Cryptoassets continue to be in the spotlight with prices no longer heading ‘to the moon’, the recent high-profile failure of an...
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Many Japanese companies have suspended or reduced Russian operations for now or are considering doing so given the current geo-political...
The UK’s Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published its first report on the new national...
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Nomura’s chief executive Kentaro Okuda expressed his expectation that the weakening of...
On 18 March 2021, the UK Government published its white paper on restoring trust in audit and corporate governance. On 31 May 2022, the...
ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) is driving businesses globally to re-think, re-calibrate and sometimes even re-invent their...
What are the implications for deal planning? On 1 June 2022, the various federal and regional governments of Belgium agreed on a draft...
On 18 May 2022, the General Court of the EU dismissed Canon’s appeal against the Commission’s 2019 decision that fined Canon €28m for...
In this blog, we examine the recent, and helpful, Planet case (20 May 2022, #444451, Société Planet; concl. C. Guibé), in which the...
The UK government is planning to introduce a UK corporate re-domiciliation regime that would allow a non-UK incorporated company to...
A single listing segment: reform or re-branding?On 26 May, the FCA published a discussion paper seeking views on replacing the current...