Osborne Clarke's best legal reads of the week - October 19 - 23
Published on 23rd Oct 2015
What are the top reads of the week around the web written by Osborne Clarke people? Which posts have been shared the most via social?
Here’s the best legal reads of the week…
Our regular quoted company legal news update is back. In our October edition, we cover a number of topics including EU cross-border mergers, the UK’s market abuse regime and an Action Plan for the Capital Markets Union. You can read it here.
As the world becomes more and more reliant on technology and “the digital economy becomes increasingly the economy itself”, the OECD has tried to tackle head on the tax challenges the digital economy poses. As we discussed earlier this month, the final BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project) recommendations suggest significant reforms to international taxation to account for the online and digital world we live in, as well as prevention of tax avoidance strategies that certain large multinationals use to reduce their tax bill. Read the full update here.
Here at Osborne Clarke we have been working with our clients in the Student Accommodation sector for over 15 years. In that time we have seen Student Accommodation in the UK evolve into the institutionally accepted asset class it is now. Last week (15 October) Osborne Clarke’s Brussels office hosted a roundtable discussion to analyse the opportunities offered by the rapidly growing Student Accommodation markets in other European countries with particular regard to what has already been achieved in the UK market. Read the round-up of the event here.
Investors in reserve energy generation are to be locked out of the tax-advantageous Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) under planned amendments to the Finance Bill 2015-16 currently making its way through Parliament. Read about the changes here.
On 20 October 2015, the Dutch national competition authority (the ACM) confirmed its decision that investment firms can be fined for anti-competitive actions by businesses in which they invest, if it can be shown that the investment firms exercise ‘decisive influence’ over the business involved. Read more about the decision here.
In the latest edition we focus on the connected consumer: defined by the new technologies, applications and disruptive businesses that cater for (and involve) today’s mobile, always-on and often collaborative consumers. With technology, know-how and data at the heart of these changes, IP has a central role to play in catering for the connected consumer. Read the update here.
