Clifford Chance

Are insurers ready for Brexit?

24 July 2020

The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 with an 11-month transition period to agree on a free trade agreement (FTA). By passing up the opportunity to extend the 30 June deadline, the government has kept the UK on course to leave the transition period at the end of the year. Although the UK may want to step up the pace of negotiations with the EU on a FTA, the Coronavirus pandemic has potentially disordered the government’s economic and political calculations. A no-deal outcome, which once seemed very unlikely, now seems entirely plausible. 

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