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07/06/2023
Mod­ern Slavery: a key ele­ment of the ‘S’ in ESG
Re­cent head­lines re­lat­ing to the ab­use of mi­grant care work­ers and the use of slave la­bour in the pro­duc­tion of PPE are some ex­amples of how the Life sci­ences & Health­care sec­tor is at risk of mod­ern slavery is­sues. The key ex­pos­ure for busi­nesses is cur­rently repu­ta­tion­al dam­age but plans by the gov­ern­ment to tight­en the rules on the con­tent of mod­ern slavery state­ments, the pro­posed cre­ation of a new en­force­ment re­gime and in­creas­ing le­gis­la­tion re­lat­ing to hu­man rights re­port­ing, are push­ing this is­sue up the agenda. In this art­icle we con­sider the cur­rent status of the law on mod­ern slavery and what is com­ing down the track for Life Sci­ences & Health­care com­pan­ies to be aware of.
29/06/2023
Keep­ing it secret
Our Me­dia Lit­ig­a­tion Toolkit Series is back to provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing dis­cus­sion of the de­vel­op­ments over the past year.In the di­git­al age, in­form­a­tion...
06/07/2023
Repu­ta­tion Man­age­ment
Our Me­dia Lit­ig­a­tion Toolkit Series is back to provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing dis­cus­sion of the de­vel­op­ments over the past year.In the di­git­al age, in­form­a­tion...
13/07/2023
Me­dia lit­ig­a­tion in the In­ter­net age
Our Me­dia Lit­ig­a­tion Toolkit Series is back to provide a prac­tic­al re­fresh­er of the key top­ics in this area, in­clud­ing dis­cus­sion of the de­vel­op­ments over the past year.In the di­git­al age, in­form­a­tion...
06/06/2023
Lim­it­a­tion peri­ods in fraud claims: Court of Ap­peal cla­ri­fic­a­tion
In­tro­duc­tionThe Court of Ap­peal (“CA”) has re­cently con­sidered the ap­plic­a­tion of s.32(1)(a) of the Lim­it­a­tion Act 1980 (“LA 1980”) which provides that where an ac­tion is based on the fraud of...
06/06/2023
The UK’s new di­git­al re­gime reg­u­lat­ing firms with “stra­tegic mar­ket status”:...
This is the second in a series of art­icles ana­lys­ing spe­cif­ic fea­tures of the di­git­al and com­pet­i­tion re­forms con­tained in the re­cently pub­lished Di­git­al Mar­kets, Com­pet­i­tion and Con­sumers Bill (the Bill)...
06/06/2023
The European Com­mis­sion in­vest­ig­ates the pro­ject of ac­quis­i­tion of Asi­ana...
Korean Air­lines no­ti­fied the European Com­mis­sion of its pro­posed ac­quis­i­tion of Asi­ana Air­lines on 13 Janu­ary 2023. On 17 Feb­ru­ary 2023, the Com­mis­sion opened an in-depth in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to the pro­posed...
06/06/2023
CMS Pen­sions Brief­ing DC Schemes and Mas­ter Trusts - June 2023
Wel­come to our reg­u­lar brief­ing on top­ic­al is­sues fa­cing defined con­tri­bu­tion (DC) pen­sion ar­range­ments, in­clud­ing DC Mas­ter Trusts. In this brief­ing we take a look at how the DC mar­ket is evolving as...
06/06/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to Crypto Reg­u­la­tion in United King­dom
1. How is crypto reg­u­lated? 2. Are the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies reg­u­lated or un­reg­u­lated in your jur­is­dic­tion? ― Ex­change (buy/sell) ― Cus­tody (hold) ― Bor­row­ing/lend­ing ― Yield/stak­ing There...
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05/06/2023
In­terest Cov­er Ra­tio De­fault?
High­er glob­al in­terest rates are con­tinu­ing to add pres­sure on bor­row­ers’ abil­ity to com­ply with in­terest cov­er fin­an­cial cov­en­ants and ser­vice the in­terest on their out­stand­ing debt.In this fin­ance...
05/06/2023
North Sea Trans­ition Au­thor­ity ex­er­cises re­voc­a­tion powers in re­la­tion...
Since its in­cep­tion the NSTA has high­lighted the im­port­ance of “right as­sets, right hands” i.e. of en­sur­ing that off­shore pet­ro­leum li­cences are held by the right com­pan­ies to en­sure their de­vel­op­ment...
05/06/2023
Of­fices of the fu­ture
Should I stay or should I go? Your fu­ture of­fice We are de­lighted to launch our Of­fices of the Fu­ture in­ter­act­ive tool. It helps identi­fy key is­sues for ten­ants when mak­ing a de­cision on their fu­ture of­fice needs.A com­pany’s premises, par­tic­u­larly its headquar­ters, is a high-pro­file brand and cul­ture state­ment, and not just a large over­head. With the rap­id pace of change, there is an ever-in­creas­ing num­ber of factors to con­sider bey­ond the when, the where, the cost, and the trans­ition timetable.This in­ter­act­ive tool re­flects themes high­lighted dur­ing in­ter­views with key cli­ents who have re­cently re­lo­cated or helped oth­ers to do so, and will help in­form an in­de­pend­ent thought pro­cess.