Many investment treaty arbitrations in Latin America relate to investments in the natural resources sector. This is unsurprising. Latin...
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On 17 March 2022, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published its 2021 annual report on the regulation of...
Our recent note on the UK-Australia agreement foreshadowed the conclusion of a UK-New Zealand agreement: this has now been signed.It is...
The UK government has now imposed a 35% tariff uplift on goods imported from Russia and Belarus. The list of affected goods is here and...
The pharmaceutical sector, like China’s digital markets (see our previous briefing), is attracting attention from China’s State...
On 23 March 2022, in response to the conflict in Ukraine, the European Commission (the Commission) adopted a Temporary Crisis Framework...
On 10 March 2022, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued a questionnaire in the context of its ongoing compliance review...
Under the current procurement rules, parties can be excluded from bidding for public contracts on the basis of their past conduct. For...
As the UK government announces that it has donated over two million medical items to Ukraine, MedTech Europe (the European trade...
Unlike other jurisdictions in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s legal system is based almost exclusively on the teachings of Islam. Article...
In a recent meeting of the German Bundestag’s Financial Committee, Christof Schulte, announced that the Financial Intelligence Unit...
The many sanctions against Russian businesses imposed by governments across the globe have, by design, prevented numerous companies from...