Jan 30, 2024 Is It a Done Deal? Breach of Warranty Claims: How to Protect Your Position By Ali Kirby-Harris Emily Tilden-Smith Charlotte Dunn Post-closing disputes are on the rise. The post-covid M&A surge led to pressurised negotiations resulting, in some cases, in less due...
Jan 30, 2024 Inspiration from history – the future of employment By David Mendel Patrick Teague Does the CMA’s January report on UK labour markets hint that we have something to learn from the early 1800s? Before the middle of the...
Jan 24, 2024 Austria – Improving the work-life balance for parents and carers By Leonhard Prasser Markus Blatnig The Austrian legislator passed several amendments to a number of laws, in order to implement the EU Work-Life Balance Directive (which...
Jan 24, 2024 Germany’s highest court clarifies that the ECJ’s decision in Achmea does not apply to extra-EU BITs By Carsten Wendler Stuti Gadodia Gregorio Pettazzi Leane Meyer +1 more... Show less In its recently published decision, the German Federal Court of Justice allowed enforcement of the arbitral award rendered in Deutsche...
Jan 22, 2024 New Rules for Political Influencing in Germany: An update to Germany's Lobbying Register Act By Alex Schmidtke Lena Hanke Laura Knoke Just in time for the two-year anniversary of the first German Lobbying Register at Federal Level in 2022, the first reform of the German...
Jan 19, 2024 New Year, New Me(chanism for bank resolution) – HM Treasury consultation on enhancements to special resolution regime By Michael Raffan Lauren Moorin Fran Kaehr The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in spring 2023 posed new challenges for the UK resolution regime, as we commented in a blog post...
Jan 16, 2024 Preparing for the Risks Ahead: From Geopolitical Instability to Congressional Gridlock and Investigations By Beth George Andrew Dockham Sean Quinn The beginning of the year is a good time to examine and prepare for business and legal risks companies will be facing this year. The...
Jan 09, 2024 Employment, incentives and pensions: six key themes to look out for in 2024 By Amy Rentell 2023 was a busy year for updates in the employment, incentives and pensions space. And as we move into the new year, there are no signs...
Jan 09, 2024 Important Expansion of the German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act – including applicability to non-German Companies By Christoph H. Seibt Marlen Vesper-Gräske Germany’s Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (the German Supply Chain Act) is currently the strictest supply chain law globally. In force...
Jan 08, 2024 The Italian Annual Law on Competition: what’s new? By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Irene Indino +2 more... Show less The reform of Italian competition and consumer protection laws – which have already been significantly amended over the past two years –...
Jan 04, 2024 Bifurcated representative actions in shareholder claims rejected by English High Court By Sarah Parkes Emma Probyn Anoushka Nightingale Juliet Leung +1 more... Show less The English High Court has rejected the use of a bifurcated representative procedure to bring shareholder claims under section 90/90A and...
Jan 03, 2024 Mind the UK ‘advice gap’: Considering the Advice Guidance Boundary Review By Elisabeth Overland Christopher Bernard Billy Liu On 8 December 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) and the FCA published a joint policy paper (DP23/5) on the Advice Guidance Boundary Review (the...