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President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan, bicameral Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024 into law on May 16, 2024, extending many old provisions as well as creating new policy. One new provision is...more
The EU and Euratom will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty with Member States to support modernisation in the future. The European Council has adopted four decisions, confirming that the EU and Euratom will leave the...more
On 16 May 2024, the government published updated guidance regarding the UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) framework. The SDR was first set out in Greening Finance: A Roadmap to Sustainable Investing in...more
Welcome to the second edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory, and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect to...more
In the latest article from our Striking the Balance: Permitting Reforms for Mining and the Energy Transition series, we explore the EU’s recent efforts to streamline the mine permitting process via the Critical Raw Materials...more
Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about....more
In this edition we discuss several updates aimed at the financial sector, including transition planning reports published by the Network for Greening the Financial System, prudential guidance from the Bank of England on how...more
AIFMD 2.0 enters into force today –15 April 2024. Member States have 24 months to transpose the provisions into national law, meaning that AIFMD 2.0 will take effect from 16 April 2026....more
Vermont Attorney General (AG) Charity Clark recently announced the resolution of an investigation into the withholding of security deposits across five motels that were participating in the state’s Transitional Housing...more
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (the “Act”) addresses domestic law that originally derived from the European Union, known as “retained EU law”. “Retained EU law” continued to apply to the UK at the end of...more
On October 9, 2023, the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published the Disclosure Framework providing good practice recommendations for companies to enable them to make “high quality, consistent and comparable transition plan...more
Monday, October 16, 2023: New US DOL Administrative Review Board Decision from March Sets Down New Backpay Calculation Runway in Litigated OFCCP Cases - Former Labor Secretary Walsh Reversed Previous ARB/ALJ Rulings Last...more
Recently, the Health Law Observer highlighted both implemented and proposed changes in requirements applicable to certain health care transactions in New Jersey and New York, respectively. Given the impact in both...more
Often, when a buyer purchases a specific business unit of a company, complexities arise for both buyer and seller as the business unit being sold frequently depends upon several services provided by the seller. At the...more
As part of our ongoing partnership agreement series, in this article, we discuss how accounting firms can address retirement in firm partnership agreements. Note: References to “partnership agreements” in this article...more
On April 25, 2022, the UK Transition Plan Taskforce (the “Taskforce”) was formally launched by HM Treasury. The goal of the independent Taskforce is to develop a “gold standard” for climate transition plans. With a two-year...more
Brexit and the Temporary Transitional Power - On 31 January 2020, the UK ceased to be a member of the EU. Following a transition period, EU law ceased to be applicable in the UK with effect from 11 p.m. on 31 December...more
"Brexit means Brexit" – so urteilte das OLG München Anfang August dieses Jahres. Das Gericht hatte über die Parteifähigkeit einer Gesellschaft zu entscheiden, die zwar als UK Limited gegründet wurde aber tatsächlich in...more
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched a consultation into revisions to the Energy NPSs earlier this month (which closes on 29 November) in line with the Planning Act 2008 which requires...more
This article summarizes the significant problems with the LIBOR transition in the US as compared to the UK (and the rest of the world). This summary is based upon the keynote speech at the United Kingdom Financial Conduct...more
Just hours before the conclusion of the spring legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly passed two bills that will significantly impact students who receive services until age 22. The first, HB40, impacts students...more
The Procurement Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech at the opening of Parliament in May 2021 was one of 30 new bills on the UK government’s legislative agenda for the coming year. The main aim of the Procurement Bill is to...more
The upcoming transition from LIBOR, which is published by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA), to the Secured Overnight Funds Rate (SOFR), which is published by the New York Federal Reserve Bank (NYFRB), has prompted a...more
On March 5, 2021, the ICE Benchmark Administration (the “IBA”) issued feedback that it had completed the consultation with LIBOR panel banks that it began in December 2020, and stated that it will be unable to publish certain...more
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority announced the future cessation and loss of representativeness of worldwide LIBOR rates. Potential Detrimental Developments - Recent Events - On Friday, March 5,...more