Among soaring temperatures and political rifts, the U.K. government introduced its Energy Bill on 6 July 2022. The Bill is currently at committee stage in the House of Lords and the ...

On 28 July 2022, the Law Commission of England and Wales (the "Commission") published a consultation paper on digital assets (available here, the "Paper") signalling the need for law reforms in several areas.

U.S. and non-U.S. companies continue to face a more challenging environment in complying with U.S. international trade laws...

Two separate tracks of potential new U.S. sanctions against Russia, if adopted in full, portend a sharply more restrictive regime of U.S. trade and financial restrictions on Russia.

In a post last week, we noted that nearly half of Americans make New Year's resolutions and that people who make resolutions are ten times more likely to attain their goals...

The European Union (EU) and the UK made statements on the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, emphasising the importance of sanctions enforcement...

The High Court of Justice in London recently issued a judgment on the question of whether or not an artificial intelligence invention falls within the ambit of "a program for a computer … as such".

As a general rule, U.S. federal law prevents people with judgments against foreign countries to satisfy those judgments against the countries' assets in the United States.

On 14 March 2022, the U.K. Parliament passed the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (the "Act") in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are the latest trend in the digital ledger technology space and present tremendous economic potential.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA [2022] UKSC 25 has ruled on the point at which company directors must have regard to the interests...

Today, Bybit announced it is proactively suspending its services in the UK ahead of new cryptocurrency marketing rules set to be enforced by the country's financial regulator...

The increasing focus on environmentally sustainable business and climate change has thrown a spotlight on conduct and profits in industries seen as direct and indirect contributors...

Entities with ongoing business involving either Russia or Ukraine should carefully and regularly monitor the status of existing sanctions regulations and designations, which are subject to rapid change.

Once upon a time, part of a young man or woman's rite of passage into adulthood was a summer internship.

Global events in the last two years have been anything but ordinary. The world succumbed to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the trade war between the United States and China does not appear to be relaxing...

In the twelve months prior to the UBS takeover, Credit Suisse had lost 75% of its value with $75 billion of customer deposits lost in the first quarter of 2023...

As generative AI tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Dall-E, Meta's Llama, and Anthropic's Claude become ever more capable and more mainstream...

In a previous post we reported on the European Union's provisional agreements on (1) the Transfer of Funds Regulation extending anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to the transfer...

The UK Supreme Court has yesterday, by a majority of 8-3, dismissed the Government's appeal against the Divisional Court's judgment in November 2016 which held that the Government could not give notice...