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Tax rules for employment intermediaries - what this means for agencies and employment businesses
Inbrief
31 October 2022Over recent years a number of anti-avoidance measures have been introduced in a bid to tackle “disguised employment”. Disguised employment refers to those situations where arrangements are implemented to falsely treat employees or workers as self-employed, primarily to gain a tax or National Insurance Contributions (NICs) advantage.
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Digital Markets Act comes into force – what does it do?
27 October 2022The Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union and will enter into force on 1 November 2022 – but what does it do?
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Adidas follows Balenciaga in cutting ties with Ye - Alan Hunt comments for Vogue Business
Press
27 October 2022The German sportswear brand is ending production of its Yeezy collaboration with immediate effect, saying it “does not tolerate anti-semitism and any other sort of hate speech”.
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Hybrid working arrangements
Inbrief
26 October 2022Following the widespread experience of employees working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, some employers are starting to implement hybrid working arrangements on a longer-term basis.
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Restrictive covenants
26 October 2022In this article we explore restrictive covenants, what they are, their enforceability and their use in M&A deals in the advertising and marketing industry.
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Tax issues on earn-outs
26 October 2022Earn-outs are an extremely popular method of pricing businesses in the advertising and marketing sector.
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Earn-outs
26 October 2022In this article we explore so called “earn-out” deals: what they are; why they are used in private M&A transactions in the advertising and marketing industry; and some of the issues that they pose for both buyers and sellers.
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Ads & Brands Law Digest: October 2022
26 October 2022Welcome to the October 2022 edition of our Digest, covering legal and regulatory developments from the last few weeks relevant to advertising, marketing and brand-owning businesses. As usual, for each item we provide a succinct summary accompanied by a link to the full text of the relevant official source or our own report.
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The Bribery Act 2010 - an employment law perspective
Inbrief
26 October 2022In recent years there has been increasing focus on anti-bribery and corruption. The Bribery Act 2010 created a regime of criminal offences described by the Director of the Serious Fraud Office as “the toughest bribery legislation in the world”.
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Is it light at the end of the (transfer) tunnel? US “Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities” (and other matters)
26 October 2022On 7 October 2022 there were two significant announcements in the world of international data transfers.
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Bill to mandate minimum service levels during transport strikes published
25 October 2022Against a backdrop of prolonged national rail strikes, the government has proposed a complex new legal framework to ensure minimum service levels are maintained on transport services during industrial action.
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Home Office announces Autumn updates to Immigration Rules
24 October 2022On 18 October 2022 the Home Office published its Autumn Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules. The statement includes various reforms of interest to businesses. Notably, however, the new Rules do not include the proposed expansion of the Innovator route to partially address the gap left by the closure of the Tier 1 (Investor) route in February 2022.
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Lewis Silkin has advised the shareholders of Lola Post Production on its sale to Milk VFX
Deal
24 October 2022Lewis Silkin has advised BAFTA Award-winning visual effects company Lola Post Production on its sale to fellow studio Milk VFX.
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Lewis Silkin recognised with top rankings in Chambers UK 2023 for Employment, Media and Entertainment: Advertising and Marketing, Information Technology, and Intellectual Property
Press Release
20 October 202219 of our practices are ranked, and all our existing Band 1 practice rankings have been maintained. In addition we have 56 ranked individuals, six of whom are new entries. This strong performance follows similarly robust results in the Legal 500 UK earlier this month.
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Geraint Lloyd-Taylor comments for the Wall Street Journal
20 October 2022The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority received 45 complaints about HSBC's ads, including from Adfree Cities, which led the campaign against the bank.
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Digital Services Act (DSA) gets the green light – is your business ready for this ambitious new framework?
20 October 2022Against the backdrop of the explosion of digital services over the past few decades, an outdated legal framework for digital services dating back to 2000, an increasingly polluted information ecosystem and complex societal shifts which are making people more susceptible to misinformation and conspiracy, on 4 October 2022, the European Council approved the European Commission’s (EC) proposals on the DSA.
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Consultation must start early where a pool of one is inevitable
19 October 2022The EAT has ruled that it was unfair to dismiss an employee for redundancy when the employer chose a single selection criterion that inevitably led to a pool of one and did not consult about this beforehand. Consultation had started too late to impact the outcome.
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Ismail Hossain wins Lewis Silkin student essay competition
19 October 2022We are delighted to announce that Ismail Hossain, a year 13 student at Blackburn College, is the first winner of the Lewis Silkin annual student essay competition.
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Lewis Silkin has advised FremantleMedia, the multinational television production and distribution company best known for the ‘Got Talent’ franchise, on the IP that underlies this global brand.
19 October 2022As part of its portfolio of successful programme formats FremantleMedia co-owns the intellectual property with Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment in the Got Talent franchise. This includes the America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent formats which have been commissioned in over 70 territories worldwide.
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Legislative Void Leaves Firms Guessing on Ethnicity Pay Gaps - Tom Heys comments for Law360
Press
19 October 2022After explosive protests in 2020, ethnicity pay gap reporting has become a linchpin of diversity and inclusion policies for a growing number of employers. But, without formal reporting requirements from the government, lawyers say organizations that make the leap are in uncharted waters.