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The UK Financial Services Bill 2020 was recently introduced to ensure that the UK's regulatory framework continues to function effectively following the UK's exit from the EU.

After six weeks of bruising election campaigning – not to mention recent years in which politics has strained the UK's long-founded reputation for consensus and stable policymaking – the nation wakes up on 5 July with a major shift in the landscape.

The new legislation is designed to monitor investments in companies and assets in the UK or abroad where there may be a UK national security risk.

The Scandinavian nations of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway are magnets for international businesses.

The Government has recently launched the Sovereign Venture Fund ('Sovereign AI'), a £500 million state-backed investment vehicle designed to support early-stage British AI companies with capital, compute...

The next UK government must support and engage with the manufacturing industry to help boost the country's economic and social well-being, industry leaders have said.

In recent months the growing phenomenon of off-shore outsourcing – particularly to India – has featured in many news headlines. One of the key factors underlying the decision to outsource off-shore is cost and India has rapidly captured a significant share of the US and European market for off-shore outsourcing, particularly for business process outsourcing ("BPO"), on the basis of low cost high quality&nbs

In recent years, several European Union (EU) Member States, as well as the EU itself, have reconsidered their approaches to foreign direct investment (FDI).

On 28 November 2023, the European Commission published the results of the evaluation of Regulation (EU) 2019/452 ("FDI Screening Regulation")...

The EU Quantum Act is a forthcoming regulation designed to turn the EU's Quantum Europe Strategy into law by creating a coordinated framework to align research programmes...

In the past decade, the Asia-Pacific region has been characterized by fast-growing, innovative economies that have presented substantial opportunity for U.S. companies.

"Brexit" – the departure of the UK from the European Union – has been approved by a majority of voters in the recent referendum.

In the mid-1930s Mahatma Gandhi in his pursuit of freedom for Indian society, established an ashram in a remote village, in the middle of India called Segaon. Segaon had no electricity but India's political elite would make their way there to talk to Gandhi in the dark about policy.

On 13 November 2023, the UK government published a call for evidence on the scope and operation of the UK's National Security and Investment regime, with the aim of making it as ‘pro business' and ‘pro investment' as possible.

As a newly qualified solicitor, I joined the nuclear industry in 1994 to advise on planning and environmental law. Since 1994, much has changed in the industry.

Foreign investors should, in the early planning stages of their investments, carefully assess risks resulting from these regulations.

In light of the new Labour Government's targeting of independent schools in respect to charging VAT and removing Business Rates Relief in the recent budget...

As the new Government seeks to finalise its legislative programme for the Queen's Speech on Wednesday (which is now expected to cover a two year period)...