4/13/2026 5:54:03 PM The Italian Antitrust Authority issues its first ever fine for online retail price maintenance and clarifies the contours of illegal online marketplace bans By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Luca Giacomello +2 more... Show less On 17 March 2026, the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) imposed a record fine of over €25 million on Morellato S.p.A. (Morellato), a...
4/13/2026 1:40:36 PM Investing in Africa: How Algeria’s mining reform is reshaping the investment landscape By Christophe Seraglini Alexandra van der Meulen Veronika Timofeeva Yosr Bouassida Pegah Kelasi +2 more... Show less In brief Algeria has embarked on one of its most comprehensive economic and legal reforms in decades. This process began with a...
4/7/2026 5:55:49 PM When is business data personal? German Federal Court clarifies scope of GDPR access rights By Martin Mekat Christoph Werkmeister Amerouche Kessi Philipp Semmelmayer +1 more... Show less In recent years, companies have faced a rising tide of data subject access requests (DSARs) under Article 15 of the GDPR, often pushing...
4/3/2026 9:36:30 AM More proportionality for smaller institutions and de-scoping of significant institutions – BaFin’s 9th revision of the MaRisk By Jan Struckmann Holger Hartenfels Janina Heinz The German financial services supervisory authority BaFin is consulting the 9th revision of its Minimum Requirements for Risk Management...
4/2/2026 2:13:37 PM DMCCA Subscription Reforms Now Set for Spring 2027 By Andrew Austin Rikki Haria Kate Collister Rachel Duffy +1 more... Show less The UK Government has today published the long-awaited outcome of its consultation on the subscription-related provisions of the Digital...
4/2/2026 7:24:30 AM An Uncertain Path Forward: The ePrivacy Derogation and Child Safety Detection By Theresa Ehlen Daniel Travers Florentine Schulte-Rudzio Gina Claus +1 more... Show less On 3 April 2026, the temporary derogation to the ePrivacy Directive — the legal basis that has for years allowed technology companies to...
4/1/2026 5:20:20 PM Update: Freshfields’ response to the UK Government’s proposals to overhaul the competition regime By James Aitken Colin Raftery On 20 January 2026, the UK Government announced a range of proposed reforms to the UK competition regime. In our previous blog, we...
4/1/2026 8:22:12 AM Shaping Asia’s Infrastructure: Navigating Liquidated Damages Across Asia - How Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Japan Diverge By George Chatham Alex Kieu Sue Ng Jacky Fung Yuu Itoh Ann Matthias +3 more... Show less Introduction A liquidated damages (LD) clause drafted may be perfectly enforceable in Hong Kong for a construction project — but...