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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... Do your digital plans match your licensing reality? As many organisations enhance their digital strategies, and embrace new agile ways of interacting with customers and supply chains it is vital they ensure that the ‘drive for digital’ does not breach existing (sometimes long-running) technology licensing ... Tracking, watching, predicting...lawfully: responsible profiling under the GDPR Profiling is an essential part of the business model for many companies. This briefing looks at the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on customer profiling, particularly for the retail sector. Profiling is an essential part of the business ... European Court of Justice endorses effects-based approach to Article 102 On 6 September 2017 the European Court of Justice delivered its much anticipated judgment in Intel v Commission, rejecting the General Court's controversial finding that exclusivity rebates are per se abuses of dominance The European Court of Justice has ... Competition and Regulatory Newsletter Trending this season at the European Commission: agrochemical mergers Trending this season at the European Commission: agrochemical mergers On 22 August 2017 the European Commission opened a Phase II investigation into the proposed acquisition of Monsanto...