7/3/2025 10:23:30 AM Green Goals, Red Tape: Aarhus Convention’s Impact on EU State aid procedure By Onno Brouwer Andreas von Bonin Florian Reiter-Werzin Conor Leavy Isabel Chaves +2 more... Show less In May 2025, the European Commission (EC) amended the State aid rules to ensure compliance with the European Union’s (EU) obligations...
6/30/2025 12:40:10 PM CISAF: The EU’s ambitious State aid framework for competitive decarbonisation By Andreas von Bonin Deborah Janssens Jérôme Philippe Elaine Pajeot Aurélie Morreale Florian Reiter-Werzin Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. +4 more... Show less To reach its ambitious 2050 climate neutrality goal, the European Union (EU) is determined to decarbonise its most greenhouse gas (GHG)...
6/24/2025 3:46:10 PM Roadmap for EU Defence Consolidation: Guidance on M&A and State aid in the EU Commission’s Defence Readiness Omnibus By Andreas von Bonin Thomas Janssens Katharina Kunert Edward Dean Conor Leavy +2 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) recently unveiled its Defence Readiness Omnibus (the Omnibus), an initiative designed to reduce regulatory...
6/6/2025 8:27:26 AM SAMR to introduce long-awaited clarification on safe harbor rules for vertical agreements By Hazel Yin Wenting Ge Xiaopeng Lai On 3 June 2025, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) published for public comment its proposed revisions to the...
5/19/2025 10:43:04 AM The European Court of Justice rules on the parallel imposition requirement in exclusive distribution networks: the importance of evidence By Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Tone Oeyen Paul van den Berg Thomas Lübbig Rory Jones Laure de Chalendar +3 more... Show less On 8 May 2025, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) gave its preliminary ruling in the Beevers Kaas v Albert Heijn dispute, a case...
4/30/2025 12:26:24 PM Competition law and labour markets – looking beyond no-poach and wage-fixing agreements By Maria Dreher-Lorje Florian Reiter-Werzin Martin McElwee Thomas Janssens Angela Landry +2 more... Show less In recent years, competition authorities around the world have begun to focus on labour markets. They now treat agreements between...
3/6/2025 11:01:10 AM Moving goalposts of the German transaction value threshold: An end to broad and vague interpretations at last? By Peter Niggemann Frank Montag Ilka Oberländer Dominic Divivier Vera Barthel-Westphal Jonas Levermann Miriam Swamy +4 more... Show less Since it was introduced to German merger control in 2017, the transaction value threshold has caused significant uncertainties for...
2/13/2025 3:50:42 PM The UK Government’s Strategic Steer to the CMA: Impact on UK M&A (Part 2) By Colin Raftery Sharon Malhi Karen Slaney Today, the UK government issued its draft strategic steer to the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) for consultation. Our separate...
2/13/2025 3:23:41 PM The UK Government’s Strategic Steer to the CMA: Resetting the priorities (Part 1) By Colin Raftery Sharon Malhi Cara Carr Today, the UK government issued its draft strategic steer to the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) for consultation. Why does the...
2/13/2025 11:06:10 AM Freshfields' geopolitical monitor By Beth George Christoph H. Seibt Maximilian Lasson Ilka Oberländer Malte Symann Christian Altenhofen +3 more... Show less Geopolitical risks are a significant concern for businesses and investors in the current global landscape. Understanding these risks is...
2/12/2025 3:07:35 PM German Election #3: How Germany’s vote could reshape the EU By Alex Schmidtke Natalie Pettinger Kearney Léa Bareil Germany’s upcoming election isn’t just about who governs in Berlin – it’s about the direction Europe will take. On 23 February 2025,...
1/27/2025 7:48:38 PM Life sciences – what to watch in 2025 By Adam Golden Kristen Riemenschneider Madeleine Tavcar We asked more than 200 Freshfields lawyers – across geographies and practice areas: what are the 1-2 issues top of mind for you and your...