We are excited to once again be heading to the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference, this year hosted in Copenhagen (4 – 9 October). With more than 5,000 legal professionals attending ...

Sarah is a senior associate in the Funds and Financial Regulation team, having joined the firm in September 2024. With a decade of in-house experience at leading asset managers across France, the US, ...

While the issue has been known about for many years, particularly among environmental professionals and in other jurisdictions, PFAS has now started to emerge as one of the most significant issues in ...

With offices in Bristol, Edinburgh and London, we cover three UK jurisdictions through our strong UK presence. We have also dedicated considerable time and resources into building strong and deep ...

Hannah is an associate in the firm’s Real Estate team, having joined Burges Salmon in December 2024. She advises a broad range of clients, including corporate and institutional organisations, lenders, ...

The Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act (the "Act") received Royal Asset on 30 January 2024. The Scottish Government is yet to confirm when most of the Act will be coming into force although the ...

There have been two recent interesting updates in relation to automated decision-making (ADM). ADM occurs when data is fed to a programme to allow it to make a decision without requiring human ...

The Government has laid before Parliament a draft statutory instrument that seeks to change the regulation of waste carriers, brokers and dealers (“CBDs”).[1] Those operators currently have to ...

The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) is intended to update and strengthen UK consumer law. Whilst many of the consumer related changes relate to strengthening the ...

Advising on all aspects of financial crime: emergency response and crisis management, internal investigations and legal privilege, investigations and enforcement, risk prevention and compliance. We ...

The Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) was launched in 2022 and requires any overseas entity which is the legal owner of a UK property interest to report details of its “registrable beneficial owners ...

In the last year, it has been impossible to miss the discussion of domicile and the debate around the so-called “non-dom” status in the news cycle. The revelation that Rishi Sunak’s wife is non-UK ...