New world
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‘The current market is very different to what it was like this time last year. There are many more opportunities for investors to be looking at, and that will only become greater as the year develops.’
The pandemic has transformed legal work… to an extent. But the journey must continue
Legal Briefing
I was interviewed last year about how our legal department coped with the pandemic hit. I talked about how we adapted to remote work far better than expected, and the big role that tech played in making it all pretty seamless. That type of story is well told now. But, let’s be honest, there are …
On your toes
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Tumultuous is possibly an understatement when describing the past few years, not least the global Covid-19 pandemic proving a major game-changer socially, culturally, economically and politically. Significant shifts in all these categories of life have had profound employment law implications, pushing it ever higher up the corporate agenda.
The harder line
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Andrea Coscelli’s leadership of the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has been highly consequential. Since his appointment in 2016, the agency has become one of the most interventionist competition agencies in the world, challenging more than 30 transactions, including transactions that had little nexus to the UK and, in some cases, had been approved by …
Staying on top of employment law risks | TLT
Legal Briefing
In 2019, I felt compelled to launch a podcast that went beyond case updates and tackled some of the increasingly complex and challenging issues that HR and legal teams are facing. At the time, the media was aflush with issues such as the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the #MeToo movement and LGBTQ+ rights and this was …