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Employment Bulletin - May 2025
Topics covered in this bulletin:
HR Spotlight 2025: 19 June 2025
Court of Appeal examines leaver provisions in company’s articles of association
Change to incentive plan by parent company was not unlawful age discrimination
Supreme Court decides that def...
Tax and the City Review - May 2025
In their latest Tax and the City article, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews consider:
The FTT’s decision in The Vaccine Research Limited Partnership case that the licence fee payments were not income because the licence fee financing arrangements were circu...
The Lens Newsletter - May 2025
A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May.
Podcasts
The Evolving Cyber Risk Landscape
In this two-part podcast series, members of our Cyber Hub, Richard Jeens and Natalie Donovan,...
Insurance regulation: more tweaking of the rules?
Hong Kong Launches Company Re-domiciliation Regime
Key points
Hong Kong has launched an “inward re-domiciliation” regime with effect from 23 May 2025, allowing non-Hong Kong incorporated companies to move their domicile to Hong Kong without court or winding-up procedures while preserving continuation of ...
Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: Advocate General finds ‘no-poach’ agreements generally restrictive ‘by object’, but “context always matters”
On 15 May 2025, Advocate General Emiliou issued his opinion on the assessment of a ‘no-poach’ clause under EU competition rules. While he considered that such clauses are generally restrictive ‘by object’, he suggested that the ‘no-poach’ clause in questi...
Event-driven creditor activism - A corporate perspective
Introduction
Interventions from activist debt investors - normally hedge funds - are familiar in crisis and insolvency scenarios. A flurry of recent news stories and claims have highlighted that companies can attract the attention of activist funds as a r...
Tax treatment of re-domiciliations and cross-border mergers
Everything, everywhere all at once – proposals for pensions reform
After months of relative quiet on the pensions front, last week saw a flurry of activity from the Government with long awaited responses to consultation being published in relation to both DB and DC schemes. The consistent theme is how pension scheme asse...
Aviva's equity release securitisation signals a new era for long-term RMBS
This briefing explores Equity Release Products - their role in later-life finance, regulatory oversight, and evolving securitisation trends across the UK and beyond.
The word “mortgage” comes from the Old French words “mort” meaning “death” and “gage” ...