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Elizabeth Bradley, Global Practice Group Leader for our Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client practice, together with Anne Powell, Knowledge Counsel, provided insight on the ‘mansion tax’ in an article on 28 November 2025 ‘Autumn 2025 Budget: Views from practice: Tax’ on Thompson Reuters Practical Law which analysed the impact on the real estate sector.

Elizabeth Bradley, Global Practice Group Leader for our Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client practice, was quoted in an article in The Financial Times ‘Explainer: how the ‘mansion tax’ will work’ on 26 November 2025 which analysed the impact of the Autumn 2025 budget on the real estate sector.

Elizabeth Bradley, Global Practice Group Leader for our Tax, Employee Benefits and Private Client practice authored an article ‘Property taxes: it could have been worse’ in the Tax Journal on 27 November 2025 which analysed the impact of the Autumn 2025 budget on the real estate sector.

On 3 December 2025, the PRA published Policy Statement 25/25 (PS25/25), finalising proposals from CP10/25 and introducing Supervisory Statement 4/25 (SS4/25). This replaces SS3/19 and sets out updated expectations on how banks and insurers should manage climate-related financial risks.

Following consultation earlier this year, the Takeover Panel has published a response statement adopting amendments to the Takeover Code concerning dual class share structures (DCSS), IPOs, and share buybacks. The amendments take effect on 4 February 2026 and will apply to all companies and transactions, including those straddling the implementation date, except where to do so would give the amendments retroactive effect.

In our previous article, we explored how AI is reshaping contractual negotiations with athletes, bringing advanced data analytics and predictive modelling into a process once driven largely by statistics and instinct. AI is now having an equally profound impact on the commercial side of sport, transforming how sponsorship deals are valued, structured and activated, and redefining how fans can connect with their favourite teams, athletes and brands. This article explores how AI is allowing rights holders and sponsors to deploy innovative solutions to engage with their audiences, and how innovation in this space also raises new commercial and legal questions around data privacy, image rights and the accuracy of AI-generated insights.