On 13 June 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for regulating ESG rating providers. This draft EU Regulation (the...
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The German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz; the Act) entered into force on 1 January 2023 for the...
It is said to have been one of the hottest summers in Germany since weather records were kept - the heated atmosphere in the money...
With the growing legal significance of ESG topics for corporate management the question arises whether ESG investigations should be...
Combating money laundering and terrorist financing remains very much the focus of enforcement authorities worldwide. For example, the...
The adopted German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act ('the Act') has attracted a lot of attention from the legal and business worlds. What...
On the International Human Rights Day in December 2020, our German-speaking offices hosted an online panel discussion with key executives...
EU lawmakers have significantly stepped up their game when it comes to compliance. Nowadays, EU directives and regulations strongly...
The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has issued new guidance for its prosecutors on evaluating corporate compliance programmes (the...
On December 31, 2019, Judge Jane Boyle of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas canceled (PDF) the 2017 penalty...
On 13 March 2019, the new law on trade secrets (secretos empresariales) came into force. This Spanish law is (late in) implementing...
Many contracts contain clauses excusing parties from performance by reference to international sanctions. The High Court’s very recent...