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The Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority, («ASF») submitted for public consultation a Draft Regulatory Standard on the governance structures of pension funds. The Draft Regulatory Standard has, as its mai ...

Decree-Law No. 31/2022, of 6 May, was published, approving the Legal Regime for Covered Bonds and transposing Directive (EU) 2019/2162 and Directive (EU) 2021/2261. Among the changes introduced by the new regime, we hig ...

Welcome to our monthly NFT litigation roundup. As the rise of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) continues to soar, so too do the questions, legal issues and disputes around them. When faced with such a high growth phenomenon, ...

The Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority, («ASF») approved on 26 April 2022 the Regulatory Rule no. 4/2022-R, which establishes the general requirements and principles that should govern the development of ...

Authors: Tim O’Callaghan, Travis Shueard In Commissioner of Patents v Thaler [2022] FCAFC 62, the Full Federal Court has unanimously held that an AI cannot be named as an inventor for the purposes of a patent appl ...

Authors: James Macdonald, Sarah Clarke ESG factors are becoming increasingly important not only as an aspiration but also operationally. Boards genuinely implementing ESG founded strategy can derive long term sustaina ...