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Travers Smith's Financial Services & Markets team have submitted a response to the Treasury consultation on the draft legislative package for the regulation of cryptoassets.
Travers Smith LLP is delighted to announce the winners of its 2024/25 CSR Art Awards. Set up in 2015, the firm's CSR Art Programme works with graduate artists from the University of Westminster and the Royal College of Art (RCA).
Since our last briefing, there have been a number of important tax developments which affect the real estate sector.
This article was first published in the May 2025 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.
The UK and the EU have agreed a "common understanding" on closer cooperation across a number of key areas. Following a period of difficult relations after Brexit, the mere fact that that both sides have committed to closer cooperation has obvious political significance. But what does the deal mean for business?
Welcome to our series of bitesize Energy & Infrastructure videos, where we will be providing digestible horizon scan updates on the key developments across ten different areas of sustainable infrastructure that we will see more of in the coming years.
Welcome to the fourth edition of Travers Smith's Outsourcing Spotlight. In this issue, we look at whether a possible change in the approach to equal pay could undermine incentives to outsource. We also discuss the implications of the UK Government's Immigration White Paper, new legislation on premises and consumer-facing outsourcings and take an in-depth look at longer term outsourcings.
In this short video, Rich Offord, Katie Hindley and Jonathan Rush highlight some of the key issues for customers when negotiating payment clauses in commercial contracts. Topics covered include common pitfalls when seeking to withhold payments in response to poor supplier performance and the importance of set off rights. We also discuss why some customers may need to devote more attention to whether they are paying their suppliers on time and the remedies specified in the contract for late payment.
With employer's National Insurance contributions (NICs) now at 15% and tax bands frozen, salary sacrifice arrangements are an increasingly popular choice for employees and employers looking to reduce their costs. These arrangements involve employees "sacrificing" their right to a portion of their pre-tax salary or bonus in exchange for non-cash benefits such as pension contributions and cycle-to-work schemes.
For managers (i.e. the Sponsor) of closed-ended private equity funds (including real estate or infrastructure funds), continuation vehicles offer the Sponsor an alternative to the traditional exit routes for investments.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
Travers Smith LLP has advised leading property finance specialist MSP Capital on £350 million of financing, comprising a £200 million securitisation facility from J.P. Morgan and £150 million of funding from existing funder Pollen Street Capital.