21 Dec, 2018 French State looking to intensify its control on foreign investment By Tanguy Bardet Aliénor Estrade Pascal Cuche Jérôme Philippe +1 more... Show less As most G20 countries, France is currently intensifying its control on foreign investment. Under French law, investments made by non-EU...
17 Dec, 2018 An early Christmas present for UK workers By Harriet Gaillard Today the UK Government published its ‘Good Work Plan’. This sets out the actions the Government intends to take in response to the four...
17 Dec, 2018 First Supreme Court decision on GDPR: Austrian Supreme Court rules on "prohibition of consent bundling" in general terms and conditions By Gernot Fritz Not even six months have passed since the GDPR became applicable and the first Supreme Court decision is already here. Wait: In many...
14 Dec, 2018 Financial Action Task Force reviews the UK’s anti-money laundering efforts: Key issues for financial institutions By Oliver Hamill The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has completed its report on the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing...
14 Dec, 2018 EU General Court holds that “pay-for-delay” patent settlements can be illegal agreements but annuls abuse of dominance finding By Joanna Goyder The General Court has partially annulled a Commission fining decision concerning patent settlements entered into by Servier and five...
14 Dec, 2018 EU state aid policy – a decade of development since the financial crisis By Merit Olthoff Alfredos Theodorakopoulos 10 years ago the world’s economy and financial markets were shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The EU faced the most serious...
13 Dec, 2018 UK Government publishes update on its anti-corruption strategy By Ali Sallaway Christina Franzese The UK Government has published its annual update on its anti-corruption strategy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the update emphasises the UK’s...
11 Dec, 2018 AML Enforcement Risk: 8 Practical Lessons For Bank Executives By Christopher Robinson Last week the FCA issued a Decision Notice against Mohammad Prodhan, the former CEO of Sonali Bank (UK) Limited, fining him £76,400 for...
10 Dec, 2018 US Government Issues Human Rights Sanctions After Jamal Khashoggi’s Killing By Justin Simeone Nabeel Yousef On November 15, 2018, the US Government issued sanctions against 17 Saudi individuals for involvement in the killing of Washington Post...
10 Dec, 2018 New EU foreign investment review rules: transaction hurdles for investors By Lukas Pomaroli Annika Nilsson Following a proposal by the European Commission in 2017 to unify the EU's approach to foreign direct investment (FDI) and introduce a...
07 Dec, 2018 Killing Hope, Not Just Deals: A Prediction of Likely Outcomes of the CFIUS Pilot Program By Charles Ramsey As Dante warned in the Inferno, abandon all hope, ye who enter here. When the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...
07 Dec, 2018 Court of Appeal clarifies meaning of “conducting litigation” By Rebecca Fenning The Court of Appeal, in WH Holding Ltd & Anor v E20 Stadium LLP, has handed down judgment clarifying the meaning of “conducting...