Deloitte

This Practice Note considers issues arising in multi-jurisdictional outsourcing arrangements, including offshore and nearshore transactions. Outsourced service provision is an established business strategy in most developed economies of the world and is increasing its prevalence in developing countries. This Practice Note considers a number of key issues specific to multinational or offshore outsourcing arrangements including the types of structure used in international outsourcing agreements, choice of law, employment, data protection and a number of other relevant issues.

This Practice Note considers the planning regime for energy storage in England and Wales. It explains what form of development is involved in energy storage, changes introduced to the planning regime for energy storage, and how energy storage schemes are consented in England and Wales within the planning regime.

This Practice Note considers the planning regime for offshore wind generation in England and Wales. It explains what form of development is involved in offshore wind energy generation, how offshore wind energy generation schemes are consented in England and Wales within the planning regime, relevant policy, and commonly imposed conditions.

This Practice Note considers the planning regime for onshore wind generation in England and Wales. It explains what form of development is involved in onshore wind generation, what consenting regime applies to onshore wind generation in England and Wales, key planning policy and related matters.

This Practice Note considers the planning regime for solar energy generation in England and Wales. It explains what form of development is involved in solar energy generation, how solar energy schemes are consented in England and Wales within the planning regime, relevant policy and commonly imposed conditions.

This Practice Note considers the relevance of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the Takeover Code) to awards granted by the target company under its employee share plans. It considers the bidder’s priorities when dealing with existing awards under the target’s employee share plans, and looks in particular at the Rule 15 proposals that the bidder is required to make. The note also deals with the considerations which will be relevant post-deal in structuring future incentive arrangements. This Practice Note is produced in partnership with Liz Pierson of Deloitte.