On day 2 of this year’s virtual City Week event, I was joined by investigators and regulators to discuss the latest developments in...
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Notice requirements and corresponding time bars are common to construction contracts. Whilst the enforcement of time bars may have harsh...
On the opening day of the 2021 City Week conference, Freshfields partners Mark Kalderon and Cyrus Pocha, and senior associate Claire...
Today marks the launch of the Greener Litigation Pledge, and I am delighted that Freshfields is one of the founding signatories. The last...
The EU has agreed on broad economic sanctions against Belarus as a response to the forced landing of a civil flight to arrest an exiled...
In a recent judgment, the Dubai Court of Cassation (the highest court in the Emirate of Dubai) ruled that incorporating the 1987 FIDIC...
In 2019, the UK's FCA commissioned an in-depth review into defined benefit (DB) pension transfer advice. Since that time, there has been...
The French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels (‘the Court’) has decided that the Belgian public authorities had failed to...
Last week, whilst El Salvador was contemplating reforms that should eventually allow Bitcoin to be used for everyday payments, a thousand...
On 21 May 2021, the Hong Kong Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) published its consultation conclusions on the...
On 12 May 2021, the French competition authority (FCA) prohibited a concentration for the second time in its history, relying on an...
In the recent case of Dana UK Axle Ltd (Dana) v Freudenberg FST GmbH (FST) the court excluded expert evidence from a trial. This is a...