04/20/2023
Doing business in the UAE: an introduction
The UAE is a federation of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al-Khaimah, Shajah and Umm Al Quwain.
Government Regulation
04/20/2023
The Guernsey Regulators FAQS on Part II Licenses Under the LCF Law
Even where a book of loans is in run off, the provider will not automatically be entitled to an exemption from the requirement for a licence.
04/19/2023
Guidance for UK employers on voluntary ethnicity pay gap reporting
The government published the guidance earlier this week. It largely reflects the methodology used for gender pay gap reporting, while recognising the additional complexity of comparing pay across more than two groups of employees.
04/18/2023
EU – The CJEU considers the application of the GDPR to civil litigation
The CJEU decided that any processing of personal data, including processing carried out by public authorities such as courts, must be based on a legal ground under Article 6 GDPR.
04/18/2023
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards from Asia in Offshore Jurisdictions
As this article demonstrates, there are a number of strategies that can be adopted to enforce judgments and arbitral awards in the BVI, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and to challenge their enforcement.
04/18/2023
Hogan Lovells appointed Monitor to oversee compliance with policing agreement between DOJ and City of Cleveland
Hogan Lovells Partner Karl A. Racine will lead the monitoring team.
04/17/2023
FCO one step closer to obtaining unprecedented intervention powers following governmental approval of draft German competition law reform
The draft will now enter the legislative procedure.
04/17/2023
How to apply for a British Virgin Islands virtual asset service provider licence
The Act contains a prohibition that no person should carry on, in or from within the British Virgin Islands, the business of providing a virtual asset service without being registered by the regulator in that regard.
04/17/2023
The New Commercial Planning and Environmental division of Ireland's High Court that becomes effective from today
This new list will hopefully alleviate delays and will enable more efficient management by the Courts of the broad range of planning and environmental cases
04/17/2023
Western Australia closes consultation on draft decarbonisation bill
CCS involves the capture of greenhouse gases from carbon intensive industries, such as mining and oil and gas, and injecting those greenhouse gases back into the ground, with the intent of offsetting the total emissions from those industries.
04/17/2023
Recent changes to Jersey's AML/CFT regime – a user-friendly summary and FAQs
Existing entities which were previously out of scope have until 30 June 2023 to comply with the new regime.
04/17/2023
Online tool to determine if the recent changes to Jersey's AML/CFT regime applies to an entity
This tool has been developed in connection with the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999
04/17/2023
Public Holidays - Can You Require an Employee to Work
With ANZAC Day fast approaching, employers should take careful note of this decision and consider whether any requests for employees to work on that day are, in fact, reasonable.
04/17/2023
UK government confirms new corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud Significant development for corporate criminal liability
This new offence would be a game changer for law enforcement – bringing the law on fraud in line with bribery.
04/14/2023
‘Failure to prevent’ fraud offence to apply in UK to large organisations
The move comes at a time when fraud has been calculated to account for 41% of all recorded crimes in the UK.
04/14/2023
Cayman Islands: recovery of foreign attorneys' fees for successful litigants
The Cayman Islands does permit foreign attorneys to be admitted on a temporary basis
04/14/2023
The reuse and transfer of data held by public sector bodies under the EU Data Governance Act
The new legal framework arising from DGA should improve the flow of data within European cross-sectoral value chains and create specific data common spaces in various sectors of the economy.
04/14/2023
New UK "failure to prevent fraud" offence
Significantly, anti-money laundering offences are not included.
04/13/2023
BVI update to the Economic Substance rules
The ITA issued such rules (the “ES Rules”) on 9 October 2019, and these wereupdated on 10 February 2020.
04/13/2023
The use of British Virgin Islands Trusts in the Middle East
The BVI specialist trust legislation is the Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act (VISTA), which disengages certain traditional trustee duties in relation to certain trusts that own shares in BVI companies.