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Dawn raids by the Hong Kong Competition Commission: A first aid kit To investigate potentially anti-competitive activities, officers from the Competition Commission (“Commission”) may carry out unannounced inspections at your offices in Hong Kong.  These unannounced visits are commonly referred to as &ls... Foreign Subsidies Regulation: Top 10 Tips for M&A Transactions Since October 2023, parties to M&A transactions have had to interact with the EU’s new filing regime under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation. This briefing highlights ten key lessons drawn from our practical experience helping clients navigate th... Spring Budget 2024: A welcome 'as you were' for most corporates If I had to sum up Budget 2024 for corporates in one word it would be 'boring'. And that is a good thing. By and large corporate tax directors like predictability and stability. Not the pantomime of recent years of corporation tax is going up (Mar... Employment Bulletin - March 2024 Dismissal and re-engagement: Code of Practice published No injunction to enforce post-termination restrictions in investment agreement Payment in settlement of discrimination claim was taxable as employment income April employment law changes and Spr... Data scraping and compliance - No clearview - (yet)? Companies often rely on data scraped from publicly available sources, but what are the legal bases? Companies often rely on data scraped from publicly available sources, but what are the legal bases? A version of this briefing first appeared in the Pri... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter – March 2024 Developments in this month's edition include: Board of Directors unlawfully grants ‘authority to act’ to a lawyer – CJEU Pilatus Bank v ECB (Case C-256/22 P and Case C-750/21 P) BigTech and financial services - ESAs publish stoc... 2024 HR Budget Briefing In what is anticipated to be the last major fiscal event before the UK’s general election, the Chancellor of the Exchequer today delivered the Government’s 2024 Budget to Parliament. A further reduction in employees’ National Insurance c... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: European Commission releases statistics on foreign subsidy regime and opens its first in-depth investigation February was a month of two firsts for the EU foreign subsidies regime. On 16 February 2024, the European Commission announced the launch of its first in-depth investigation under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. A few days later, this was followed by... Practice Tax – Spring 2024 Budget Views: Jeremy Hunt, gambling man Jeremy Hunt, gambling man.   Jeremy Hunt cuts a cautious and moderate figure that nobody would take for a gambler – but with the electoral odds stacked firmly against his party, it is hardly surprising that he rolled the dice in his second fu... Practice Tax – Spring 2024 Budget Views: Boring budget for business For many corporates, the Spring Budget looks distinctly boring.   The main rate of corporation tax will (no surprise) remain at 25%. Certain key measures are either already in place (such as full expensing having been made permanent) or remain subj...