The updated Real Estate section of our Brexit Legal Guide is now available. This provides a useful overview of whether the negotiation of a new trading relationship between the UK and EU in the transition period may affect, amongst other things: Read more

Following the UK’s exit from the EU on 31 January 2020, we continue to update our Brexit Legal Guide 2020. This week we release the sections Capital markets, Contract and other obligations, Corporate law, Pensions, Real estate and Tax. This follows on from last week’s launch of the updated sections Leaving the EU: The process … Read more

Today our updated Brexit Legal Guide was released. Below is a message from our Chair and Senior Partner James Palmer which accompanied the updated guide. Dear clients and professional colleagues, The outcome of the June 2016 UK referendum on EU membership ushered in a period of increasing political turmoil in the UK. When I wrote … Read more

Paul Butcher and Tom Henderson have published an article in FERMA/AIRMIC’s joint Brexit Newsletter advising risk management professionals of some of the key matters that they will need to consider to prevent a Brexit-related “no deal” crisis. Given it remains uncertain whether the UK will enter a transitional arrangement with the EU lasting until end … Read more

As the clock ticks down to 29 March 2019, the UK and the EU are stepping up their preparations for the possibility of a “no-deal” outcome. From a corporate governance and risk management perspective, businesses that have not done so already should carry out a Brexit assurance process in order to identify all Brexit-related risks … Read more

As business makes increasingly vocal calls for legal certainty we are pleased to launch this updated Brexit Legal Guide. The new online guide will be regularly updated as the legal impact of Brexit evolves. Forthcoming updates will include reaction to the UK Government’s White Paper on its proposals for the future EU-UK relationship (expected week … Read more

The post below was first published on our UK Real Estate Development blog Author: Paul Chases, Partner and Head of Corporate Real Estate, London In this post, Paul Chases, a partner in the HSF London Real Estate team comments on his experience of the Shedmasters event at the MIPIM real estate conference, and on the direction of … Read more

The post below was first published on our UK Real Estate Development blog The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 came into force on 16 May 2017, implementing the 2014 EU Directive. Similar regulations have also come into force under the infrastructure planning regime. Largely, the new regulations are a fairly extensive and, in places, … Read more