Osborne Clarke has advised the venture capital company Brandenburg Kapital GmbH on its participation in the Pre-Series A financing round for the HR tech start-up DearEmployee. Healthy and motivated employees are what every company wants – not only, but also because these are, among other things, the best prerequisites for...

In January 2023 our Osborne Clarke Knowledge Lawyers made their business law predictions for 2023 . Here, we see how those predictions are faring. General We thought that " businesses and their advisers are likely to sharpen their focus on the Opposition's emerging plans for the economy " – perhaps...

International legal practice Osborne Clarke LLP has advised RM plc, a leading supplier of technology and resources to the education sector, on the sale of its school Management Information System (MIS) business – known as RM Integris and RM Finance (along with RM Accounts and Access Education Budgeting) – to...

The long-delayed transition of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) into the new body the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA) was initially intended to have been fully implemented during the course of this year, but is now expected in the course of 2024. The implementation of ARGA is intended to...

DMA designation On 6 September, the European Commission designated six big tech companies as gatekeepers in relation to 22 core platform services, which include tech services such as social media platforms, operating systems, ad tech and marketplaces. This was done in line with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). For an...

Sanctions compliance continues to challenge businesses operating in the UK and particularly those in the payments and fintech sectors. Those challenges are likely to be amplified by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), which recently exercised new enforcement powers and the publication of guidance by the Financial Conduct Authority...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), in its much-anticipated market study report into the housebuilding sector in England and Wales published earlier this week, would seem to have granted a momentary reprieve for the practice of so-called "land banking" but delivered a scathing assessment of the planning system. Alongside the...

A new (lower) bar for dawn raids on domestic premises Surprise regulatory inspections, or "dawn raids", naturally took a back seat during the pandemic and are now back on the rise – with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also having to grapple with how to carry out dawn raids...