Just two months ago the absence of any offshore wind projects in the UK government’s contracts for difference (CfD) allocation round 5...

In the ESG space, best practice is often dictated by principles, frameworks and guidance – so-called ‘soft law’ – rather than black and...

In February, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) published its long-awaited draft guidance on the application of UK antitrust...

On 6 December 2022 the European Parliament and Council announced that they had reached political agreement[1] on a new regulation, first...

The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has published a position paper on the European Commission’s proposal for a directive on...

With COP27 starting next month, eyes are turning to both public and private businesses’ efforts to meet net zero by 2050 – and private...

In July, we published a briefing on how sustainability considerations are increasingly driving corporate behaviour. In this post, we look...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) has recently announced that it has launched investigations into a number of fashion...

Whilst we wait for the Government to bring in legislation to strengthen the UK’s corporate governance, reporting and audit systems (see...

During the hectic schedule of London Tech Week - the flagship annual tech event in the UK – we were lucky enough to attend the...

Modern slavery[1] is a significant and growing problem. The number of live modern slavery police investigations in the UK has increased...

“Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prevoir, mais de le render possible” —  Citadelle (1948) Antoine de Saint Exupéry, ...

In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) published a Special Report on the urgency and scale of policy changes...