Clifford Chance

A Brexit transition period - wasting asset or business necessity?

26 October 2017

The UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019 and it is now just over a month since Theresa May, the UK Prime Minister, sought to give new momentum to the Brexit negotiations and talked in Florence about the need for an implementation period so that businesses and public services only have to plan for one set of changes. Mark Poulton, Head of Corporate, London, discusses with Clifford Chance experts the timeline for achieving the proposed implementation or transition period, the legal challenges involved, the implications for trade and for multinational businesses outside the financial services sector more generally.

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