Katherine Evans | Senior Partner The European Union has developed comprehensive legislation which governs the use of AI within the EU. The UK by contrast has adopted a cross-sector and outcome-based framework for regulating AI, underpinned by 5 core principles. The UK Government’s position is that the UK wants to facilitate innovation, whilst also giving the UK Government the flexibility to …
Katherine Evans | Senior Partner What is a digital currency? On the one hand, a great deal of the money in our economy is digital. Numbers on balance sheets and bank ledgers move around the world with no actual physical paper exchanging hands. However, the value of the currencies is protected to a significant degree by the assets of the …
Right place, right time: Why Katherine Evans believes it’s sometimes better to be lucky than smart After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Katherine initially pursued a career in marketing and business development, before re-training to become a lawyer in her mid-twenties. After completing articles with Eversheds, she joined specialist shipbuilding practice, Mills & Co., where she remained until joining …
Katherine Evans | Senior Partner International Trade: Global and regional trade in the post pandemic The past 18 months were a huge shock to international trade as increasing protectionism and Covid-19 wrought havoc with all previous forecasts and economic roadmaps. Many business analysts predicted that the double whammy of protectionism and pandemic would spell an end to globalised trade. Indeed, …
Katherine Evans | Senior Partner The MENA region has huge commercial opportunities for businesses wanting to bring their products and services to new markets, as well as for businesses from within the region looking outwards for investment opportunities and international markets for their own products and services. This activity is only going to increase with the opening up of trade …
Katherine Evans | Senior Partner 8th January 2020. Brexit has given a perception to the world that the UK may no longer be open for business to the world, but the reality is that the UK remains a highly business friendly location for MENA headquartered corporations to set up their European operations. To start with, it is easy to set …
Katherine Evans | Senior Partner What is a distributed ledger? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues to enable the explosion of crypto-currencies, that we have seen over the last few years. As well as being the driving force behind Bitcoin, it has many other applications that make it useful and relevant to businesses in a range of industries. A distributed ledger …
What are virtual currencies? European Banking Authority (EBA) regards virtual currencies as being a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority nor necessarily attached to a regular currency, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of payment, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically. The leading …
VAT Reverse Charge Mechanism to apply to Certain Wholesale Supplies from 1st February 2016 Certain UK clients have asked me to explain the VAT rule changes for UK wholesale telecommunications supplies, and hopefully this blog will answer those questions. From 1st February 2016, providers of wholesale telecommunications services in the UK will no longer apply VAT to supplies to other …
Personal Use by Employees of Employer Systems: Mr Bogdan Barbulescu vs the State of Romania Mr Barbulescu used certain business systems to send personal messages in breach of his employer’s stated Policy in this regard. The Employer monitored employee communications to ensure compliance with its Policy. Mr Barbelescu was found to have been in breach of the Policy and was …