8/19/2025 12:34:56 PM Expanding the Legal Toolkit: The EU’s New Tools Against Sanctioned Russian Investors By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Leane Meyer Valerio Letizia Gonzalo Salazar +3 more... Show less On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its 18th sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Alongside a...
8/18/2025 8:43:28 AM Another major hurdle cleared: DC District Court enforces intra-EU ICSID Awards in the US By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Paige von Mehren Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less As discussed in our previous update, in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) removed...
8/8/2025 8:52:44 AM Freshfields Hosts Africa Arbitration Academy for Sixth Consecutive Year By Stephanie Mbonu Joshua Kelly Gregorio Pettazzi Thembela Ndwandwe Veronika Timofeeva Robert Colvin Camille Strosser +4 more... Show less On June 17 2025, Freshfields’ London office proudly hosted the 2025 cohort of the Africa Arbitration Academy (AAA), welcoming 27 mid to...
7/21/2025 8:20:11 AM Labour exploitation in the context of supply chains is still under the radar of Italian public prosecutors By Luca Capone Federico Mercuri Matteo Tola Giovanni Fabris Giacomo Vergallo +2 more... Show less Introduction In 2024, Italian public prosecutors (especially, the Milan one) increasingly focused their attention on the issue of labour...
7/14/2025 12:19:11 PM Renewed plans for a new online procedure for civil proceedings in Germany – the first real-world laboratory procedure in the German justice system By Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Elisabeth Weber Stefanie Fay Katharina Shingler Fabian Seigfried Helena Pilz +3 more... Show less The German justice system is continuing to become more digital. One of the further planned innovations to achieve this is a proposal by...
7/4/2025 7:21:34 AM Enforcement of judgments made easier between the EU and UK: The Hague Convention enters into force in the UK By Ali Kirby-Harris Nathalie Colin Carsten Wendler Anne-Laure Vincent Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Jose Luis Prieto Katharina Shingler Gregorio Pettazzi Domen Tursic +6 more... Show less The Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Convention),...
6/19/2025 1:22:26 PM UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal strike out of bifurcated representative actions in shareholder claims By Sarah Parkes Emma Probyn Maisie Stewart Elke Kendall Anoushka Nightingale Feon Wong +3 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court has declined to grant permission to appeal the strike out of representative actions brought by shareholders against...
6/6/2025 11:56:10 AM Market volatility and UK defined contribution pensions: future risks for employers? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee In our previous blog, we considered the risks under the current legal regime in the UK to employers, trustees and providers arising from...
5/29/2025 1:08:02 PM German court denies Russian arbitral award recognition on the basis of EU sanctions By Clemens Treichl Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Hager Sameh +1 more... Show less Russia’s measures against so-called “unfriendly states” and consecutive sanctions packages from the EU, amongst others, have led to the...
5/27/2025 11:56:42 AM Market volatility and defined contribution pensions: a new dawn for mass claims? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee The recent fallout in global markets as a result of US President Trump’s trade tariff announcements may recall, to the minds of UK...
5/26/2025 7:54:03 AM Product Risks Today: Digital services in the scope of the new Product Liability Directive By Moritz Becker Lutz Riede Kristina Weiler Anita Bell Hannah Meyer +2 more... Show less Introduction The new Product Liability Directive (PLD) marks a significant evolution in European liability law. While traditionally...
4/25/2025 11:09:25 AM Tariff Crisis: Navigating Contractual Challenges and Remedies for Businesses operating in Germany By Roman Mallmann Moritz Becker Sarah Hillebrand Hendric Labonté Jakob Zumbé +2 more... Show less The recent escalation of US tariffs on imports from around the world, and tariff retaliation from (so far) China and Canada, and...