In Counsel Update - Spring 2016

Welcome to the Spring edition of our In Counsel update. The topic on everyone's mind, the upcoming UK referendum on EU membership, features prominently in this issue. In three articles we examine the legal implications of a Brexit decision on certain legal areas, namely data protection and employment rights, and look at possible post-Brexit models for engaging with the EU.

We outline other recent legal developments affecting your business, in particular, what steps you need to take now to ensure your company's compliance with the PSC register regime, reflect on signs in the executive remuneration world that pressure is building for yet another "Shareholder Spring", and set out as a reminder what trading subsidiaries of charities need to consider when making donations to their parent organisation. We analyse, among other things, the implications for UK businesses of the EU's recently published Trade Secrets Directive, and look at when a private investigator needs to