On January 15, 2019, the United States Supreme Court held in New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira that a trucking company could not compel its drivers, which it classified as independent contractors

On November 3, 2019, Pattern Energy Group Inc., a US publicly traded (Nasdaq and TSX: PEGI) vertically integrated renewable energy ...

Russia continues its anticorruption efforts in 2019. These efforts build upon numerous convictions last year.

On 30 April 2021, ministers in Saudi Arabia approved a new law, due to come into force in September of this year, which is designed to enhance the Kingdom's efforts to combat financial crime.

Over the last year, there has been a gradual narrowing of the Capital Market Authority's (CMA) formal Securities Advertisement exemptions, which foreign investment managers had become accustomed...

The United Arab Emirates (the UAE) has recently issued Federal Decree by Law, No. (36) of 2023 on the Regulation of Competition (the New Competition Law), which abrogates and supersedes the previous competition law, Law No. (4) of 2012 (the Repealed Competition Law).

It has increasingly become an attractive destination for the privately wealthy – for instance, Dubai is home to 120 of the world's wealthiest families and individuals with a combined net worth.

The Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has stated that recent high-profile corporate failures and accounting scandals have raised investors'

Resolving corruption problems found during international mergers and acquisitions should be more certain in the New Year.

The Supreme Court today held the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to the states. A wide variety of groups from the American Civil Liberties Union to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States supported the result.

The UK government last week issued a consultation on "extending redundancy protection for women and new parents".

The proposed extension of IR35 in April 2020 will make private sector businesses liable to deduct tax on payments to individual contractors operating ...

Over 240 people signed up for our IR35 webinar last Thursday. I would love to see this as a long-overdue recognition of my presentation skills

Although industrial relations did not heavily feature in the Coalition's election campaign, now that the dust has settled on its re-election the Government

In all the hoo-hah around the use of NDAs in settlement agreement, no one yet seems to have asked the question of what happens if you sign

This weekly update examines the newly enacted Pension Schemes Act 2026 and The Pensions Regulator's latest annual funding statement, which reveals that approximately 90% of defined benefit schemes are now in surplus on a technical provisions basis. The summary also covers emerging evidence on DC consolidation economies of scale, TPR's five-year corporate strategy consultation, and new HMRC guidance on inheritance tax treatment of unused pension pots.

The mood in the Conservative Party is bleak. Many of the political challenges with Brexit can be traced back to the 2017 election.

In this Tax Notes Podcast, our tax and public policy partner, Jeremy Cape, discusses the tax issues arising from Brexit.

Our research shows that 76% of manufacturers believe a no-deal Brexit would be disastrous to their business.

In a recent case, a New York federal court in one of the September 11, 2001 lawsuits against Al Qaeda granted plaintiff insurance carriers' motion for an award of damages on a default judgment...