At its outset, the case before the UK High Court in Getty Images v Stability AI looked set to provide a definitive outcome to the copyright debate dividing “two warring factions” (as the trial judge put it)—the creative industries and the AI industry. However, those hopes faded when Getty Images dropped its primary infringement claim at the end of the trial in June 2025, following insufficient evidence that Stability AI's generative AI model, Stable Diffusion, had been trained within the UK.
Travers Smith has advised long-standing client Basalt Infrastructure Partners on the sale of Manx Telecom Group to a strategic partnership of CVC DIF and Jersey Telecom. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals. Manx Telecom is the incumbent digital-infrastructure platform on the Isle of Man, offering broadband, fixed line, mobile, and secure data services to residential, business, and public sector customers.
For several decades, policy-makers have differentiated between a population's lifespan (or life expectancy) and its healthspan (meaning the number of years of healthy, active, disease-free life). Across the Western world, increases in lifespan have generally not been matched by increases in healthspan. Having access to the right housing, in the right location and at the right price is part of the formula for healthy ageing.
The UK Government has issued an open call for evidence asking for examples of where UK regulation inhibits growth, innovation and investment. This is a good opportunity for businesses to make the case for Government to look again at aspects of law or regulation which may be well-intentioned, but are disproportionate in their effects.
Overturning the decision of the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court has confirmed in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II [2025] UKSC 28 that a person can be liable to pay equitable compensation where they dishonestly assist a director in dissipating unauthorised profit.
Travers Smith has advised longstanding client Investec on the provision of upsized senior debt facilities to support Triple Private Equity-backed Legal Benchmarking Group (“LBG”) in its strategic acquisition of The Lawyer, a leading UK legal business intelligence platform, which has been acquired from Centaur Media.
With the "go live" date for regulation of heat networks fast approaching (27 January 2026), network operators - and some landlords - need to make sure they're prepared for the new regime.
Travers Smith has advised RBS International on the provision of an €80m NAV facility to Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (“FEIP”). The facility will support FEIP's continued development of its portfolio of renewable energy and enabling infrastructure assets.