The government has published the second instalment of its proposals for adapting the UK’s regulatory framework for financial services,...
The truism “Brexit is a process rather than an event” holds good for securitisers. More than five years ago, the referendum made huge...
Following an 8 week consultation on its initial proposals earlier this year, the UK Government has published its response to that...
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...
The UK’s chances of re-joining the Lugano Convention, an international agreement on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments, have...
As part of the wider efforts towards a European Green Deal, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Corporate Sustainability...
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...
The UK National Security and Investment (NS&I) bill - which sets up a new regime for the Government to review transactions involving...
Ron Kalifa’s independent review of UK Fintech, announced in last March’s Budget, was published on 26 February 2021. The aim is to...
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...
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...
Today, Conservative MP John Penrose published his independent report into how the UK can enhance its competition regime now that the...
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...
As of 1 January 2021, the UK no longer applies the EU State aid rules (except as provided for in the NI Protocol to the EU-UK Withdrawal...
Many will have breathed a sigh of relief when the news filtered through that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement agreed on 24...
Although the UK left the EU at 11pm on 31 January 2020, most people would not have noticed any change because the effect of the...