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A FRANDly Forum? The Growing Role Of Arbitration In SEP Disputes
Standard-essential patent disputes reveal a fundamental tension between territorial patent rights and global technology markets. While patents are enforced nationally, the standards they protect operate across borders, triggering parallel proceedings in multiple jurisdictions. FRAND arbitration offers a potentially coherent alternative by allowing parties to place international SEP portfolios before a single specialist tribunal, though questions of consent, validity, competition law and enforceability compl
United Kingdom IP
Aceris Law
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A Single Remuneration Code For UK FCA Solo-regulated Firms: Unpacking CP26/27
The Financial Conduct Authority is proposing to replace three overlapping remuneration codes with a single, outcomes-focused framework for UK solo-regulated firms. The reforms would shift away from prescriptive rules toward greater flexibility in designing pay structures, while maintaining robust governance expectations and reducing compliance burdens for investment firms and asset managers.
United Kingdom Employment
AO
A&O Shearman
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Key Takeaways | Mastering Multi-Dimensional Risk: Litigation, Compliance & Cross-Border Investigations 2026
Regulatory and enforcement landscapes across the UK, France and Italy are converging around a fundamental question: can organisations demonstrate that risk management is truly embedded in their governance and operations? Drawing on insights from a Milan roundtable featuring compliance leaders from ENI, Assicurazioni Generali, UniCredit and RSM Italy, this analysis explores how sanctions, anti-money laundering, fraud, ESG and corporate governance have evolved from separate disciplines into deeply interconnec
Worldwide Commercial
SR
McDermott Will & Schulte
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UK National Security and Investment Regime: Government Publishes Latest Annual Report
The UK government's 2025/26 annual report reveals significant shifts in the National Security and Investment Act's operation, with notification volumes climbing 15.8% while intervention rates drop to historic lows. Despite longer review timelines and increased scrutiny of certain investor origins, 98.9% of transactions proceeded without government intervention, raising questions about the regime's scope and effectiveness.
United Kingdom Government
GP
Goodwin Procter LLP
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