12/12/2025 12:19:15 PM FCA consults on regulatory regime for ESG ratings providers By Cyrus Pocha Elisabeth Overland Emily Smith Joshua Ideson +1 more... Show less In late October, the UK Government published draft legislation to bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings providers into...
12/11/2025 10:42:53 AM Libya reopens for business: opportunities and risks in a changing energy market By Amanda Mapanda James Chapman Noah Rubins KC Anne-Lise Ménagé Leila Symonds +2 more... Show less Libya is re-emerging as a significant destination for international investment, particularly within the energy, renewables, and...
12/9/2025 3:06:46 PM Effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk: Rapid and legally sound crisis management By Luca Capone Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Cristina Hajek Gross +1 more... Show less Part 1 of a two-part series on effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk Earlier this year, we examined the growing...
12/8/2025 9:47:42 AM A decade of enforcement: Hong Kong's competition landscape in 2025 By Ninette Dodoo Tim Mak Ziqi Zhou A summary of the seminar jointly hosted by Freshfields and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. On 6 November 2025, Rasul Butt,...
12/4/2025 5:02:56 PM Malacalza vs. ECB - On the liability of the European Central Bank for the exercise of its prudential supervisory functions By Janina Heinz Philip Denninger Daniel Klingenbrunn For many years, the stability of the financial sector has formed a paramount public interest, being the underlying reason for...
12/3/2025 9:03:47 AM The 40th Freshfields Arbitration Lecture: Meg Kinnear Reflects on the Legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11 By Ashley Jones Oliver Marsden Gustav Brincat On 12 November 2025, Meg Kinnear, who served as ICSID Secretary-General from 2009 until 2024, delivered the 40th Freshfields Arbitration...
12/2/2025 1:53:16 PM Germany’s top court clarifies intra‑EU constraints vs extra‑EU stability By Boris Kasolowsky Carsten Wendler Leane Meyer Gonzalo Salazar Felix Richolt +2 more... Show less On 18 September 2025, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, Constitutional Court published two closely...
12/2/2025 1:20:43 PM From EU legacy to UK innovation: FCA consults on short selling changes By Chris Ranson James Smethurst Christopher Bernard The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Consultation Paper CP25/29 setting out proposed rules and guidance to implement the...
12/1/2025 10:30:30 AM Shaping Asia’s Infrastructure: Unlocking Central Asia’s solar potential - Liberalising trends in solar development in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan By Ciara Watkins Morgane Guyonnet Kim Rosenberg Robert Colvin +1 more... Show less With over one million square kilometres of steppe and desert landscape and up to three thousand hours of sunlight per year, Central Asia...
11/28/2025 3:23:58 PM Beyond the Employment Rights Bill - Government drops 'day one' unfair dismissal By Holly Insley Amy Rentell Eva Moore In a surprising move, the UK government has officially retreated from its manifesto commitment to make unfair dismissal a ‘day one’...
11/28/2025 1:50:19 PM Autumn Budget 2025: a stealthy smorgasbord? By Alison Dickie Kelly Lovegrove The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has delivered the Autumn Budget 2025. In her much-anticipated second Budget, the...
11/27/2025 1:17:28 PM Autumn Budget 2025: UK expands tax-advantaged EMI share incentive regime for growth companies By Alice Greenwell Regina Erie Guy Huffen The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 2025 contained a number of significant announcements for UK businesses. Please see here for our thoughts...