Mar 31, 2023 Further EU greenwashing proposals: EU Green Claims Directive By Eve Ellis Lewis Hammond The European Commission recently published new rules that mean businesses will have to meet more stringent standards when making...
Mar 31, 2023 Fight for fair play: Antitrust battles in the gaming industry By Katie Gerasimidis Lisa Kaltenbrunner The playing field The gaming industry has been growing for decades, with advancements in technologies spurring a constant increase in...
Mar 31, 2023 The UK's Economic Crime Plan is here - what is in store for the next three years? By Sarah Lambert-Porter After a nine month delay, the Home Secretary announced the UK’s second Economic Crime Plan (2023-2026) yesterday. The three-year Plan...
Mar 30, 2023 FCA delays publication of Policy Statement for UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels By Eve Ellis Lewis Hammond The FCA has pushed back the publication of its Policy Statement on the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels...
Mar 30, 2023 Reflections from WIRED's health conference 2023 By David Dowling As with impact investing, healthcare is now at the top of everyone’s agendas as seen by technology magazine WIRED hosting a conference on...
Mar 30, 2023 UK introduces light-touch AI regulation By Edward Machin 2023 is unquestionably the Year of AI. General purpose tools like ChatGPT have made the public keenly aware of and interested in AI,...
Mar 29, 2023 Implications of FCA's new Consumer Duty on private funds By Eve Ellis Thomas Bannatyne On 31 July this year the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is introducing its new Consumer Duty (the Duty) primarily through the...
Mar 28, 2023 Legal Lingo: What is a marketing authorisation, and why does it matter? By Lewis Bizaoui Being an aspiring commercial lawyer often means being confronted by complex, often abstract, concepts leading to an often impenetrable...
Mar 24, 2023 Direct lending to sponsors vs lending to non-sponsored or family businesses By Samuel Norris Lending to non-sponsored or family businesses requires a different approach to lending to a sponsor-backed company. So much so that it’s...
Mar 23, 2023 The global regulatory landscape of digital health By Lincoln Tsang A recently published chapter (here) describes the evolving global regulatory landscape in three major developing areas – real world...
Mar 22, 2023 Not all of the Credit Suisse AT1 note terms are the same. Are there opportunities arising from those differences? By Samuel Norris Time (and great Swiss litigators) will tell whether there is any merit in litigation following the weekend’s news on Credit Suisse. But...
Mar 20, 2023 What does Jeremy Hunt’s “budget for growth” mean for tech and life sciences investors? By David Dowling Edward Machin Sophie Waters Francesca Bell +1 more... Show less Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has released a “Budget for growth”. The political messaging continues Rishi Sunak’s...
Mar 20, 2023 OFSI updates its Monetary Penalties Guidance on assessing ownership and control By Kevin Nordin On March 16, 2023, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) updated its guidance on enforcement and monetary penalties...
Mar 17, 2023 Was the CAT right to limit the CMA’s extraterritorial reach? By Dervla Broderick Ruchit Patel On February 8, 2023, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (the CAT) published a judgment on the Competition and Markets Authority’s...
Mar 16, 2023 ICO agrees to reduce Easylife's monetary penalty By Ropes & Gray On 16 March 2023, the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) announced that it had agreed with Easylife Ltd (Easylife) to reduce the amount of...
Mar 15, 2023 The regulation of clinical trials in the United Kingdom By Lincoln Tsang Hannah Kerr-Peterson Daisy Bray Earlier this month, our Life Sciences Regulatory and Compliance team published a practice note in Practical Law, which explains how...