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LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
The Working Time Directive of the European Union (the Directive) is a collection of regulations concerning hours of work, designed to protect the health and safety of workers. “Workers” includes employees, most... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Immigration Alert
Immigration Practice
The UK government has recently announced that a new immigration system for sponsoring foreign nationals (that is, foreign nationals who are not from one of the countries that make up the European Economic Area, or “non-... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
On 22 October 2008, the European Parliament approved the Temporary Agency Workers Directive whereby temporary agency workers (temps) will be entitled, from the commencement of their employment, to the same trea... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice
On 1 October 2008, the Companies Act prohibition under English law on the giving of financial assistance by a private company for the acquisition of its shares will be repealed.
Section 151 of the Comp... more
Outside Publications | Article
Anthony Warnock-Smith, Natalie Kingston
LawFlash/Client Alert | Securities Industry FYI
Securities Industry Practice
In the light of responses to its 2007 consultation paper on the disclosure of Contracts for Differences (CP07/20), the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided to implement a general disc... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance Practice
On 13 June, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK announced the introduction of new provisions in its Code of Market Conduct which will require the disclosure of “significant” short positions in stoc... more
Outside Publications | Article
Simeon Spencer
Outside Publications | Article
Robert Goldspink
LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance
The Companies Act 2006, which partly consolidates and partly revises English company law, is being implemented in a number of stages. As part of the latest implementation, which became effective on 6 April 2008... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance
The Companies Act 2006, which partly consolidates and partly revises English company law, is being implemented in a number of stages. As part of the latest implementation, which becomes effective on 6 April 200... more
Outside Publications | Article
Robert Goldspink, Emma O'Kane
Presentation | Speech
Catherine McLoughlin, Keith Black
LawFlash/Client Alert | Business and Finance LawFlash
Business and Finance
On December 22, 2006, the UK Government published The Companies (Registrar, Languages and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2006. Under the Regulations, from January 1, 2007, existing and new companies formed and register... more
White Paper | Morgan Lewis White Paper
Catherine McLoughlin, Anthony Warnock-Smith, Keith Black
For businesses in any industry, the European Union (EU) is a market force to be reckoned with. Currently made up of 25 Member States, the EU is the world’s largest economy by gross domestic product, and it is the third l... more
Presentation | Webcast
Kenneth Turnbull, François Vergne, Simeon Spencer, Walter Ahrens
The European partners of Morgan Lewis's International Employment Practice discussed the impact of the latest European age discrimination legislation:
- Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 in the UK <... more
White Paper | Morgan Lewis White Paper
Jon Gerty, Robert Falkner
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FSMA”) gives the FSA significant powers to impose a variety of sanctions on firms and individuals for breaches of rules under FSMA and other legislation. The FSA can publicly... more
White Paper | Morgan Lewis White Paper
Jon Gerty, Robert Falkner
On 1 July 2005, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulation 2005 (the “Regulations”) came into force in order to implement the EC Directive on Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation (Market Abuse) ... more
Presentation | Webcast
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Simeon Spencer, Walter Ahrens