1/30/2026 3:46:29 PM Back on the Agenda: Germany’s Renewed Push to Modernise its Arbitration Law By Kristina Weiler Patrick Schroeder Carsten Wendler Katharina Shingler Sonja Vidal Stefanie Leclerc Bialluch +3 more... Show less On 27 January 2026, the German Federal Ministry of Justice published a draft bill to modernise the German arbitration law (the 2026...
1/28/2026 2:38:18 PM Calmer waters? The UK Government reveals its plan to reform the water sector By James Aitken Susannah Prichard Nick English Kritika Rampal +1 more... Show less On 20 January 2026, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published the UK Government’s long-anticipated White...
1/27/2026 12:25:24 PM Pay transparency revolution: Applicants’ rights under the EU Pay Transparency Directive - A new era of pay fairness By Karin Buzanich-Sommeregger Sarah Rohmann Laura Llangozi Amy Rentell +1 more... Show less The EU Pay Transparency Directive (PTD) marks a significant step towards greater fairness and openness in the labour market. Although the...
1/26/2026 2:17:49 PM Freshfields Fintech: Our Predictions for 2026 By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Julia Robilliard-Smith Laura Hibbert +1 more... Show less We have once again canvassed opinions from our Freshfields global fintech team for the year ahead, as we did in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024...
1/26/2026 8:17:10 AM Infrastructure Future Act in Germany By Carsten Bork Michael Ramb Andreas Ruthemeyer Stefan Schröder Niko Schultz-Süchting Kristina Weiler Mirko Masek Nicolas Sölter Alex Schmidtke +6 more... Show less Speeding up infrastructure? The practical implications of Germany’s new Infrastructure Future Act With the Infrastructure Future Act...
1/23/2026 1:36:48 PM System re-boot: High Court turns up the voltage for UK energy appeals By James Aitken Susannah Prichard Kritika Rampal Leonie Sage +1 more... Show less On 22 January 2026, the English High Court delivered an important judgment for companies and investors in UK regulated infrastructure. ...
1/21/2026 1:36:59 PM Tokenisation at Scale: What 2026 Will Deliver By Claire Harrop Joana Fragata Julia Robilliard-Smith Daniel Klingenbrunn +1 more... Show less Tokenisation grew to become a hot topic during 2025 and we don’t see signs of interest in tokenising assets slowing down. In this post,...
1/21/2026 9:40:49 AM Pay transparency revolution: Driving equal pay and group workforce litigation By Elodie Favre-Thellmann Leonhard Prasser Laura Llangozi Amy Rentell Sarah Rohmann +2 more... Show less The EU Pay Transparency Directive (PTD) is not just another compliance exercise. It represents a fundamental shift in how employers...
1/20/2026 8:19:18 PM UK Government Heralds Major Changes to UK Merger Control Regime By James Aitken Colin Raftery On 20 January 2026, the UK government announced a range of proposed reforms to the UK merger control regime. The proposals are, once...
1/20/2026 5:16:05 PM Greenland tariff threats – assessing the EU and UK responses and considering the US legal basis By Claire Harrop Martin McElwee Nabeel Yousef Lorand Bartels Ioana-Virginia Motoc +2 more... Show less On 17 January 2026, the President of the United States publicly threatened to impose tariffs (up to 10 percent on February 1, rising to...
1/19/2026 1:42:57 PM Investing in Africa: Key developments shaping the continent’s investment landscape By Alexandra van der Meulen Yosr Bouassida Set to become the world’s second-fastest-growing region, Africa is entering a new economic cycle that is drawing a significant degree of...
1/19/2026 11:58:25 AM Shaping Asia’s Infrastructure: “Pay when paid” clauses across Asia By Dennis Xin Elizabeth Forster Kim Rosenberg Asia is entering a new era of infrastructure and energy transformation. The Asia-Pacific infrastructure market, valued at an estimated...