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21/09/2022
The new land­scape of European sanc­tions
Since the Rus­si­an in­va­sion of Ukraine on 24 Feb­ru­ary 2022 the law of sanc­tions has been trans­formed, with a sig­ni­fic­ant im­pact on repu­ta­tion­al, com­mer­cial and leg­al risks across many in­dus­tries.  Our...
01/09/2022
CMS strengthens Plan­ning of­fer­ing with key part­ner ap­point­ment
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is bol­ster­ing its Plan­ning prac­tice with the ap­point­ment of Dav­id Hardy as a part­ner in its Shef­field of­fice. Du­ally qual­i­fied as a bar­ris­ter and so­li­cit­or, Dav­id joins CMS...
01/09/2022
CMS bol­sters Fin­an­cial Ser­vices Trans­ac­tions team with part­ner hire in...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS is strength­en­ing its mar­ket lead­ing Fin­an­cial Ser­vices prac­tice with the ad­di­tion of new part­ner James Geer, who joins the Fin­an­cial Ser­vices Trans­ac­tions team in Lon­don. James...
01/09/2022
CMS bol­sters its TMT prac­tice with Sports and Me­dia Part­ner ap­point­ment
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has strengthened its Tech­no­logy, Me­dia and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions prac­tice with the ap­point­ment of new Sports and Me­dia Part­ner John Cloke, who will be join­ing the firm in Lon­don.John...
01/09/2022
CMS Ex­pert Guide on dis­crim­in­a­tion in the work­place in United King­dom
1. What are the main laws on dis­crim­in­a­tion in the work­place in your jur­is­dic­tion and what type of con­duct does it cov­er? The Equal­ity Act 2010 (the Act) gov­erns work­place dis­crim­in­a­tion law in the...
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31/08/2022
Ex­ec­ut­ive Re­mu­ner­a­tion and ESG
En­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial and gov­ernance (ESG) con­sid­er­a­tions are top of the agenda for many com­pan­ies today. While ESG seeps in­to all as­pects of busi­ness, ex­ec­ut­ive re­mu­ner­a­tion is one of the areas that...
31/08/2022
Ex­ec­ut­ive re­mu­ner­a­tion and ESG
En­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial and gov­ernance (ESG) con­sid­er­a­tions are top of the agenda for many com­pan­ies today. While ESG seeps in­to all as­pects of busi­ness, ex­ec­ut­ive re­mu­ner­a­tion is one of the areas that...
31/08/2022
Crit­ic­al Third Parties to the fin­an­cial ser­vices sec­tor dis­cus­sion pa­per...
Back­ground Fol­low­ing a re­cent Law-Now on this top­ic which fo­cused on HMT’s con­firm­a­tion that it will le­gis­late to per­mit fin­an­cial reg­u­lat­ors to dir­ectly over­see and su­per­vise (pre­vi­ously un­reg­u­lated)...
30/08/2022
Phar­ma­ceut­ic­al trade marks - a real pain in the bum?
An EU IPO Case Study: Proc­to­LYSY­AL v PRO­COTOL­IZ­IN Sum­mary I al­ways like to start at the end.  No nasty sur­prises and you know what to ex­pect.  In this case study, the trade marks ‘proc­to­LYSY­AL’...
30/08/2022
Post-pan­dem­ic de­vel­op­ment of Scot­tish civil justice con­tin­ues down di­git­al...
Over the last two years, we have writ­ten a num­ber of up­dates on ac­tu­al and pro­posed changes to how civil lit­ig­a­tion is con­duc­ted in the Scot­tish courts. Some of these changes have been promp­ted by the...
2022
CMS State Aid Group
CMS has a ded­ic­ated team of leg­al spe­cial­ists to ad­vise on State aid-re­lated mat­ters. Our State aid spe­cial­ist law­yers take a thor­ough ap­proach to leg­al de­tail and can also stand back and take a wider...
26/08/2022
High Court rules there is no im­munity to per­son­al in­jury claim arising...
Sum­mary The High Court has con­sidered the ap­plic­a­tion of the ex­cep­tion to state im­munity, con­tained in sec­tion 5 of the State Im­munity Act 1978 (“SIA”), in a per­son­al in­jury claim  com­menced by Mr...