11/17/2025 2:05:42 PM Between Akzo and the Charter: where EU legal privilege stands after the Commission’s new policy brief By Dominic Divivier Alvaro Pliego Selie Frank Felgentraeger In its latest Competition Policy Brief, European Commission staff (DG Comp) re-examines one of the most-debated questions in EU...
11/12/2025 11:12:35 AM Product Risks Today: Germany’s approach for a new Product Safety Act By Laura Knoke Moritz Becker Anita Bell Rixa Kuhmann +1 more... Show less The German government has introduced a draft bill to update its national Product Safety Act (Produktsicherheitsgesetz – ProdSG).[1] This...
11/10/2025 9:19:12 AM ECJ ruling on leniency statements: balancing cooperation and transparency By Dominic Divivier Thomas Lübbig Frank Felgentraeger In its 30 October 2025 judgment in Case C-2/23 (Baugesellschaft), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) clarified how far the protection of...
10/29/2025 10:11:53 AM Europe 2.0 – Competitive and Autonomous: Key Insights from the CEE Finance Workshop By Victoria Bazil Florian Klimscha Stephan Pachinger Anouschka Zagorski Eva Schneider Maximilian Hohenauer Maximilian Ihra +4 more... Show less On 23 October 2025, the Freshfields Vienna team welcomed legal experts and financial leaders to its Vienna office for its 17th annual CEE...
10/23/2025 9:45:23 AM Spanish Courts order refund of withholding tax on dividends received by non-resident, loss-making companies By Maria Mera Álvaro Fernández Carmen Delgado The Spanish High Court and the Basque Country High Court recently issued two judgments in favour of Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd...
10/1/2025 6:38:27 PM Freshfields’ geopolitical conversations in Warsaw 2025 By Natascha Doll Thomas Lübbig Stephan Waldhausen Mariusz Motyka-Mojkowski Alex Schmidtke Malte Symann +3 more... Show less On the occasion of the Warsaw Security Forum, Freshfields, in cooperation with our StrongerTogether partner firm Rymarz Zdort Maruta,...
10/1/2025 9:53:14 AM Beyond the Horizon: the EU's New Agreements with Mexico and Mercosur States (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) By Noiana Marigo Carsten Wendler Yuri Mantilla Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar Paulina Araiza Lozano +3 more... Show less On 3 September 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) submitted two proposals for the signing and provisional application of...
9/17/2025 12:04:19 PM The European Commission Issues First-Ever Fine for Providing Incomplete Information in Antitrust Investigation By Tobias Klose Dominic Divivier Tine Rasmussen On 8 September 2025, the European Commission (EC) announced a €172,000 fine on Eurofield SAS (Eurofield) and Unanime Sport SAS (Unanime...
9/16/2025 11:14:23 AM Product Risks Today: The draft implementation bill of the EU Product Liability Directive By Moritz Becker Kristina Weiler Anita Bell Hannah Meyer +1 more... Show less I. Introduction With the adoption of the new EU Product Liability Directive 2024/2853 (the Directive) in December 2024, EU Member States...
9/8/2025 9:05:04 AM No immunity, no EU law defences: Federal Court of Australia enforces intra-EU ICSID awards By Noiana Marigo Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Joshua Kelly Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar Alice Ding Domen Tursic +5 more... Show less On 29 August 2025, the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) confirmed that four ICSID awards rendered under the Energy Charter Treaty...
9/4/2025 9:17:29 AM The EU-US Trade Framework – The Battle Continues By Stephanie Brown Cripps Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr +1 more... Show less Introduction On 21 August 2025, the United States and the European Union unveiled a new Framework on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced...
8/30/2025 7:14:56 PM EBA Publishes Final Draft RTS: A New Step Towards Harmonising Crypto Asset Exposures By Alexander Glos Holger Hartenfels Daniel Klingenbrunn On 5 August 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its final report on the draft regulatory technical standards (Draft RTS)...