In this "Getting ready for pensions dashboards" series (recorded in February 2023), we discuss what actions schemes need to take to prepare for pensions dashboards.

Pensions Radar is a quarterly listing of expected future changes in UK law affecting work-based pension schemes.

The General Code also includes new content on scheme governance: this relates to the broadening of internal controls requirements to require occupational pension schemes to "establish and operate an

As professional football approaches the end of the season, significant changes to UK unfair dismissal law loom on the horizon. From January 2027, the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims...

Welcome to our podcast summary of the latest issue of What's Happening in Pensions or WHIP. This is our regular update on pensions legal developments.

In a podcast, Ailie Murray and Harriet Sayer discuss their experiences with breast cancer while working, highlighting challenges of sharing a diagnosis and ways employers can foster a supportive environment, including Travers Smith's internal Cancer Support Network.

Phase 3 of the UK's Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) requires large companies to develop, implement, and annually update an "ESOS action plan" to reduce energy consumption, with the first submissions due by March 5, 2025. Additionally, the Labour Government's recent changes prioritize renewable energy, lifting the ban on onshore wind farms and advancing green infrastructure initiatives.

What are examples of biofuels? Why do we need them? And what are the legal risks associated with their use?

The UK government's new Energy Independence Bill promises to reshape the nation's energy landscape, but what will it actually deliver? With only cryptic references in the King's Speech and Labour Manifesto to guide us, the Bill's true scope remains uncertain—though it likely addresses planning acceleration for renewables, regulatory simplification, North Sea licensing clarity, and consumer protections.

Our second episode of Sustainability Insights … in conversation charts Kristen Weldon's journey to natural capital in private markets. Simon Witney and John Buttanshaw from Travers Smith's ESG team talk to Kristen about the importance of nature and

Continuation vehicles are typically structured as limited partnerships, with the investors (both rolling and new) constituting limited partners in the vehicle and the GP acting as manager of the vehicle.

Welcome to the second episode in our series of podcasts exploring the key legal issues relating to the development and use of artificial intelligence.

There is an increasing awareness of the huge potential that the "internet of things" offers to building management practices, from monitoring and controlling energy consumption for ESG purposes...

A wide variety of ESG claims are emerging in the UK and globally. Given the well-funded appetite to bring increasingly novel claims, businesses across all sectors, including the UK real estate sector, need to be alive to the risks facing them.

Since our last briefing, there have been several significant developments which affect the real estate sector, including amendments to previously announced policies...

Since last summer, the Law Commission has been reviewing the workings of the security of tenure regime within Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (the "LTA 1954").

The Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill was Gove's flagship scheme to mitigate the gap between deprivation and wealth in the UK, and was intended to lead to regeneration via planning reform.

In this episode, Simon Witney and Tom Gosling, Visiting Senior Fellow in the Law School at London School Economics and co-author of "Does Sustainable Investing Work?"...

In the second episode of our series focussing on Good Tax Governance, Hannah Manning from our tax team discusses the new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud (FTP).

As part of our Talking Sustainability podcast series we recently sat down with Sebastien Akbik from UNPRI to talk about how tax fits in to ESG and sustainability thinking and what good tax governance actually means.