8/22/2025 9:54:07 AM Is Syria Open for Business? By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Jonathan Kelly Lukas Pomaroli Andrew Bulovsky Keian Razipour +3 more... Show less US, EU, and UK Sanctions Relief Paves the Way for New Investment Opportunities In the months after the fall of the Assad government in...
8/22/2025 8:48:15 AM Road to CRD 6 – Good things come to those who wait – or do they? The German implementation of Article 21c By Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos Falko Glasow The long awaited and highly anticipated German draft act for the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/1619 (CRD 6) has finally been...
8/20/2025 2:25:54 PM Consultation on revised guidelines on internal governance – impact on third-country branches By Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos Falko Glasow On 7 August 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its consultation on revised Guidelines on internal governance under...
8/19/2025 12:34:56 PM Expanding the Legal Toolkit: The EU’s New Tools Against Sanctioned Russian Investors By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Leane Meyer Valerio Letizia Gonzalo Salazar +3 more... Show less On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its 18th sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Alongside a...
8/18/2025 5:22:16 PM Recent Developments Provide First Look at FCPA Enforcement Priorities Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Timothy Howard Allison Kowalski After a temporary “pause” in enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and issuance of revised Guidelines for...
8/18/2025 8:43:28 AM Another major hurdle cleared: DC District Court enforces intra-EU ICSID Awards in the US By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Paige von Mehren Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less As discussed in our previous update, in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) removed...
8/14/2025 4:53:31 PM Freshfields webinar—The UK government’s new financial services strategy: a catalyst for growth? By Martin McElwee Craig Dewar Gareth Davies Lloyd Rees Christopher Bernard +2 more... Show less On the evening of Tuesday 15 July 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered her second Mansion House speech, in...
8/14/2025 9:10:04 AM From Overreach to Boundaries – How Courts Are Refocusing the Transaction Value Threshold in German Merger Control By Peter Niggemann Dominic Divivier Vera Barthel-Westphal Frank Felgentraeger +1 more... Show less When Germany added a transaction value threshold in 2017 to its merger control regime, the goal was clear: to capture a small number of...
8/13/2025 3:12:03 PM False Claims Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Peter Linken Emmeline Chen Over halfway through the first year of President Trump’s second term, the Administration has employed a range of legal and regulatory...
8/8/2025 8:52:44 AM Freshfields Hosts Africa Arbitration Academy for Sixth Consecutive Year By Stephanie Mbonu Joshua Kelly Gregorio Pettazzi Thembela Ndwandwe Veronika Timofeeva Robert Colvin Camille Strosser +4 more... Show less On June 17 2025, Freshfields’ London office proudly hosted the 2025 cohort of the Africa Arbitration Academy (AAA), welcoming 27 mid to...
8/7/2025 4:05:15 PM UK Privy Council rules that companies are entitled to assert privilege against their own shareholders By Emma Probyn Kate Cooper Annie Whiteside Alice Pedder Flavia Williams Amalia Albu +3 more... Show less In a significant judgment handed down on 24 July 2025, the UK Privy Council in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund...
8/5/2025 8:29:39 AM UK product liability reform – new redress rules for AI systems? By Andrew Austin Harriet Hanks Rachel Duffy Alexandra Yang +1 more... Show less Changes on the horizon: AI to be in scope and hints of a more pro-consumer balance The UK Law Commission has announced a new project to...