The long-awaited episode six details stories concerning an EU probe into Nike's tax arrangements, M&A Activity in the UK, New HSF tech, Hitachi's largest ever acquisition, Battersea Power Station, the Royal Bank of Scotland, GlaxoSmithKline & Pfizer, Ford and Jaguar Land Rover job cuts and a disclosure pilot program and its implications for legal tech.

Links for the stories

EU Nike tax probe

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/10/eu-investigates-nikes-tax-status-in-the-netherlands

M&A Activity Ranking

https://www.law.com/legal-week/2019/01/08/us-firms-plummet-down-uk-ma-deal-rankings/

HSF Decision Tree

https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/news/herbert-smith-freehills-introduces-software-enabled-decision-analysis-service-to-help-clients

Hitachi Acquisition

https://www.law.com/international/2018/12/17/baker-mckenzie-freshfields-advise-on-hitachis-6b-acquisition-of-abbs-power-grid-unit/?slreturn=20190010110053

Battersea Power Station

https://www.thelawyer.com/city-trio-lead-on-1-6bn-battersea-power-station-takeover/ 

RBS German Banking License

https://www.ft.com/content/7e335200-0390-11e9-99df-6183d3002ee1

GlaxoSmithKline Joint Venture

https://www.ft.com/content/3681be02-035d-11e9-9d01-cd4d49afbbe3 

https://www.thelawyer.com/slaughters-and-kirkland-lead-as-gsk-strikes-9-8bn-joint-venture-with-pfizer/ 

Ford Job Cuts

https://www.ft.com/content/1f85c9ee-14a8-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e

Jaguar Land Rover Job Cuts

https://www.ft.com/content/03c886c8-14d6-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46822706

Honda Non-Production Days

https://news.sky.com/story/honda-to-stop-production-for-six-days-after-brexit-11603875

Disclosure Pilot Program

https://www.ft.com/content/ad042a78-052f-11e9-9d01-cd4d49afbbe3 

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/practice-direction-51u-disclosure-pilot-for-the-business-and-property-courts

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