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Dechert invites HR professionals, managers and in-house counsel to take a short break, over a coffee or cup of tea, and join us over the next few weeks to consider various current employment law issues. This broadcast series covers a diverse range of topics - equal pay, subject access requests, homeworking, philosophical beliefs in the workplace, consultation with employees and the management of holiday entitlements – and each broadcast runs for approximately 10 - 15 minutes. Episode Four: Information and Consultation of Employees The fourth episode of this series provides an introduction to the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, which employees may seek to invoke more often now that the threshold level of employee support for requiring an employer to negotiate information and consultation arrangements has been reduced. To read the supporting OnPoint for Episode Four, please click here.  

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) is due to come into effect from 10 March 2021. Before this date, in scope asset managers and other financial market participants will need to take a number of actions, such as updating their internal policies and procedures, ensuring that certain content is published on their firm website (including information on their approach to integrating sustainability risks into their investment management decision-making process), and updating the disclosure in their fund and other product documentation. For this webinar, our guest speaker, Tatjana Greil Castro, Muzinich & Co. Limited and Dechert lawyers will provide an overview of the key requirements under SFDR followed by a discussion of practical considerations for European and non-European asset managers in implementing these requirements. Topics to be covered include: The key requirements arising under SFDR. What compliance with the firm and product-level disclosure could look like. How to distinguish between "dark green", "light green" and other products. What the operative and practical challenges are. For questions related to this webinar, please contact Paula Amos. 

Dechert LLP is delighted to invite you to the 8th Global Merger Conference. The 2020 edition will be going ahead as a virtual conference, with a series of three webinars from Wednesday, December 2nd and until Friday, December 4th. Join us for an in-depth overview of the latest news and issues on mergers from an antitrust point of view. Our speakers will in particular discuss the following topics: The ECJ Three/O2 ruling: everything changed?  Non-horizontal mergers: towards a review? In-house counsel showcase session (level playing field, market definition, mergers which do not meet thresholds, non-competition law condiderations...) Closing discussion - The Brussels’ minute: the COVID-19 changes that could last long-term; and some reflections on 30 years of EU Merger Control This event is organized by Concurrences Review, with the support of Dechert, Charles River Associates and Frontier Economics. Click here to access the detailed conference program.