Ben Packer

Partner @LinklatersLLP with a focus on investigations & litigation in financial services, tech & sport.

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The most challenging issues facing our clients often involve some form of #investigation - with regulators gaining increasingly broad powers and law enforcement authorities seeking to impose greater sanctions, what does this mean for businesses and their leaders? In our new…

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Hot on the heels of my last post, our Antitrust and Foreign Investment group have launched this fantastic hub for the EU's #DigitalMarketsAct: explaining all you need to know about the EU's new regulatory framework for large digital platforms. https://t.co/nd4O1QNqUW

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CreateiQ have joined with TLB, a design-focused, legal operations consultancy specialising in legal transformation, to provide a cutting edge offering of holistic solutions, delivered at pace, to address clients’ legal, process and technological needs. https://t.co/ShJgJC8Iw0

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@benlfpacker, Elly Proudlock and Sara Trainor produced an overview of the white collar crime laws and regulations applicable in the UK in the latest Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide – White Collar Crime @IHL_magazine @thelegal500 #whitecollarcrime #businesscrime

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The European Parliament has given assent to the #digitalservicesact, a landmark piece of legislation that will introduce a range of new obligations for #tech companies and online platforms. Guillaume Couneson comments on the latest developments in Global… https://t.co/aKDzZG1hMl

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We are pleased to launch Banking Litigation 2022: A look ahead, which explores the key themes likely to shape legal risks faced by #banks and #financialinstitutions over the coming year.

Read the full guide on our website below.

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Where do we expect to see innovation in the legal sector in 2022? Read our 8-page Innovation Outlook to find out, including a part I was delighted to contribute to on the future of legal design. https://t.co/vSjhXJz1oV

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The Legal 500 Comparative Guide on White Collar Crime has recently been launched. Elly Proudlock, Sara Trainor and I are delighted to have written the chapter for the UK. The chapter provides a neat overview of the key laws and regulations that cover… https://t.co/SDpeL34KuY

[Ben Packer @benlfpacker]

The Legal 500 Comparative Guide on White Collar Crime has recently been launched. Elly Proudlock, Sara Trainor and I are delighted to have written the chapter for the UK. The chapter provides a neat overview of the key laws and regulations that cover… https://t.co/SDpeL35ikw

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Our fully-updated review of anti-bribery and corruption laws and enforcement is now out. Here, we draw together the key themes in how 22 key jurisdictions are tackling financial crime and consider possible future developments in each. https://t.co/3xdnIF8pXc

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The potential for money laundering and #sanctions #risk in the context of high-value art and antiquities transactions is attracting increasing scrutiny from #regulators across the globe. Watch our short animation on the financial crime risks that can… https://t.co/pgWFNiUI7H

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Wednesday is the big day. At 9.45am, the Supreme Court will hand down its judgment in #LloydvGoogle. The Supreme Court will decide whether businesses have to compensate individuals for infringing their data privacy rights, even where those individuals… https://t.co/7cxF4QzfLF

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Following the UK government launching its first AI strategy last month, PSL Simon Treacy and Senior Associate Sophia Le Vesconte have written on the existing rules governing AI in the UK for financial services for Thomson Reuters. Read more here https://t.co/YcTCM3LEiV

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Another opt-out class action is given permission to proceed: this time for a claim by Mr Le Patourel as class representative against BT for alleged anticompetitive landline services pricing.

Our competition litigation experts look at the implications of… https://t.co/WK0jzfYSw7

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When will non-financial misconduct involving a lack of personal integrity (but not dishonesty) impact upon an individual's fitness and propriety to perform a financial services role?

In this podcast episode we discuss important guidance on this point… https://t.co/XNZO9yD44a

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Creating the right regulatory framework to address online harms is a uniquely difficult puzzle. However, new guidance on video sharing platforms provides a testbed for the wider reforms in the draft Online Safety Bill... https://t.co/kFlBdfGNj8

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Online Safety Bill: A compliance headache for tech firms https://t.co/twcCzRVDqg

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Our latest Global Business Crime podcast covers #cybercrime: who is behind cyber-attacks, how do they operate and how should organisations prepare? It was fascinating speaking to Erez Liebermann, Pete Church and FTI's Dave Harvey on this very topical… https://t.co/a6Zvwu0t95

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Privilege is one of those topics that seems to cause confusion and complexity often, particularly on matters which are international in nature. Does X jurisdiction recognise privilege as a concept? Does it matter if the lawyer is external or in-house?… https://t.co/wYLl5cbxEt

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Preventing and combating #moneylaundering has been on the EU's agenda for more than 30 years. The legal and regulatory framework has been strengthened steadily. But now the European Commission has taken an ambitious step towards beating #financialcrime.… https://t.co/U7Marvb2is