From Travers Smith

In the second episode of this series, Partner Mahesh Varia, Senior Associate Claire Prentice and Trainee Michelle Soo from our Tax team, discuss the potential reforms to the tax treatment of individuals who are not UK-domiciled ("non-doms") in the upcoming Autumn Budget 2024. They cover the Labour party's election manifesto, updates by the new Labour government since winning the election and what we might expect in the Budget.

In the first episode of our series From Manifesto to Budget, Tax Partner Elena Rowlands, and Senior Associates Tom Margesson and Sarah Roman from our Asset Management Tax team provide an overview of the carried interest tax rules and discuss what measures the Government might introduce in the upcoming Autumn Budget 2024 to close what it has termed the "carried interest loophole". 

Partner Ailie Murray from our Employment team, and Senior Counsel Harriet Sayer from our Pensions team together sit down with Barbara Wilson, Founder and Director of Working With Cancer – an organisation comprised of trainers, coaches and policy advisors who are senior professionals from a wide range of industries with experience living with cancer, bringing insight to support others enduring the same.

Ailie and Harriet share their personal experiences of being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer while at work. They discuss the potential obstacles to sharing this type of diagnosis at work and how employers can help to create a supportive environment, with reference to Travers Smith's recently established internal Cancer Support Network, and the Working With Cancer pledge which aims to make workplaces more supportive for those diagnosed with or impacted by cancer.

Listen to the introduction to What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 111.

Listen to our podcast LGBT+ equality and inclusion in law.

Thanks to Jonathan Fritz, Laura L. Chapman – Partner, Sheppard Mullin, Ignacio Corbera Dale – Partner, Garrigues and Dr. Martin Viciano Gofferje – Partner, Gleiss Lutz for their participation in this podcast.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month, colleagues from across the firm have recorded a podcast to share their personal stories of culture, language, food and family from across South Asia.   

Listen to the introduction to What's Happening in Pensions - Issue 110.

In this episode, Partners James Longster from our Technology & Commercial Transactions team and Samuel Brewer from our Financial Services & Markets team explore how AI is being used in the financial sector, the key financial services regulatory considerations for firms, and some practical regulatory points that firms using AI should be addressing now.

For more information on some of the topics discussed in this episode, see our briefings on:

• the FCA and the Bank of England's "strategic approach" to AI; and
• the publication of the EU AI Act. 

In this episode, Partners James Longster, from our Technology & Commercial Transactions team and Ingrid Hodgskiss, from our Competition team, discuss the evolving landscape of the application of competition law to AI. They cover the UK Competition and Markets Authority's recent activity in the AI space, as well as other hot topics like the application of merger control regimes to AI partnerships, access to key inputs for generative AI and labour market practices.

In this podcast, corporate, employment and tax lawyers discuss some of the ESG policies featured in the manifestos of the political parties.