This article provides an overview of the International Sustainability Standards Board's inaugural sustainability disclosure standards. The standards are a significant step towards the development of a global baseline of corporate reporting standards on sustainability and climate change, integrated with financial reporting standards.
This article examines, from an English law perspective, the legal issues you need to be familiar with whether you are engaged in data scraping (either directly or through a third party), or if you are concerned that your content is being scraped and exploited without your consent.
This whitepaper provides an overview of the most important provisions of the NIS2 Directive, also known as the new version of the Network and Information Security Directive. NIS2 is a European directive aimed at strengthening cybersecurity in the European Union (EU).
This article discusses the Cyberspace Administration of China's (“CAC”) May 30, 2023 release of the long-awaited “Guidelines for the Filing of Standard Contracts Regarding Export of Personal Information (First Edition).
The guidelines provide clarity for organizations that are looking to rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to transfer personal information collected in Mainland China (“PRC Data”) to an offshore recipient.
It is inescapable: All companies, no matter the industry, face litigation risks through the day-to-day creation of documents.
"Bad" documents increase your exposure to risks and can threaten your business. This article discusses ways an organization can coach its employees to avoid those documents and instead create "smart" documents that help advance case themes and mitigate risk should litigation arise.
This guide provides an overview of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure obligations within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
The article provides a summary of seven United Kingdom bills that seeks to provide for new employment rights.
The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).
This article provides an overview of the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regime for packaging which will start on January 1, 2024.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) in March 2023 published the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill (“DPDI2”). DPDI2 aims to make a number of changes to the UK data protection regime.
This article discusses what this change actually means for business, both financially and legally.