative AI provider, Stability AI. Background As readers of this blog will know, on 4 November 2025,... Hotel La Tour Supreme Court decision: no VAT recovery on share sale deal fees The Supreme Court in Hotel La Tour has unanimously rejected the taxpayer’s appeal and determined that the input tax on deal fees connected with an exempt share sale is irrecoverable because of the direct and immediate link with the share sale. Hotel La... Lessons in online safety: Ofcom’s £1 million fine against AVS and end of year review Earlier this month, Ofcom published its most significant fine to date – a £1 million fine against adult website provider AVS Limited (AVS) in relation to age assurance failings. At the same time as announcing this fine, Ofcom released two papers analysing... EU proposes single-entry point for cyber incident reporting, but is it really “report once, share many”? As part of the recently announced Digital Omnibus simplification package (see our blog on that here), the European Commission plans to streamline cybersecurity and data incident reporting in the EU, by channelling incident notifications through a new... X fined €120m for breaches of EU Digital Services Act – including ‘deceptive’ blue ticks The European Commission has issued its first fine under the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), to X for breaches of transparency obligations under the Act. The breaches relate to X’s use of “deceptive” blue checkmarks, its failure to meet transparency...