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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... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - July 2022 Developments in this month's edition include: Proposal to amend EU MiFIR - ECB issues opinion G-SIB assessment methodology - ECB publishes statement on treatment of banking union MREL - SRB publishes updated policy for 2022   Please do co... Balancing Security and Sustainability: Does the UK Energy Bill 2022 measure up? The long-awaited Energy Security Bill (the Bill) was laid before Parliament on 6 July. The Bill is a crucial piece of legislation for the UK’s energy transition ambitions and energy security, including powers to support technologies such as low carb... BLOG: Restrictive immunity: codifying the UK's approach to taxing sovereign investors The doctrine of sovereign immunity is the international law principle that one sovereign State should not seek to apply its law to another sovereign State. In the UK, the application of that principle to the courts is governed by the State Immunity Act 19... Insurance Newsletter - July 2022 In this newsletter we discuss: Regulatory reform and the insurance sector, Meeting customer needs – policy exclusions and target markets, Update on the EU review of the Solvency II Directive, and Trends in transactions. In this newsletter we discus... Modernising Chinese Antitrust: What’s to come from the amended Anti-Monopoly Law Change is coming to antitrust law in China. After over two years of consideration and consultation, the Chinese legislature recently passed its first amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), with changes ranging from an updated merger control regime to n... Adding to the patchwork rather than wholesale revolution: the future of corporate criminal liability The Law Commission has published its long-awaited Options Paper for reforming the laws on corporate criminal liability for economic crimes. The ten options presented to the UK government represent gentle reform of the existing framework, rather than whole... COVID-related changes to the employment ordinance come into operation On 17 June 2022, the Employment Ordinance (Cap. 57) has been amended to address common issues in an employment context which have arisen as a result of the anti-epidemic measures implemented to control the spread of COVID-19.   This client briefing d... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: Qualcomm wins appeal to General Court over exclusivity payments On 15 June 2022 the European General Court annulled the European Commission's decision to fine Qualcomm €997.4m for abuse of dominance under Article 102 TFEU. The General Court held that the Commission had breached Qualcomm's rights of d... Competition Law in the Digital Age - June 2022 Our Competition Law in the Digital Age newsletter is a quarterly publication intended to provide insights on modern-day competition law developments in a bite-sized format. This edition covers the EU's Digital Markets Act, the German digital competiti...