4/11/2025 7:47:23 AM German Election #6: The coalition agreement of the new German government - what’s in it for financial services? By Jan Struckmann Theresa Kreft Daniel Klingenbrunn Alicia Hildner Hans-Ulrich Klöppel Alexander Glos +3 more... Show less On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
4/9/2025 8:51:04 PM Trump’s tariffs: WTO consultations requested by China, Canada and the European Union By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr Introduction In this briefing, we analyse how China, Canada, and the EU have responded to the tariffs which President Donald Trump has...
4/8/2025 5:09:00 PM The EU Plans to Respond to the Trump Tariffs: What You Need to Know By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr The Trump tariffs In our briefing of 27 February, we examined the EU’s plans to respond to Trump’s tariffs. Since then, there have been a...
4/8/2025 10:40:43 AM Freshfields Asia-Pacific International Arbitration Update: SIAC, HKIAC, and Singapore arbitration case law By Nicholas Lingard Samantha Tan Rohit Bhat Dennis Xin Desmond Chong +2 more... Show less SIAC-related updates (1) SIAC launches new rules The new SIAC Rules 2025 took effect on 1 January 2025, introducing urgent emergency...
4/7/2025 3:40:00 PM Consumer protection provisions of the UK DMCCA and the CMA’s new enforcement powers are now in force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Rachel Duffy Honor May Joshua Hare +3 more... Show less The majority of the consumer protection provisions of the landmark Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the DMCCA) went live...
4/4/2025 12:31:13 PM Motor Finance hearing in the Supreme Court (1 – 3 April 2025): quick summary By Craig Montgomery Lucy Clark Sunil Singh Janais Bartholomew Eden Werner +2 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court has been hearing the landmark case of Johnson v FirstRand Bank Limited[1]this week and the hearing finished...
4/3/2025 12:20:12 PM Regulating regulators – The UK FCA’s first fine imposed on a Recognised Investment Exchange By Piers Reynolds James Smethurst Jermaine Francis Sharon Grennan +1 more... Show less In its first enforcement decision relating to a Recognised Investment Exchange, the FCA has published a final notice and imposed a...
4/3/2025 11:14:38 AM Employment Rights Bill – a new era for industrial relations? By Holly Insley Rebecca Zech The Employment Rights Bill (first published in October 2024) has recently completed the Committee Stage in the House of Commons during...
4/2/2025 3:17:13 PM Asymmetric jurisdiction clauses – the impact of recent case law on financing transactions By Peter Allen Andrew Heathcote Duncan Kellaway Thomas Clark Martin Hutchings Joe Amann Reena Parmar Ashmita Garrett Jessica Wrigley Kacey Brown +7 more... Show less The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of Società Italiana Lastre SpA (SIL) v Agora SARL, casts doubt on...
4/2/2025 12:53:37 PM ESMA Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms – What are their implications for Greenwashing liability and litigation risks in Germany? By Lukas Pfister Johanna Möller Over the last years, the combination of regulatory reporting requirements and an increasing number of cases that further define civil...
4/1/2025 8:25:46 AM Product Risks Today: How the new Product Liability Directive facilitates private enforcement By Moritz Becker Anita Bell Hannah Meyer The EU’s new Product Liability Directive (PLD), effective as of 8 December 2024, brings significant updates to the 1985 product liability...
3/31/2025 3:46:57 PM The FCA’s plans for the next 5 years: rebalancing risk, supporting growth By Michael Raffan Noah Schmidt Jessica Frampton Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 25 March 2025, the FCA published its new strategy for the next five years, with the stated goals of “deepening trust, rebalancing...