New Irish companies legislation signed into law By John Darmody, Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan Further to our recent update regarding proposed changes to the Companies Act 2014, the Companies…
General scheme of new Irish company law bill to address certain COVID-19 related issues By John Darmody, Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan Introduction The General Scheme of the Companies and Industrial and Provident Societies…
ODCE statement on COVID-19 related insolvency and restriction orders By John Darmody, Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan Introduction The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (“ODCE”) has released a…
COVID-19: Further extension for filing annual returns of Irish companies and other entities By John Darmody, Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan The Companies Registration Office (“CRO”) previously announced that all annual returns due to be…
The impact of COVID-19 on Korean investment into UK real estate By Ona Proctor The UK real estate investment market has slowed in recent weeks due to Covid 19, but our…
COVID-19 – Impact on Professional Liability Claims By Patrick Hill We are still in the early days of the COVID-19 induced global health and economic crisis with, by…
COVID-19: Extension for filing annual returns of Irish companies By John Darmody, Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan Filing extension As a consequence of the Government of Ireland’s COVID-19 public health…
COVID-19: Passing board resolutions during a pandemic (Ireland) By Sharon McCaffrey, Sarah Meehan, John Darmody Introduction A major impact of the measures introduced by the Irish government to control the…
COVID-19: Cyber security and resilience By Patrick Hill, Rhiannon Webster In one of the most challenging weeks for businesses across the UK, the Information Commissioner’s…
Ready or Not – deadline to file beneficial ownership details on 22 November 2019 By Sarah Meehan, Sharon McCaffrey, John Darmody The deadline is fast approaching for entities to file the required beneficial ownership details…
Updates to the ICP contract package By Charlotte Burnett, Chris Waite, In August 2019, NHS England published updated versions of the ICP contract and support documents…
50 predictions: Professional Liability By Patrick Hill Turbulent times ahead for property professionals The status quo for those operating in the…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter – July 2018 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, The last few weeks have seen data protection laws radically overhauled in the UK and across Europe…
ThreatInformer Cyber Threat Advisory – July 2018 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill This month, Google Chrome users visiting websites on HTTP (i.e…
Compensation claims under the GDPR - an overview of the brewing storm By Patrick Hill Breach response under the GDPR As readers of this newsletter will probably be aware, the much…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - March 2018 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill GDPR – Are you ready? It's the final countdown! With less than 60 days to go until the EU General…
Cyber Threat Advisory By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill Crypto-Currency Mining Attacks NCC Group’s Network Threat Monitoring and Incident Response teams…
ThreatInformer Cyber Threat Advisory – March 2018 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill In the wake of the catastrophic Spectre and Meltdown bugs published in January, the usual suspects…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - December 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill As you may know, DAC Beachcroft recently launched Personal Data: the new oil and its toxic legacy…
ThreatInformer - December 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill Importance of Breach Disclosure According to Bloomberg, Uber suffered a major data breach in…
New Cyber Protocol Rules in New York By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill The New York Department of Financial Services ("NYDFS"), which is responsible for the regulation of…
Cyber Threat Advisory Summary - December 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill NCC Group malware researchers recently published a blog post outlining the technical details of a…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - October 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill Welcome to the latest edition of our Cyber Insurance newsletter…
Cyber Threat Advisory Summary - Data Destroying Malware Post WannaCry & NotPetya By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill After the devastating effects of the WannaCry and NotPetya data destroying malware we have seen a…
Cyber Threat Advisory Summary - ThreatInformer By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill Current technical risks provided by ThreatInformer, include Drupal - Access Bypass and Adobe…
Facebook ordered to pay over €1m in fines for data violations By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill The Spanish Data Protection Agency (" SDPA ") has fined Facebook for violating Spanish Data…
50 predictions: Professional Liability By Patrick Hill “It is hoped that this revolutionary tool [the pensions dashboard] will bring greater…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - July 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill We are delighted to share Closing the Gap: Insuring your business against cyber threats with you…
D&O and FI Newsletter - Spring 2017 By Patrick Hill, William Naylor, Marcus Campbell, Francesca Muscutt, Graham Ludlam, Declan Finn, Leanne Rogers, Sarah Crowther DAC Beachcroft's D&O and FI newsletter features topical issues for our global clients and…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - May 2017 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill Welcome to the latest edition of our Cyber Insurance newsletter…
50 Predictions: Professional Liability By Patrick Hill "Brokers must be equipped to advise their clients on suitable cover for their cyber and other…
Accountancy Newsletter December 2015 By Richard Highley, William Naylor, Giles Hindle, Julian Miller, Pippa Ellis, Patrick Hill, Declan Finn, Ross Risby, Suzanne Wharton DAC Beachcroft's Accountancy newsletter features topical news and insights for our clients and…
Claims against trustees in bankruptcies and the trustees' duty to the bankrupt By Patrick Hill, Declan Finn The recent case of Oraki v Bramston and Defty [2015] EWHC 2046 (Ch) concerned former bankrupts'…
Cyber insurance in the healthcare sector By Patrick Hill The development of the London cyber insurance market, through access to standalone and umbrella…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - June 2015 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill Whilst we are still reeling from the ground-breaking Vidal-Hall decision earlier this year, the ICO…
DAC Beachcroft Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - January 2015 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill In a sneak-peak of the issues at the forefront of US President Barack Obama's agenda for 2015, he…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - December 2014 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill 2014 has been another year of high profile attacks on global corporations, with cyber-crime showing…
Cyber attacks: Directors' Liability By Patrick Hill, Graham Ludlam The risk of a cyber attack is material for the majority of businesses in the financial services…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - October 2014 By Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt Cyber security is about risk reduction, not risk prevention…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - August 2014 By Hans Allnutt, Patrick Hill, Rhiannon Webster Cyber-attacks remain a regular feature of news headlines…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter - July 2014 By Hans Allnutt, Rhiannon Webster, Patrick Hill Data protection and privacy is only one element of cyber risk and there have been a number of…
Cyber Insurance, Privacy and Data Security Newsletter – June 2014 By Patrick Hill, Hans Allnutt As the implementation of the European Data Protection Regulation drops further behind schedule, one…
