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Personal Data Sharing: What Information About Recipients Do We Need to Provide to Individuals Under the GDPR?

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Sharing personal data is necessary for most organisations, but it also entails certain data protection risks. Controllers who share personal data with others must, among other obligations, ensure that they comply with the...more

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A ‘Somewhat Special Category’: Interpreting Articles of Association

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In Syspal Capital Limited v. Truman & Anor [2024] EWHC 1561 (ChD), the court had to determine the correct interpretation of a particular clause in a company’s articles of association (articles) that concerned deemed transfer...more

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Conditions Precedent and Time Bars, Getting Around Them

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When a party fails to comply with a condition precedent, especially if such a provision includes a time limit for the fulfilment of the obligation, it will often advance various arguments to avoid the consequences of...more

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Cross-Border Implications of the FCA’s Consultation Paper on Publishing Information About the Opening and Progress of...

Last month, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it is considering new procedures under which it would publicly identify firms that are under investigation as soon as the investigation has been...more

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Employment Terms - A View From Both Sides of the Pond

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As businesses look to expand their operations globally, we are increasingly seeing HR leaders taking a strategic view on how they want to engage their workforce across different jurisdictions. There is a greater push from...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Government Consults on Potential Changes to the UK’s Investment Screening Regime

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On 13 November 2023, the UK government launched a Call for Evidence in relation to the operation of the UK National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the ‘NSIA’), inviting interested stakeholders to provide feedback on the...more

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ISDA Amendments to Master Agreement Relating to Default Notice Provision and Characterisation of Credit Support Annexes

As a response to member feedback relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and following a period of consultation with its members beginning in 2022, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a number...more

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Corporate Briefing - April 2023

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Welcome to our first edition of Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2022

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the California Privacy Protection Agency’s revised draft regulations for the California Privacy Rights Act, the Federal Trade Commission’s settlement with a...more

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Ground rents and the costs of protecting tenants

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The problem - You are the landlord of a residential block in England. The flats in the block were sold on long leases. Each lease reserves a ground rent of £250 a year payable in two instalments every six months....more

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Buying a UK Crypto Business: The New Regulatory Hurdles

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​​​​​​​The advance of the regulation of crypto-assets and crypto-related service providers has been piecemeal in the U.K. The latest round of changes took place in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR) on 1 September...more

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The UK National Security and Investment Act: Key Implications for the Energy Sector

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The UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the “Act”) entered into force on 4 January 2022, introducing a new investment control regime for acquisitions in the UK, with the aim of protecting the UK’s national...more

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BEIS issues anticipated National Security & Investment Act market guidance notes

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Following on from its first annual report on the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”) in June 2022 ), on 19 July 2022 the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) published its first set of...more

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Implications of the National Security & Investment Act 2021 for distressed deals

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The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the Act) came into force on 4 January 2022 and is expected to have significant consequences in the distressed environment, particularly in relation to the enforcement of security...more

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UK Pensions Regulator's new criminal powers are a wake-up call to companies planning corporate transactions

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The UK Pensions Regulator is gaining stronger powers, which will have a significant impact on companies undertaking activities such as M&A, secured borrowing, and restructuring. Following best practice and thinking ahead have...more

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Briefcase Quarterly Update: Key Real Estate Cases - December 2021

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Briefcase: Quarterly Real Estate Update - Cases and News including: ..London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas and others ..Terence James Macey v Pizza Express (Restaurants) Ltd ..Kensquare Ltd v Boakye...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The UK National Security and Investment Act 2021: A New Regime For Acquisition and Investment Transactions: Update

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There have been a number of key developments in the evolution of the UK’s national security regime since our e-bulletin earlier this year (UK to Adopt New Powers Over M&A Activity To Protect National Security). First and...more

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Takeover Panel Bulletin in Relation to Irrevocable Commitments and Letters of Intent

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On 17 November 2021, the Takeover Panel (the “Panel”) published Panel Bulletin 3 (the “Bulletin”) relating to the requirements of Rule 2.10(c) of the Takeover Code (the “Code”). Under Rule 2.10(c), a person who has given an...more

Hogan Lovells

Pensions: new notifiable events – what corporates (and their lenders) should know

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A requirement to tell the Pensions Regulator (tPR) about certain events (“notifiable events”) has long been part of tPR’s armoury in its ongoing campaign to strengthen funding of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes. ...more

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Coronavirus Act 2020 (England and Wales) Residential Tenancies - Protection From Eviction (June 2021)

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What changed? At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government sought to ensure that renters, especially those who are vulnerable and on low-incomes, received the support they needed to see them through the pandemic,...more

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International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more

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UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter - March 2021: Granting Incentives Under U.S. Plans to UK-based Executives

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One of the most effective ways to incentivise staff, in particular senior employees, is to offer them the opportunity to purchase stock or shares in a group company. U.S. companies often operate stock and other incentive...more

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Long Hot Summer? How should UK employers deal with the question of holiday during year 2 of COVID?

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At the beginning of another year impacted by COVID-19, many employers have found themselves with employees having large amounts of outstanding annual leave carried over from 2020. Stuck in lockdown once again, employees are...more

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UK National Security & Investment Bill - the Potential Ramifications for Insolvency Practitioners

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The new National Security and Investment Bill, which aims to provide the Government with the necessary powers to scrutinise and intervene in business transactions to protect national security, will introduce a mandatory...more

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The Data & Brexit Digest – Drafting tips for contracts and policies

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With the UK now unambiguously out of the EU, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) has been replaced by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”). In this third instalment of...more

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