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Welcome to our series of short webinars looking at recent developments in the world of employment law.

Welcome to our series of short webinars looking at recent developments in the world of employment law.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client, SSP Group, on its acquisition of AMT Coffee from its administrators in an accelerated transaction.

Travers Smith LLP is delighted to have received awards for Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year and ESG Initiative of the Year at Law.com's annual British Legal Awards. The Awards took place on 23 November.

This article was first published in Trust Law International (Bloomsbury Professional) at (2022) 3 TLI 103.

As COP27 drew to a close on the afternoon of Friday 18 November, following two weeks of the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, the first drafts of the COP27 agreement were published, but getting the deal finalised looked to be a difficult task.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry. 

In this briefing we explore the risk that a lender might renege (voluntarily or involuntarily) on its funding commitments. We touch on the different types of lender entities in the market currently and examine why there are often different reasons behind such a failure to fund.

In our latest Tax. Simplified. podcast episode, Tax Senior Associate Kaleem Khan and Associate Lewis Currie consider, at a high level, how some of the tax rules interact with the world of football (sometimes in surprising ways).

BlueCrest v. HMRC [2022] – First-tier Tribunal decision on application of the rules on salaried members of a LLP. 

Overview of the key concepts and issues to be aware of for both non-UK employers and UK employers with mobile employees coming to the UK to work and for employees working abroad. The session covers Pay As You Earn (PAYE), National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and immigration issues as well as going through illustrative examples.

In this podcast Jonathan Gilmour, Peter Hughes, John Lee and Adam Schnider consider the implications of the recent collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. They discuss some of the key issues that could arise from the insolvency of FTX or other crypto investment firms more generally, including priority of claims, proprietary rights in crypto-assets, tracing and recovery of crypto-assets, and cross-border insolvency issues.

Find the latest news, views and our analysis of all the key announcements.

HMRC v. Blackrock [2022] – Upper Tribunal decision on application of loan relationships unallowable purpose rule and transfer pricing rules to a debt pushdown structure.

Burlington v. HMRC [2022] First-tier Tribunal decision on the application of treaty purpose test applicable to the UK/Ireland double tax agreement.