31 Jan, 2022 UK MHRA consults on overhaul of clinical trials legislation By Harriet Hanks Celine Leong On 17 January 2022, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) launched a public consultation on “far-reaching”...
28 Jan, 2022 Global Enforcement Outlook: Critical data management issues in investigations By Philipp Roos Zara Merali Geoff Nicholas Kimberly Zelnick Norbert Nolte +2 more... Show less As internal, regulatory and criminal investigations become increasingly global, cross-border data protection and privacy issues are more...
27 Jan, 2022 UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement – the first from scratch By Anthony Parry On 16 December the UK and Australia signed a free trade agreement (FTA), the first FTA to have been negotiated by the UK with another...
27 Jan, 2022 Global Enforcement Outlook: China’s new data transfer laws add complexity to China-related investigations By Xin Liu John Choong Pauline Peng Multinational companies facing investigations and enforcement proceedings in relation to their China-based operations may find themselves...
27 Jan, 2022 UK banking and financial services litigation: 2021 in review By Emma Probyn A number of decisions from the English courts in 2021 illustrate the litigation trends that are likely to have implications for the...
26 Jan, 2022 The implementation of the ECN+ Directive in Italy: new investigation and enforcement powers in the Antitrust authority’s armoury By Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Mila Filomena Crispino Maria Spanò +2 more... Show less On 14 December 2021, Legislative Decree No. 185/2021 (the Decree), implementing EU Directive no. 2019/1 (ECN Plus) entered into force,...
26 Jan, 2022 Stay of execution? Mylan can challenge Neurim’s divisional backup in the UK, but only just By Sarah Naisby Meade J has held that Mylan can seek to invalidate Neurim’s divisional patent in infringement proceedings brought against it in the UK,...
25 Jan, 2022 Global Enforcement Outlook: Europe’s evolving corporate criminal liability laws By Emmanuelle Brunelle Giuseppe Curtò Dimitri Lecat Simone Kämpfer Federico Mercuri Ben Morgan +3 more... Show less Following the outlook on the US we now focus on developments in Europe, where legislators and authorities are increasingly active in the...
25 Jan, 2022 UK financial services enforcement – Themes and a landmark decision By Sharon Grennan The FCA’s first criminal prosecution of a bank, which was also its first prosecution for breaches of the UK’s Money Laundering...
24 Jan, 2022 Freshfields Team Authors Anti-Corruption Practice Guide By Eric Bruce Justin Simeone Andrew Bulovsky Amid active anti-corruption efforts by US and foreign authorities in recent years, the Biden administration emphasized during 2021 that...
24 Jan, 2022 Life sciences – what to expect in 2022 By Harriet Hanks Jennifer Bethlehem Adam Golden Laura Whiting Jenny Leahy May Smith +3 more... Show less Innovation and transformation are the watchwords for life sciences in 2022. Digitization and personalization trends are set to continue...
21 Jan, 2022 Sustainability provisions in construction contracts: a way to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint? By Vanessa Medina Jon Gilbert With the recent conclusion of COP26, the challenges posed by climate change are at the forefront of the agendas of governments and...