Search results
Please enter search term
Pensions Bulletin - July 2020
GMP equalisation; EU-US Privacy Shield; PPF COVID-19 levy; Equalisation close Barber window; High Court and RPI hard-wiring.
Welcome to the July 2020 Pensions Bulletin from Slaughter and May. In this month's edition, we analyse HM Revenue & ...
All change, no change? Corporate reporting in the post-Brexit world
With little sign of substantive progress in the negotiations on the future of the UK-EU relationship, UK companies must once again consider preparing for the possibility of a no-deal or “minimal deal” scenario at the end of the transition peri...
Tax residence post-MLI
Under the MLI (meaning the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS developed by the OECD) residence tie-breakers have been removed from some of the UK's tax treaties in favour of competent authority determinati...
Can Corporate PPAs help facilitate the "Green Recovery"?
Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs) could have great potential to enable a "green recovery". We discuss what corporates should consider before entering a CPPA.
As lockdown eases and the UK emerges from the most damaging effects of the C...
Insurance Newsletter - July 2020
This newsletter highlights selected legal and regulatory developments in insurance.
In this newsletter:
The future of insurance regulation post-Brexit
Green recovery and the insurance sector
The impact of COVID-19 on insurer solvency
EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - July 2020
Developments covered in this month’s edition include:
ECB publishes its Monetary Policy Decisions
Single Supervisory Mechanism - ECB publishes report on credit underwriting standards
The future of European banking regulation in the aftermath of...
The ECB eligibility criteria and asset purchase programmes after the Brexit implementation period
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks across the world set out a range of monetary stimulus packages. One such scheme is the European Central Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (“PEPP”), aimed at supporting Eurozo...
Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance: A new fund vehicle for private equity in Hong Kong
The Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (Cap. 637) provides a new fund vehicle for private equity in Hong Kong and will take effect on 31 August 2020.
On 17 July 2020, the Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (Cap. 637) (LPFO) was gazetted, marking the lat...
A simpler and more modern tax environment sounds good – but what about tax competition?
The Apple case is seen as raising the (very) hot topic of how a multinational group like Apple should be taxed in a modern, digital world. In a briefing on our website, Mike Lane and Isabel Taylor review the case and consider the implications of the decis...
Employment Bulletin - July 2020
Topics covered in this bulletin:
Worker with open-ended contract was an agency worker
Employer’s approach to alternative employment on redundancy was unfair
Refusal to give an undertaking was a failure to make reasonable adjustments
European C...