2/10/2023 1:53:23 PM BMW AG v CMA ruling - No extraterritorial effect for CMA's investigatory powers By Dr Nele Dhondt The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and High Court have issued a single ruling in Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v Competition and Markets...
1/4/2023 12:58:04 PM The Subsidy Control Act comes into effect today By Dr Nele Dhondt Isabel Taylor Today the Subsidy Control Act 2022 comes into full effect. The Act represents a development of the UK subsidy control regime that was put...
2/8/2022 11:48:35 AM Henry's back... By Kathrine Meloni The release of Sue Gray’s update report on 31st January somewhat overshadowed the Prime Minister’s announcement of a Brexit Freedoms...
12/2/2021 12:36:21 PM UK Financial Regulation: Part 2 By Selmin Hakki The government has published the second instalment of its proposals for adapting the UK’s regulatory framework for financial services,...
9/23/2021 12:40:03 PM Brexit carries on: the EU and UK are reforming their securitisation regulations separately By Eric Phillips The truism “Brexit is a process rather than an event” holds good for securitisers. More than five years ago, the referendum made huge...
7/1/2021 12:03:59 PM The Subsidy Control Bill - What you need to know about the UK's proposed new subsidy control regime By Dr Nele Dhondt Isabel Taylor Following an 8 week consultation on its initial proposals earlier this year, the UK Government has published its response to that...
6/21/2021 2:27:57 PM UK announces post-Brexit trade deal with Australia By Tim Morrison Harry Lloyd On 15 June 2021, Boris Johnson announced that the UK had agreed the broad terms of a free trade deal with Australia following a meeting...
5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM The Lugano Convention: A setback for UK accession, but we’ll always have The Hague By Damian Taylor Robert Brittain The UK’s chances of re-joining the Lugano Convention, an international agreement on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments, have...
5/11/2021 12:00:00 AM EU adopts Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive By Jeff Twentyman George Murray As part of the wider efforts towards a European Green Deal, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability...
5/7/2021 11:16:37 AM European Commission publishes new Regulation targeting foreign subsidies By Dr Nele Dhondt On 5 May 2021, the European Commission (EC) published a draft Regulation for a new regime to address the impact of subsidies from non-EU...
5/6/2021 12:08:18 PM The UK's national security bolstered - the National Security and Investment Bill receives Royal Assent By Dr Nele Dhondt The UK National Security and Investment (NS&I) bill - which sets up a new regime for the Government to review transactions involving...
3/1/2021 2:06:35 PM Fintech: a core asset for Global Britain By Selmin Hakki Ron Kalifa’s independent review of UK Fintech, announced in last March’s Budget, was published on 26 February 2021. The aim is to...
2/18/2021 11:32:00 AM Brexit has happened, so what's next for securitisations? By Eric Phillips The UK left the EU single market at 11:00 pm (London time) on 31 December 2020. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the UK and...
2/17/2021 9:19:08 AM 3 month reprieve for UK based .eu domain registrants - EURid By Slaughter and May As we warned in an earlier Lens post here, some UK entities who had registered some 142,000 UK based .eu domain names had a potentially...
2/16/2021 5:26:30 PM The Penrose Report: A roadmap for the UK’s post-Brexit competition and consumer law regime? By Robert Walmsley Today, Conservative MP John Penrose published his independent report into how the UK can enhance its competition regime now that the...
2/5/2021 9:13:14 AM Brexit has happened - so what's next for debt capital markets? By Eric Phillips One month ago, at 11:00 pm on New Year’s Eve, the Brexit implementation ended and the UK left the EU single market. The Trade and...