Autumn 2021

Recent changes in the Swiss financial litigation landscape | Bär & Karrer

A new piece of regulation: the entry into force of the FinSA and FinIA While the financial regulation landscape, inclusive of compliance, has kept evolving and increasing in the past 20 years, the architectural skeleton of the Swiss regulation landscape in this industry was entirely reviewed with the entry into force of two new bills …

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Climate change: boardroom heroes | DAC Beachcroft

If, as according to Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, CFO’s believe that climate transition will re-shape the business environment and more than two-thirds expect significant or wholesale change in their own business as a result of the move to net zero, what do CLOs or general counsel think?

Corporate criminal liability in the UK: is change in the air? | Steptoe & Johnson

In what some have described as a development ‘seismic’ in its potential consequences, in June 2021, the Law Commission launched a consultation concerning proposals to reform corporate criminal liability in the UK. The consultation seeks views on whether, and how, to improve the law relating to the identification and punishment of criminal offences committed by …

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Tax disputes – some predictions for the year ahead | PwC

With public finances under sustained pressure, HMRC will clearly have to collect more tax, more quickly, with stable resource levels, while stimulating economic growth. This will require rapid decision making on what, or who, to pursue, and why. There will be more pressure on tax policy decisions in terms of where to draw the line …

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Tax disputes – discard the Whitebook? | PwC

There are some significant differences in the process of litigation when HMRC is your opponent. Understanding those differences is essential when formulating the strategic approach to the dispute. This is not to say however that commercial litigation practice is of no relevance; increasingly there is a tendency for the tax courts to look to the …

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Roll the dice

The In-House Lawyer (IHL): How has market uncertainty impacted London’s commercial litigation market over the past year, and how do you expect this to evolve?