Commercial Law 2026 Update: Key Developments in Contracts, Regulation & Risk

Introduction

Presented by expert speaker Iain Sim, this webinar will provide corporate and commercial lawyers (and other professionals) with a comprehensive overview of recent Q1 and Q2 developments in the commercial arena.

The webinar will enhance your commercial awareness of the UK ecosystem, providing actionable, practice-focused guidance to help you protect your commercial clients from escalating regulatory exposures and structural legal shifts.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Key commercial cases from Q1 and Q2
  • Good faith in commercial performance
  • Director duties vs. minority protection
  • Procedural and jurisdictional realities
• Commercial contracts update
  • Managing contractual equilibrium
  • Standardisation vs. non-standard risk
  • Consumer-facing contract shifts
• New legislation coming on-stream
  • Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) enforcement
  • Data (Use and Access) reform
  • Corporate threshold adjustments
• Developments in ESG
  • The transition to UK SRS
  • Cross-border supply chain impacts
  • Anti-greenwashing clauses
• AI and data
  • Allocating risk for non-deliberate AI harm
  • Drafting AI intellectual property and data guardrails
  • Automated output liability
• Competition update
  • The new face of regulatory fines
  • Subscription and ‘drip pricing’ crackdowns
  • Merger control and supply chain integration
• Upcoming developments
  • Horizon scanning for the rest of the year
  • The evolving legal curriculum