Baker McKenzie’s 30th International Environment Conference will begin on 9 November 2021 and go until 30 November 2021. These 75-minute weekly webinars will include an overview of key regional differences and how governments approach the resolution of these challenges.
In the Asia Pacific Competition update, we provide you with a practical overview of the most notable antitrust legal developments of the third quarter in 2021 that may affect your business.
Following the recent publication of the UK Hydrogen Strategy, the UK Government has now published its Net Zero Strategy. As expected, low carbon hydrogen development is central to this strategy. At the core of the strategy is an ambitious goal of fully decarbonizing UK power systems by 2035.
In our updated and expanded Guide to Issues for Trades of Non-Performing Loans across Europe and China, we have selected some of the key legal and practical issues to be aware of when conducting a no-performing loan trade in jurisdictions that are strongly anticipated to be key areas of activity.
Major developments in disclosure of risks relating to sustainability have been announced. These developments accelerate a trend towards mandatory and comparable disclosures relating to climate risk and other sustainability issues.
The third day of COP2 focused on long-term climate finance. Scaled-up public finance commitments are critical to building trust between developed and developing countries, and enabling developing countries to deliver on the “conditional’ elements of their Nationally Determined Contributions.
In October 2021, the Medical Device Coordination Group published the Guidance on the classification of medical devices. In particular, the purpose of the Guidance is to ensure the proper application of the classification rules set forth in Annex VIII to the Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR).
As part of its post-Brexit trade policy, the UK has established its own independent trade remedies regime. Through its newly-formed Trade Remedies Authority, the UK can now investigate claims of unfair import practices from UK businesses and determine whether the UK Government should introduce trade remedy measures – including anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties and safeguard measures – onto imports into the UK.
The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations limiting the IRS’s ability to hire private attorneys as contractors. The final regulations, published on 7 September 2021, finalize proposed regulations published on 7 August 2020.
On 28 October, Baker McKenzie International Human Rights lawyer was joined for a conversation with Canada’s first Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise Sheri Meyerhoffer, to explore the mandate of the Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise.