12/8/2025 9:47:42 AM A decade of enforcement: Hong Kong's competition landscape in 2025 By Ninette Dodoo Tim Mak Ziqi Zhou A summary of the seminar jointly hosted by Freshfields and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. On 6 November 2025, Rasul Butt,...
12/4/2025 5:02:56 PM Malacalza vs. ECB - On the liability of the European Central Bank for the exercise of its prudential supervisory functions By Janina Heinz Philip Denninger Daniel Klingenbrunn For many years, the stability of the financial sector has formed a paramount public interest, being the underlying reason for...
12/3/2025 9:03:47 AM The 40th Freshfields Arbitration Lecture: Meg Kinnear Reflects on the Legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11 By Ashley Jones Oliver Marsden Gustav Brincat On 12 November 2025, Meg Kinnear, who served as ICSID Secretary-General from 2009 until 2024, delivered the 40th Freshfields Arbitration...
12/2/2025 1:53:16 PM Germany’s top court clarifies intra‑EU constraints vs extra‑EU stability By Boris Kasolowsky Carsten Wendler Leane Meyer Gonzalo Salazar Felix Richolt +2 more... Show less On 18 September 2025, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, Constitutional Court published two closely...
12/2/2025 1:20:43 PM From EU legacy to UK innovation: FCA consults on short selling changes By Chris Ranson James Smethurst Christopher Bernard The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Consultation Paper CP25/29 setting out proposed rules and guidance to implement the...
12/1/2025 10:30:30 AM Shaping Asia’s Infrastructure: Unlocking Central Asia’s solar potential - Liberalising trends in solar development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan By Ciara Watkins Morgane Guyonnet Kim Rosenberg Robert Colvin +1 more... Show less With over one million square kilometres of steppe and desert landscape and up to three thousand hours of sunlight per year, Central Asia...
11/28/2025 3:23:58 PM Beyond the Employment Rights Bill - Government drops 'day one' unfair dismissal By Holly Insley Amy Rentell Eva Moore In a surprising move, the UK government has officially retreated from its manifesto commitment to make unfair dismissal a ‘day one’...
11/28/2025 1:50:19 PM Autumn Budget 2025: a stealthy smorgasbord? By Alison Dickie Kelly Lovegrove The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has delivered the Autumn Budget 2025. In her much-anticipated second Budget, the...
11/27/2025 1:17:28 PM Autumn Budget 2025: UK expands tax-advantaged EMI share incentive regime for growth companies By Alice Greenwell Regina Erie Guy Huffen The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 2025 contained a number of significant announcements for UK businesses. Please see here for our thoughts...
11/27/2025 11:57:12 AM Non-compete clauses in employment contracts - is change on the horizon for UK employers? By David Mendel Amy Rentell Amelia Lamp Hot on the heels of previous signals of potential change (see here and here), the UK government quietly published a working paper...
11/26/2025 5:21:52 PM Autumn Budget 2025 - What are the key points from an employment, incentives and pensions perspective? By Dawn Heath Alice Greenwell Amy Rentell Jane Wolstenholme +1 more... Show less The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, today unveiled the Autumn Budget against a backdrop of sustained economic pressures and...
11/25/2025 10:56:11 AM UK Gov launches consultation on an offsets regime for the defence sector: time to have your say. By Kate Gough Alex Potter Robert Colvin Conor Leavy Nathan Castellano +2 more... Show less On 23 October 2025, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) launched an open consultation seeking views from the market on a potential new...