Our annual Insights publication is designed to help you prepare for the coming year. Collaborating across offices and practices, we share our observations and experience from the past 12 months, highlight critical issues you may face in 2023 and suggest ways to navigate what lies ahead.

In the first episode of our new podcast, host Robert Chaplin and guest Azad Ali, from Skadden’s UK and EU financial services practice, discuss the UK government’s recently announced post-Brexit Solvency II reforms. Known as Solvency UK, the reformed regime is expected to boost innovation, assist the government’s drive for investment and release a considerable amount of regulatory capital from UK carriers’ balance sheets.

Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been swift and coordinated. The U.S., U.K. and EU, among other allied nations, have imposed a series of sanctions and export controls on key elements of the Russian economy.