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Lockdown pirates: at what cost? COVID lockdown has had us all settling in to a new way of living and leaving us with enough hours to binge watch the hottest new dramas. With cinemas closed, the film industry has adapted to offer new releases straight to digital rental. This week the UK ... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter European Commission publishes final report on the evaluation of the Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines The European Commission has published its final report on the evaluation of the Vertical Block Exemption Regula... Modernising competition law: European agencies look to address sustainability gap Promoting sustainability, including environmental objectives such as fighting climate change, has not traditionally been a core function of competition law enforcement. There is a growing view that competition law has even had a chilling effect on potenti... Competition Law in the Digital Age This edition covers the Italian focus on COVID-19 and e-commerce, the UK Digital Markets Unit, and the French decision in relation to online newspapers. Our Competition Law in the Digital Age newsletter is a quarterly publication intended to provide insi... Flexible furlough - where next for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme? This publication considers the amendments to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme announced by the Chancellor on 29 May 2020. These include additional flexibility for employees to work part time during furlough, and increasing employer contributions to th... COVID-19: Impact on commercial leases: the last word? The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill has now been introduced to Parliament and includes the last of the statutory measures so far promised to protect commercial tenants from what the Government characterises as “aggressive debt recovery acti... Pensions Bulletin - May 2020 COVID-19; The Pension Regulator’s Annual Funding Statement; cases preventing switches to CPI-linked increases; non-financial investment considerations; notify member of changes to late retirement factors Topics covered in this bulletin: COVID-19... Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2019-20: Ipso Facto Provisions Generational Insolvency Reform restricts ipso facto provisions and pre-existing termination rights The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2019-20, published during the COVID-19 pandemic, contains far-reaching reforms to the insolvency regime u... How will COVID-19 affect the future of environmental taxes? Whilst the impact of COVID-19 on the environmental taxes agenda is yet to be fully understood, it would seem prudent for businesses to continue to prepare for the implementation of those measures announced albeit with the expectation that there may be som... The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill: a toolkit for the Covid era and beyond? The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill contains a mixture of temporary measures necessitated by the immediate economic and practical challenges of COVID-19, and longer-term reforms to our restructuring and insolvency regime. This briefing consi...