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26 November 2020
The Future of Cities: Businesses stand ready to help governments unlock city investment
At the start of 2020, global investment in city projects was reaching new heights. The world’s biggest spending cities were investing in over 8,200 projects in 2019, with a combined project pipeline of US$5.3 trillion. Then the pandemic hit, followed closely by economic recession: government...
17 November 2020
Future Cities Series: The role of green taxes in fighting climate change
The reduction in consumption and depressed economies resulting from the pandemic will necessarily lead to reduced tax revenue this year and in subsequent years. Against this back-drop, how will governments balance a desire to pursue a green agenda with the need to address budget deficits and...
12 November 2020
Unbundling Competition: Asia competition law podcasts
Listen to the latest developments in Asia, and those affecting Asian businesses globally, from merger control and foreign direct investment regulation to cartels and compliance. In each podcast, the firm's Competition, Regulation and Trade team examines key competition law and related regulatory...
05 November 2020
Future Cities Series: Views from our sector experts
This series examines the most pressing issues facing our cities in the post-Covid era. We have taken a cross-sector view of the legal and regulatory impacts of the pandemic and have scrutinised the key areas that are likely to be affected by it. Across each of those areas, our sector experts...
05 November 2020
Future Cities Series: Creating a safe cyber and data future
The pandemic has shown us just how dependent society is on computers connected to the internet and the information that is used and stored. This dependence has also increased, with many regarding the pandemic as an accelerator for digitalisation. Yet this time has also highlighted that we are far...
05 November 2020
Future Cities Series: Can smart buildings revive the office?
We have all heard how the Covid-19 pandemic has emptied offices around the world and the growing belief that wide-scale home working is here to stay. By this reasoning, the large city centre office is dying out. But, as with many areas, the pandemic could instead accelerate changes to office spaces...
20 October 2020
2020 Global Bank Review: #disruption
The 2020 edition of our Global Bank Review: #disruption , explores the challenges and opportunities facing banks, with the emergence and impact of the Covid-19 global health pandemic and its subsequent ramifications. While the sector has faced – and overcome – significant disruption before, the...
02 October 2020
Inside tech Asia Pacific webinar series
Our Inside Tech Asia Pacific Webinar Series covers a range of topics including fintech and digital banking, digital infrastructure, healthtech, and growth and investments in Asia Pacific. New themes and episodes will be added regularly. To join a live webinar session, please register and save the...
15 September 2020
Future Cities Series: Beyond Applause – Key workers in future cities
The contribution made by key workers to our cities has never been more essential – or more appreciated. Yet many of our cities are increasingly unaffordable for nurses, paramedics, teachers and police officers. The Covid‑19 pandemic may result in a renewed focus on enabling key workers to live and...
31 August 2020
Digihealth and the Race for Health Data – Key Legal Issues
The healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors in Asia and beyond are being reshaped by new digital technologies. From the use of AI for identifying lead compounds and connected devices for collecting personal health data, to the use of blockchain for managing supply chains and telehealth for accessing...
31 August 2020
New guide to restructuring and insolvency in Mainland China
Restructuring and insolvency in China is evolving and investors must stay ahead of the latest developments. Our new guide, The Basics of Restructuring and Insolvency Law in Mainland China, provides an essential roadmap for both investors and practitioners.
20 August 2020
Corporate Crime Update - August 2020
Welcome to the August 2020 edition of our corporate crime update - our round up of developments in relation to corruption, money laundering, fraud, sanctions and related matters. Our update now covers a number of jurisdictions. For the full update on each jurisdiction, please click on the links...
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27 November 2020
Predicting the future for “green” claims: The Full Federal Court provides guidance on representations as to future matters
Marketing products as ‘environmentally friendly’ is an increasingly popular way for businesses to capture consumer attention. As the popularity of such ‘green’ marketing claims has increased, so has the ACCC’s scrutiny of these claims.
26 November 2020
Cartel Intel – updates from our EMEA network
Welcome to the our series of regular bulletins addressing key cartel enforcement developments across the EMEA region. Drawing on insights offered by market leading competition practitioners across our network of EMEA offices, we aim to highlight and provide expert analysis of developments of key...
26 November 2020
The Future of Cities: Businesses stand ready to help governments unlock city investment
At the start of 2020, global investment in city projects was reaching new heights. The world’s biggest spending cities were investing in over 8,200 projects in 2019, with a combined project pipeline of US$5.3 trillion. Then the pandemic hit, followed closely by economic recession: government...
26 November 2020
Shaping the boundaries of collective redress in Germany – a glimpse of the future under an EU Representative Action Regime?
In a recent decision made on 17 November 2020, Germany’s highest civil court shaped the boundaries of collective redress available under German law. The court dismissed a claim brought against a financial institution as inadmissible because the plaintiff did not have the standing to bring the claim.
26 November 2020
Developments in UK trade negotiations. The UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership
At the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020, all of the bilateral trade agreements which are applicable to the UK benefits by virtue of its membership of the EU will cease to apply to the UK with potentially significant impact on trade between the UK and the respective partner...
26 November 2020
Workplace change for the Covid recovery
Australian Industrial Relations reforms In May 2020, the government announced its intention to introduce workplace changes to support the rebuilding of a post-Covid economy. Join our Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety team as we unpack the headlines and follow the latest developments on...
25 November 2020
Closing the class: Uncertainties and challenges for class action settlements
Earlier this year, two decisions of the New South Wales Court of Appeal have challenged the appropriateness of what had been a standard class action procedural step known as “class closure”. This development will likely add to the complexities in resolving class action litigation, particularly...
24 November 2020
Back to basics: The Development Consent Order regime podcast series
In this series of "Back to basics" podcasts, we provide a bite-sized introduction to the nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP) regime under the Planning Act 2008, drawing on our extensive experience advising on all key aspects of development consent orders (DCOs). Each of the five...
23 November 2020
UK EQUITY CAPITAL MARKETS IN 2020 AND H1 2021– RIDING THE WAVE
In March we wrote a piece ( here ) on considerations for listed companies seeking to raise capital in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. As we expected, the subsequent seven months has seen a raft of companies coming to market, with more money raised in equity by UK listed companies in 2020 YTD than...
20 November 2020
Award simplification – We’d like to do it, but we just can’t work out how
The Prime Minister in his address to the National Press Club on 26 May 2020 identified that the current industrial relations system was not ‘fit-for-purpose’. His solution was to get everyone ‘back in the room.’ By everyone, it turns out he meant the ‘IR Club’ – its back in business – employer...
