Financial services providers have been very active in maintaining essential services, managing their own duties as employers and managing operational and compliance risk in the COVID-19 environment.
COVID-19
It is lawful to lobby in Ireland. However, certain lobbying exercises must be disclosed in the lobbying register on www.lobbying.ie within certain statutory timelines otherwise businesses could be penalised or prosecuted.
COVID-19The European Commission has stressed that in order to achieve the EU's 2030 climate targets, approximately €180bn each year of additional investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy is needed – a key part of this is 'making the financial sector a powerful actor in fighting climate change'.
Energy & Natural Resources
The COVID-19 global crisis has brought cross border insolvencies into focus as companies consider the challenges that may arise where assets are situated across a number of jurisdictions and where an insolvency event may occur.
Aviation & Transport FinanceThe Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) policy was introduced on 1 April 2019 by the UK Government in line with The Companies (Directors' Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy and Carbon Report) Regulations 2018 coming into force.
Belfast
On Monday 20 April 2020 the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (the Scheme) opened for applications via the 'Government Gateway' portal. In just one week, over 387,000 applications have been made, covering 2.8m employees in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
COVID-19 Belfast
In life, it often happens that when someone shares an issue with a friend, they find that "the problem shared is a problem halved". That is a good outcome.
COVID-19
With the significant increase in the number of people working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of video-conferencing technologies and applications (VC Technology) by businesses for both internal and external meetings has seen a sharp increase.
Technology
On 16 April 2020, the Government published a further Order (the Extended Order) under the new section 251A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) (the Planning Acts), extending certain planning time periods during the COVID-19 emergency until 9 May 2020.
COVID-19
In this two part series for Bloomberg Law, San Francisco based partner Gina Conheady considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global Fintech sector.
Client Tech
The restrictions on the movement of people that were implemented by the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 have resulted in challenges for landlords of private residential properties.
COVID-19 BelfastDefendants in commercial litigation are often concerned that even if they win and are awarded their costs, they will never recover them from an impecunious claimant. Obtaining or resisting security for costs is strategically significant for each side
Disputes
