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22/04/2022
New de­vel­op­ments in UK CCUS: BEIS pub­lishes de­tails of Dis­patch­able Power...
On 12 April, the De­part­ment for Busi­ness, En­ergy and In­dus­tri­al Strategy (“BEIS”) pub­lished two fur­ther up­dates on the pro­posed Dis­patch­able Power Agree­ment (“DPA”) and In­dus­tri­al Car­bon Cap­ture...
21/04/2022
CMS ad­vises Prag­mat­ic Group on his­tor­ic part­ner­ship with DAZN Group
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Prag­mat­ic Solu­tions and Prag­mat­ic Play ("Prag­mat­ic Group") in re­la­tion to its ex­clus­ive multi-year part­ner­ship with DAZN Group, a lead­ing sports en­ter­tain­ment busi­ness...
21/04/2022
CMS ad­vises on in­vest­ment in tech­no­logy solu­tions pro­vider WSD
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised the founder and share­hold­ers of WSD on a ma­jor­ity stake in­vest­ment by Bowmark Cap­it­al (Bowmark), the mid-mar­ket private equity firm. WSD is a lead­ing pro­vider of...
21/04/2022
Fi­nal UK pro­pos­als for Ex­ten­ded Pro­du­cer Re­spons­ib­il­ity for pack­aging
On 26 March 2022, the UK Gov­ern­ment and the de­volved ad­min­is­tra­tions pub­lished their joint re­sponse to a 2021 con­sulta­tion on pro­pos­als for an Ex­ten­ded Pro­du­cer Re­spons­ib­il­ity (“EPR”) re­gime for pack­aging...
21/04/2022
Step change for gambling ads
As part of its con­tinu­ing re­sponse to GambleAware’s Fi­nal Syn­thes­is Re­port on the ef­fect of gambling mar­ket­ing on un­der-18s and vul­ner­able adults, the Com­mit­tee of Ad­vert­ising Prac­tice (“CAP”) has...
21/04/2022
En­ergy: Con­sequences of not ex­er­cising an op­tion
In Thurcroft Power Lim­ited v. Volta En­ergy Group Lim­ited [2022] EWHC 338 (Comm), the Com­mer­cial Court de­cided that an op­tion agree­ment con­cern­ing the early stages of a bat­tery stor­age de­vel­op­ment did...
20/04/2022
CMS Elec­tric Vehicle Round-up Q1 2022
We are pleased to share the CMS Elec­tric Vehicle Round-up for Q1 2022 – an at-a-glance round-up of the key de­vel­op­ments in the UK EV space this past quarter. In this is­sue, we cov­er some of the fol­low­ing...
20/04/2022
CMS ad­vises seni­or lenders to Cap­man In­fra and Red Rock Power on  large...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised the seni­or lenders in re­spect of the €180mil­lion re­fin­an­cing of the 241MW Över­turin­gen op­er­a­tion­al wind farm in cent­ral Sweden, owned by an equal joint ven­ture...
20/04/2022
Rus­sia’s latest re­sponse to West­ern Sanc­tions – an af­front to In­tel­lec­tu­al...
One of Rus­sia’s re­sponses to the mount­ing West­ern sanc­tions for its in­va­sion of Ukraine has been to un­der­mine the pro­tec­tion af­forded to West­ern in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty rights. On 5th March 2022, the...
20/04/2022
Up­dated ICO guid­ance on data pro­tec­tion and COV­ID-19 fol­low­ing re­lax­a­tion...
As a res­ult of the re­cent re­lax­a­tion of gov­ern­ment meas­ures around COV­ID-19, the In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er’s Of­fice (“ICO”) has pub­lished new guid­ance re­gard­ing what to do with ad­di­tion­al per­son­al...
20/04/2022
New con­sumer pro­tec­tion law an­nounced
Fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s 2021 Con­sulta­tion Pa­per on po­ten­tial new con­sumer pro­tec­tion re­forms (which we dis­cussed in a pre­vi­ous art­icle), the Gov­ern­ment has, on 20 April 2022, an­nounced sig­ni­fic­ant...
19/04/2022
Scot­land’s land own­er­ship – double the trans­par­ency? 
Re­gister of Per­sons Hold­ing a Con­trolled In­terest in Land (“RCI”) The RCI was launched in Scot­land on 1 April 2022 and is in­ten­ded to show who has sig­ni­fic­ant in­flu­ence or con­trol over the own­er or...