1/21/2025 9:26:03 PM Preparing for Political Risk in 2025: Contempt, Coordination, and Congressional Investigations in 2025 By Andrew Dockham Austin Evers Beth George Jessica Heller Loren Terry +2 more... Show less The second Trump administration begins with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and a conservative Supreme Court majority....
1/21/2025 12:33:28 PM Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2025 By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop David Sewell Emma Probyn Rikki Haria Daphne van der Houwen Christine Simpson Eva Schneider Daniel Klingenbrunn Nariné Atamian Tristan Lockwood Noah Schmidt +9 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, we have crowdsourced predictions for the year ahead from the Freshfields global fintech team....
1/21/2025 12:08:01 PM The first significant overhaul of the UK clinical trials regime in two decades begins to take shape By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Kyu-Won Kim Honor May +1 more... Show less In brief: On 12 December 2024, draft legislation to amend the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 was laid before...
1/20/2025 4:39:06 PM The French Competition Authority launches a public consultation to collect feedback on potential changes to the French merger control regime By Jérôme Philippe Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Elaine Pajeot The French Competition Authority (FCA) has just launched a public consultation on potential changes to the French merger control regime,...
1/20/2025 9:50:38 AM The KSA Civil Transactions Law Applied: Exceptions to Retrospective Effect By Amani Khalifa Kamel Diab The Civil Transactions Law (the CTL) enacted by Royal Decree No M/191 (the Royal Decree) has been in full effect for over a year, seeding...
1/16/2025 4:18:34 PM Insurance and reinsurance: New year, new priorities By Priti Lancaster George Swan Bradley Tapper Last week the PRA published a Dear CEO letter outlining its 2025 supervisory priorities for the UK insurance sector. The PRA focuses its...
1/16/2025 3:13:24 PM UK shareholder litigation: 5 key themes from 2024 and what they mean for 2025 By Emma Probyn Ali Kirby-Harris Flavia Williams Daniaal Azam +1 more... Show less 2024 was an eventful year for UK shareholder litigation, and 2025 looks set to bring about a number of further significant developments....
1/15/2025 9:51:49 PM Updates to Colorado Privacy Act Rules for Biometric Data, Data of Minors, and Procedures for Opinion Letters and Interpretive Guidance By Christine Lyon Christine Chong Jackson Myers The Colorado Attorney General’s Office recently approved amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act Rules (Rules) to clarify upcoming changes...
1/15/2025 2:05:19 PM EU Refines Measures to Protect European Parties from Legal Actions in Russia By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Leane Meyer Gonzalo Salazar Valerio Letizia +2 more... Show less On 16 December 2024, the EU adopted the 15th package of sanctions against Russia. In addition to imposing the first comprehensive...
1/14/2025 11:09:52 AM The year ahead in financial services: 10 trends to watch in 2025 By Sharon Grennan Christopher Bernard 2024 was a momentous year for the financial services industry. Financial institutions had to deal with geopolitical risks arising from...
1/13/2025 1:12:05 PM “Regulating for growth” – the UK’s vision for financial services in 2025 and beyond By Michael Raffan Emily Smith Christopher Bernard Ellis Brady +1 more... Show less The new Labour government has placed financial services at the centre of its plans to grow the UK economy, and UK regulators have an...
1/2/2025 4:27:16 PM CJEU finds Spanish withholding tax rules applicable to non-resident loss-making investors are contrary to EU right to free movement of capital By Maria Mera Álvaro Fernández Carmen Delgado The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently issued a judgment (Case C-601/23) on the entitlement of a non-resident...