29 Jan, 2021 Home or away? EU Court undermines reliability of choice-of-jurisdiction clauses By Moritz Becker Hendric Labonté Jurisdiction is an essential factor in determining the cost, duration and ultimate success of a lawsuit. Litigating in a foreign language...
29 Jan, 2021 Cartel liability: financial investors beware By Dominic Divivier Thomas Janssens Tobias Klose Liability of Goldman Sachs for power cables cartel On 27 January, the EU Court of Justice confirmed a €37m European Commission fine on...
29 Jan, 2021 EU Commission publishes fifth amendment to its Temporary Framework for state aid in relation to the COVID-19 crisis By Andreas von Bonin Susanna Brintrup Jonas Levermann On 28 January 2021 the EU Commission published the fifth amendment to its 19 March 2020 Temporary Framework on state aid in reaction to...
28 Jan, 2021 UK banking and financial services: key litigation trends of 2020 By Emma Probyn A number of decisions from the English courts in 2020 illustrate the litigation trends that are likely to have implications for the...
28 Jan, 2021 The ‘unambiguous impropriety’ exception to without prejudice privilege in English law: near-impossible? By Anthea Bowater Daniel Gold The English Court of Appeal has reaffirmed the extremely narrow scope of the ‘unambiguous impropriety’ exception to without prejudice...
27 Jan, 2021 The EU Representative Actions Directive: the funding and financial aspects By Sabine Prossinger Anne-Laure Vincent Jeroen Van Hezewijk The first blog post in this series exploring the choices open to EU member states implementing the Representative Actions Directive ('the...
27 Jan, 2021 UK FCA enforcement in 2020 and looking ahead By Sharon Grennan Thomas Clark Whilst Covid may have stopped many things in 2020, it did not stop FCA Enforcement from issuing a number of substantial financial...
26 Jan, 2021 AML Update: Key Takeaways from FinCEN’s Recent Capital One Enforcement Action By Olivia Radin Jane Peng Alessandra Scalise On January 15, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that Capital One, National Association (CONA) agreed to...
26 Jan, 2021 European Commission evaluates first four years of Antitrust Damages Directive By Max Immerzeel Onno Brouwer On 14 December 2020, the European Commission published an evaluation of the implementation of the Antitrust Damages Directive (the...
26 Jan, 2021 Trading on a hack By Kimberly Zelnick Menachem Kaplan Peter Jaffe For several years, we’ve had data showing the typical behavior of a data breach victim’s stock when the company discloses an incident:...
25 Jan, 2021 Pensions Briefing – what to expect in 2021 By Dawn Heath Charles Magoffin Andrew Murphy Sarah Prickett +1 more... Show less This blog post looks ahead at what we expect to be key UK developments in the pensions space in 2021. Highlights include: the long...
21 Jan, 2021 Does the Supreme Court’s Halliburton judgment make a splash in the pool of arbitrators for global project arbitrations? By Amani Khalifa Matt Evans On 27 November 2020, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd (formerly known as...