Legal Updates & Insights

Mar 2019

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There are now three main avenues: UK leaves on 29 March 2019 without a deal UK asks, and the EU Member States agree unanimously, to extend the Brexit negotiating period beyond 29 March 2019...

Mar 2019

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By any measure, 2018 was a historic year for data protection law with the coming into effect of the GDPR on 25 May 2018. Ireland plays an important role in the regulation and...

Mar 2019

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Most employers will at some point have faced a problematic employee relationship, often triggered by grievance complaints, disciplinaries, capability issues or sickness absence. Sometimes the easiest and quickest 'solution' to...

Mar 2019

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The application of the State aid rules in the context of sport has involved a number of high-profile cases and measures. The application of the State aid rules has also...

Mar 2019

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Cross-border distribution, PRIIPs, PEPPs, ESMA (2019 work, reform, speeches, UK CCPs, UK CSD in a no-deal Brexit), liquidity stress testing, AML/CTF...

Mar 2019

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Deadlines, Brexit (location, EMIR, UK AIFMs, MoUs, GDPR, EMIR), Beneficial Ownership of Trusts.

Mar 2019

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Are there any Brexit planning implications at portfolio level for Irish UCITS?

Feb 2019

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The British and Irish governments have recently published details of their contingency planning for an Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The overall theme...

Feb 2019

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The Government has published updated guidance on arrangements for EEA and Swiss citizens coming to the UK to visit, study, work or join family in the event of a 'no...

Feb 2019

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Part 8 of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019 relates to insurance.   UK insurers and insurance intermediaries that will still have Irish business (i...