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Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: Political agreement reached on EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation On 30 June 2022 the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached provisional political agreement on a regulation to control foreign subsidies that distort the EU internal market. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation, or FSR, will directly... The Legal 500: Litigation Comparative Guide - UK chapter The Legal 500: Litigation Country Comparative Guide aims to provide a country specific overview of litigation laws and regulations. Damian Taylor and Olga Ladrowska, members of our Disputes and Investigations team, co-authored  the UK: Litigation Ch... Acquisition Finance 2022 guide: Hong Kong Chapter A guide to the key aspects of acquisition finance in Hong Kong. Slaughter and May contributed the Hong Kong and UK chapters for the Chambers Global Practice Guide: Acquisition Finance 2022. The Hong Kong chapter, looks at key issues that arise ... Acquisition Finance 2022 guide: UK chapter A guide to the key aspects of acquisition finance in the United Kingdom (England and Wales). This article includes recent market and legal developments, together with an overview of the debt structures typically used and documentation considerations under... BLOG: Exploring the pros and cons of an online sales tax It is clear from the recent HM Treasury consultation document that an online sales tax (OST) applied to certain sales to UK customers would be a very complex measure, even though its aim of levelling the playing field between retailers operating... The Russia-Ukraine crisis: Implications for energy markets On 8 March the UK, US and EU urgently reviewed their energy policy with a view to reducing dependence on Russian oil and gas. In this article, we explore what happened and what this might mean for energy markets. Background In liberalised energy mark... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - March 2022 Developments in this month's edition include: SREP 2021 results - the ECB publishes the SREP 2021 COVID-19 - ECB announces no further extension of capital and leverage relief for banks Pilatus Bank and another v European Central Bank (Case T-27/1... Global Investigations Bulletin (March 2022) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for March 2022 is now available. This month, we review the UK’s legal framework for sanctions against certain Russian individuals and entities, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement ... Parallel Reviews - Parallel Decisions? A look back at the first 12 months of EC & CMA merger reviews A look back at the first 12 months of EC & CMA merger reviews. One year of post-Brexit parallel merger control reviews by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission has seen the authorities diverge in several cases. ... BLOG: Is tax gender-neutral?   A recent OECD report, based on a July 2021 survey of 43 countries, including from the G20, the OECD and beyond, found few examples of explicit bias (i.e. where tax rules differ by gender). But more than half of the respondent countries saw a ...