Osborne Clarke - Netherlands has assisted Marel Hf. ( Marel ), with Dutch regulatory advice in relation to Marel's transaction with John Bean Technologies Corporation ( JBT ). Marel is a multinational food processing company based in Iceland, holding a listing at Nasdaq Iceland and Euronext Amsterdam. The transaction (EUR...

The UK Supreme Court's judgment in Paccar Inc & Ors, R (on the application of) v Competition Appeal Tribunal & Ors in October 2023 had significant implications for litigation funding agreements (LFAs). The Supreme Court determined that the LFAs applicable in the proceedings were to be construed as the litigation...

TPT publish sector-specific guidance The Transition Pathway Taskforce (TPT) has published its final set of sector-specific guidance to assist companies in preparing climate transition plans. There is specific guidance for asset owners, asset managers, banks, electric utilities and power generators, food and beverage, metals and mining, and oil and gas...

Ofcom publishes call for evidence on additional duties for categorised services under the Online Safety Act 2023 Ofcom has published a call for evidence to inform its codes of practice and guidance on the additional duties that will apply to categorised services under the Online Safety Act 2023 . This...

New regulations which liberalise (to some extent) the rules governing what companies and LLPs can call themselves, and the trading disclosures they have to make, will come into force on 31 January 2015. Overview Although the Companies Act 2006 was intended to simplify company law, the rules governing company and...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few months, you’ll know that the Safe Harbor framework, which previously facilitated EU-US data transfers, is no longer valid. It will likely be replaced by a new EU-US Privacy Shield, but until that’s fully implemented there remains a degree of...