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On 23 March 2023, the new DLT Pilot Regime entered into force. This European market infrastructure regulation aims to promote distributed ledger technology (DLT) in securities trading and settlement ...
In the article available at the link below, our London Tax team share their experience of the approach the UK tax authority (HMRC) is taking to unallowable purposes enquires, with a focus on the loan...
Following a challenging year for cryptoassets, 2023 is the year of legislative reform as legislators calibrate their approach to businesses operating in this space. Banks are still hesitant to take ...
In this article Anthea Bowater and Sarah Robinson consider the UK’s Supreme Court decision in Stanford International Bank v HSBC [2022] UKSC 34. This article was first published in the January/...
In this article Sarah Parkes and Emma Probyn consider key UK court decisions in 2022 and implications for financial services firms. This article was first published in the January/February 2023 issue...
This article highlights key decisions from financial services enforcement in the UK in 2022, looking at the themes emerging from those decisions and what we might expect in 2023. The table below ...
The taxation of cryptoassets is far from straightforward. Even if we assume that most tax authorities ultimately want to replicate the tax treatment of equivalent traditional assets, there are a ...
The rising cost of living is a top priority for the FCA and brings the FCA’s existing focus on consumer protection further into the spotlight. The FCA has been taking an increasingly active role in ...
On 25 November 2022, the German government presented its draft bill on the Electricity Price Brake Act (Strompreisbremsegesetz - StromPBG-E). According to this draft bill, operators of power plants ...
On 25 November 2022, the German Federal Cabinet presented its draft bill for the Natural-Gas Heat Price-Brake Act (Erdgas-Wärme-Preisbremsegesetz – EWPBG). This draft is the result of the “...
Beginning in the second half of 2021, Europe has been exposed to increasing natural gas prices which have in turn driven up electricity prices across the European Union. Between November 2021 and the...
In one of the more important decisions on legal professional privilege (LPP) handed down this year,[1] the English Court of Appeal unanimously held that, when determining whether LPP attaches to the ...
On 8 November 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) (in a Grand Chamber composition) adopted its final judgment in the Fiat State aid case. The ECJ set aside the General Court (GC) judgment, and ...
With COP27 in Egypt now taking place, we’re focusing on one of the four key themes of the Egyptian presidency, “collaboration”, and specifically where we stand on the global debate about the role of ...
We recently gathered a group of experts from Freshfields and Frontier Economics to share insights into competition and trade developments relating to the energy transition. Here are some of the key ...
What you need to know if contracting with the UK Government In June 2022, Freshfields and Monckton Chambers co-hosted an event on how the Procurement Bill proposes to reform public procurement law in...
Listed Company Academy: Hot Topics The slides and video recording of the session are available here: Slides for Listed Company Academy: Hot Topics – 27 September 2022 Video recording of the session ...
For the first time, the FTT has been asked to consider a principal purpose test in a double tax treaty. With a win for the taxpayer at this stage – which one might consider to be the right outcome, ...
Introduction Recent global circumstances have led to record oil and gas prices, putting pressure on governments around the world to take action to help households deal with rising costs, with the UN ...