Clifford Chance

This briefing summarises the law and asks what it means in practice for business in the run-up to the election.

This briefing considers the challenges for Libra in the face of the financial crime concerns that have been raised since its announcement.

Clifford Chance experts assess the changing regulatory landscape as the Chinese government puts quality and affordability at the centre of its healthcare policy agenda.

A deliberate design feature of Bitcoin is that it enables users to buy or sell anything without revealing their identity. Yet, paradoxically, all Bitcoin transactions are stored publicly and permanently on blockchain. Now, as seen in recent cases, enterprising US prosecutors and private plaintiffs’ lawyers are using software called Blockchain explorer to crack Bitcoin’s anonymity. 

This publication reflects the breadth and depth of the impact of environmental and sustainable factors. It looks at the impact of regulatory and legislative sustainability changes on, amongst others, corporates, banks and asset managers; the rise of climate change litigation and the developments in "green" and sustainable financial products across the world.

This paper considers how, as a legal matter, nationalisation would work, and the legal constraints that in practice limit a Government’s ability to nationalise for less than full market value.