On 13 June 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for regulating ESG rating providers. This draft EU Regulation (the...
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On 28 March 2023, an expert roundtable with Freshfields and global companies from different sectors met in Brussels with the responsible...
Early this year in February, the European Commission proposed its new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) that would...
The adopted German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act ('the Act') has attracted a lot of attention from the legal and business worlds. What...
With the final deliberations of the German Bundesrat on 25 June 2021, the German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (the Act) has officially...
After several months of intra-governmental discussions, a first official legislative proposal on a Human Rights Supply Chain Duty of Care...
On the International Human Rights Day in December 2020, our German-speaking offices hosted an online panel discussion with key executives...
The UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment today in Shanks v Unilever (link to Supreme Court judgment). This broadens the...
The introduction of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – and more recently legislation such as the UK Modern Slavery...