20 Feb, 2024 International Arbitration: top trends in 2024 By Ashley Jones Freshfields has launched International arbitration: top trends in 2024. Our annual report, compiled by international arbitration...
28 Sep, 2022 The AAA updates its Commercial Arbitration Rules: What are the key changes? By Thomas Walsh Christian Vandergeest Peter Kim The American Arbitration Association (AAA) recently issued amendments to its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The Commercial Arbitration...
31 Mar, 2022 Investment Treaty Disputes in the Natural Resources Sector in Latin America: What issues to consider when calculating damages? By Noiana Marigo Hinda Rabkin Many investment treaty arbitrations in Latin America relate to investments in the natural resources sector. This is unsurprising. Latin...
01 Feb, 2022 Renewable energy projects and state risks By Marta García Bel Robert Colvin Shannon O’Neill Clara Bianchi Ferran Audrey Sebatindira +2 more... Show less As the energy transition gathers pace, renewable energy projects are on the rise, with investors and project owners alike keen to take...
14 Apr, 2021 Comparing the EU’s Representative Actions Directive to US class action procedures By Linda Martin Henry Hutten This fifth blog in our series examining the EU Representative Actions Directive ("the Directive") considers how lawsuits proceeding...
02 Mar, 2021 WorkLife 2.0: from our US correspondent – an interview with Boris Feldman By Nicola Jones Boris Feldman It is undisputedly a time of transition and transformation in the US. But what does this mean for whistleblowing and in particular,...
16 Feb, 2021 German taxation of non-German IP transactions – new decree assists some multinationals but forces others to litigate By Martin Rehberg Philipp Redeker Magnus Bleifeld Prof. Dr. Norbert Schneider Christian Sistermann Jan Brinkmann +3 more... Show less For almost a year, there has been a fierce debate about whether Germany has the right to tax (based on a very old and formerly unenforced...
20 Jan, 2021 Does the IaaS order represent the emergence of anti-cloud laundering law? By Peter Jaffe Daniel Braun Kimberly Zelnick Nabeel Yousef +1 more... Show less In one of the final acts of the Trump administration, the White House yesterday directed the Commerce Department to issue regulations...
15 Jan, 2021 US multinationals and German dividends – withholding tax relief at risk? By Stephan Eilers David Beutel Philipp Redeker Florian Oppel +1 more... Show less The relief from withholding taxes (WHT) is an important parameter for corporate structures and tax planning of multinational enterprises...
15 Dec, 2020 US federal banking regulators joins the growing regulatory response to operational resilience By Rhodri Thomas Peter Jaffe Kimberly Zelnick Simon Orton Laura Feldman +2 more... Show less As we envisaged in our recent earlier blog post, the US Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and FDIC have...
02 Dec, 2020 A banner year: the CFTC Division of Enforcement’s FY 2020 annual report By Mark Goldberg On December 1, 2020, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)’s Division of Enforcement ("the Division") released its fiscal...
02 Dec, 2020 Bolivia strikes investor-State arbitration again? By Noiana Marigo Kate Apostolova In October of this year, Bolivia ratified the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (the...