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Regulatory and compliance advisory

Helping you achieve compliance with complex cross-border regulations

With regulatory landscapes growing more complex and enforcement less predictable, achieving compliance has never been more challenging.

From data protection and ESG to financial regulation, AI governance and an accelerating wave of new cybersecurity legislation, the pace is relentless.

The challenge isn’t just compliance - it’s anticipation of what is next.

We guide our clients through the complexities of compliance – current and future, strategic and operational - ensuring your business doesn’t stumble into risk through ignorance or inaction.

With our multi-jurisdictional presence and sector knowledge, our regulatory and compliance services help clients move beyond meeting just the base requirements and advise on a wide range of legal issues.

Let our regulatory and compliance specialists help you navigate what’s next

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Our work highlights from around the world

  • Successfully advised multiple international chemical manufacturers and consumer product producers on the UK and EU chemical regulations (REACH, CLP, RoHS, BPR, PIC, POPs) in respect of health and safety matters.  
  • Developed regulatory and commercial strategies for plastic waste, single-use plastics, plastic packaging and recycling requirements in the UK and EU.
  • Supporting and advising businesses in all their relations with the environmental regulator, including government relations and day-to-day business management, as well as civil, administrative or criminal litigation.
  • Advising and supporting on establishment requirements in the UK for insurers and intermediaries and on the application of the UK regulatory perimeter to non-UK insurers.
  • Advising an EU insurer on the local regulatory position and restrictions on non-admitted insurance, providing advice from Kennedys offices and coordinating input from other law firms in a total of over 40 jurisdictions.
  • Advising firms on dealing with financial services regulatory investigations and notification of regulatory breaches.
  • Advising on acquisitions and sales of insurance businesses and the related regulatory requirements, due diligence and documentation whether acquiring an entity, a business, a book of policies or transferring renewal rights.
  • Supported a leading online marketplace in mapping platform obligations under the EU Digital Services Act, including notice and takedown procedures, recommender system transparency, and annual risk assessments. Developed internal policy templates and advised on supervisory authority engagement.