4/25/2025 11:09:25 AM Tariff Crisis: Navigating Contractual Challenges and Remedies for Businesses operating in Germany By Roman Mallmann Moritz Becker Sarah Hillebrand Hendric Labonté Jakob Zumbé +2 more... Show less The recent escalation of US tariffs on imports from around the world, and tariff retaliation from (so far) China and Canada, and...
4/25/2025 9:59:34 AM Re-examining the UK’s national security & investment regime By Martin McElwee Cara Carr Lloyd Rees Freshfields sponsors TheCityUK International Conference and co-writes report on “Foreign direct investment and national security regimes:...
4/24/2025 3:34:37 PM German Election #7: What can we expect in employment law? By Ulrich Sittard The coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD for the next federal government, entitled ‘Responsibility for Germany,’ has been...
4/24/2025 10:36:39 AM SFO’s long-awaited guidance on corporate cooperation By Ali Sallaway Ben Morgan Matthew Bruce Emily Knight Caroline Doherty de Novoa Laura Feldman +3 more... Show less The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today published updated Guidance (the Guidance) on corporate cooperation. It assesses when and how...
4/22/2025 12:54:30 PM Reforming fund regulation in the UK: HM Treasury and FCA proposals for regulating alternative investment fund managers By Emma Rachmaninov Christopher Chan Christopher Bernard Daniel Tichbi +1 more... Show less The future for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) in the UK became a little bit clearer on 7 April 2025 when HM Treasury...
4/17/2025 9:49:50 AM U.S. DOJ Investigations: Thoughts about the Scope of Applicability of the “Law” By Ken Sakurabayashi I. Introduction – “Why is an American attorney here?” “Why is an American attorney here?” This is a common refrain heard by many...
4/11/2025 7:47:23 AM German Election #6: The coalition agreement of the new German government - what’s in it for financial services? By Jan Struckmann Theresa Kreft Daniel Klingenbrunn Alicia Hildner Hans-Ulrich Klöppel Alexander Glos +3 more... Show less On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
4/9/2025 8:51:04 PM Trump’s tariffs: WTO consultations requested by China, Canada and the European Union By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr Introduction In this briefing, we analyse how China, Canada, and the EU have responded to the tariffs which President Donald Trump has...
4/8/2025 5:09:00 PM The EU Plans to Respond to the Trump Tariffs: What You Need to Know By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr The Trump tariffs In our briefing of 27 February, we examined the EU’s plans to respond to Trump’s tariffs. Since then, there have been a...
4/8/2025 10:40:43 AM Freshfields Asia-Pacific International Arbitration Update: SIAC, HKIAC, and Singapore arbitration case law By Nicholas Lingard Samantha Tan Rohit Bhat Dennis Xin Desmond Chong +2 more... Show less SIAC-related updates (1) SIAC launches new rules The new SIAC Rules 2025 took effect on 1 January 2025, introducing urgent emergency...
4/7/2025 3:40:00 PM Consumer protection provisions of the UK DMCCA and the CMA’s new enforcement powers are now in force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Rachel Duffy Honor May Joshua Hare +3 more... Show less The majority of the consumer protection provisions of the landmark Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the DMCCA) went live...
4/4/2025 1:53:00 PM A guide to the proposed changes to judicial reviews of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects By Cat Greenwood-Smith Katie Kirschbaum Jack Bailey Myah Popat +1 more... Show less In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on the UK Government to implement changes that will streamline legal challenges of...