Brexit is widely seen as the biggest potential risk facing firms this year, because it throws up uncertainty and contingency planning is hard when the range of potential outcomes (in the event of a vote to leave the EU) is so wide.

Peter Bevan, Partner, and Lucy Fergusson, Partner, from Linklaters will look at the current expected timetable for a Brexit referendum, the timetable and mechanism for an EU exit, some of the possible options for what a post-EU arrangement might look like, the high level impacts on the UK and a detailed look at some of the financial regulatory aspects of our relationship with the EU and how they could be unpicked or replicated.