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)...
8/28/2025 8:17:43 PM Road to CRD: What’s Changing for Fit and Proper Requirements and Board Governance in Germany? By Janina Heinz Alicia Hildner Jan Struckmann Falko Glasow +1 more... Show less Road to CRD 6 – What’s Changing for Fit and Proper Requirements and Board Governance in Germany? After much anticipation, the German...
8/22/2025 8:48:15 AM Road to CRD 6 – Good things come to those who wait – or do they? The German implementation of Article 21c By Jan Struckmann Alexander Glos Falko Glasow The long awaited and highly anticipated German draft act for the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/1619 (CRD 6) has finally been...
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...
8/1/2025 8:54:16 AM Omnibus in Action: What it means for corporations in Germany and Italy By Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Umberto Parmigiani Cristina Hajek Gross +1 more... Show less The European Union’s (EU) approach to corporate sustainability regulation has entered a period of profound reassessment. In response to...
7/23/2025 9:04:35 AM European Commission Says Leniency Returns – How DG COMP Tries to Rebalance Detection and Incentives By Tobias Klose Dominic Divivier Thomas Lübbig Frank Felgentraeger +1 more... Show less After years of declining leniency applications, the European Commission is now reporting a notable recovery. In a recent episode of the...
7/16/2025 8:01:04 AM EU Steps Up on Algorithmic Pricing Cartels, Joining the US and Other Jurisdictions By Tobias Klose Bruce McCulloch Uta Itzen Dominic Divivier Thomas Lübbig Frank Felgentraeger +3 more... Show less Until recently, some compliance departments may have treated algorithmic pricing more as a theoretical antitrust risk in the EU – a topic...