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Hong Kong's Listing Regulation Reforms - The Way Forward This client briefing highlights the outcomes of the consultation as well as the implications (including areas of uncertainties) on how the Exchange and the SFC will decide listing policy, IPO applications and post-IPO listing decisions. Just over a year o... P&E Update: Employment/Employee Benefits Bulletin Holiday pay; Suspension and postponed investigation; discretion in share option agreement;  Addison Lee;  FTSE 100 executive pay; Brexit: Call for evidence;  Supreme Court fees; EHRC Topics covered in this bulletin: New Law Finance Bill (no.2) 2017: Empl... P&E Update: Pensions Bulletin Gender pay gap; PPF bridging pension; Corporate governance; Pension scams; IBM v Dalgleish; Upper Tribunal’s jurisdiction; LTA enhanced protection; Pensions liberation; Box Clever FSDs; BHS Topics covered in this bulletin: New Partner Pensions Update Semi... Tax and the City briefing for September 2017 Jeanette Zaman and Zoe Andrews look at the difficulties faced by taxpayers in bringing judicial review claims and examine the corporate residence test, by reference to recent cases. The difficulties faced by taxpayers in bringing judicial review claims i... Facilitating tax evasion - are you ready? Sara Luder and Richard Jeens consider the new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion in the light of the publication of the final form Government guidance Sara Luder and Richard Jeens consider the new corporate cr... Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s Statement on Initial Coin Offerings: Regulating Virtual Tokens within the Existing Regulatory Regimes This client briefing highlights when Hong Kong’s securities and prospectus regimes may apply to an ICO and the implications of falling within these regimes for parties involved in an ICO. With the emerging trend of using initial coin offerings (ICOs) to r... Syndicated lending: in the European Commission’s sights? The European Commission has indicated in its 2017 Management Plan that it is contemplating engaging in a study on potential competition issues in syndicated lending The European Commission has indicated in its 2017 Management Plan that it is contemplating... P&E Update: Employment/Employee Benefits Bulletin Trade Union Act; Gender pay gap reporting; new rates and limits; Plumber was “worker”; Recognition of “sweetheart” union; Subject access request; Apprenticeship levy; Corporate governance Topics covered in this bulletin: New Law Trade Union Act: implemen... P&E Update: Pensions Bulletin Pensions advice allowance; PPF levy ceiling and compensation cap; LTA protection exemptions; Regulations on earning triggers and qualifying earning band; cohabitee nomination form discriminatory Topics covered in this bulletin: The Watch List New Law Pen... Conflicting counterfactuals: The High Court disagrees with the CAT, ruling that MasterCard's multilateral interchange fees are lawful Explores the different approaches taken by the High Court and the CAT to damages claims against MasterCard, and what might happen next The High Court’s judgment concerned substantially similar issues to those addressed by the CAT in July 2016. In that ear...