5/5/2025 3:35:13 PM German Election #8 – What real estate investors need to know about the new coalition agreement By Timo Elsner Julia Haas Gerrit Beckhaus Niko Schultz-Süchting Jan Matauschek +2 more... Show less In Germany, a new administration is about to come into office following the 2025 federal elections. Friedrich Merz, leader of the...
4/30/2025 1:06:25 PM The threat of EU counter-tariffs – how businesses importing goods from the US can mitigate their exposure under EU customs law By Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Dr. Sebastian Röger Hendrik Menzel Until recently, most EU businesses importing products from the US have not had to worry about the intricacies of EU customs law, as EU...
4/30/2025 12:26:24 PM Competition law and labour markets – looking beyond no-poach and wage-fixing agreements By Maria Dreher-Lorje Florian Reiter-Werzin Martin McElwee Thomas Janssens Angela Landry +2 more... Show less In recent years, competition authorities around the world have begun to focus on labour markets. They now treat agreements between...
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...
4/11/2025 7:47:23 AM German Election #6: The coalition agreement of the new German government - what’s in it for financial services? By Jan Struckmann Theresa Kreft Daniel Klingenbrunn Alicia Hildner Hans-Ulrich Klöppel Alexander Glos +3 more... Show less On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
4/1/2025 8:25:46 AM Product Risks Today: How the new Product Liability Directive facilitates private enforcement By Moritz Becker Anita Bell Hannah Meyer The EU’s new Product Liability Directive (PLD), effective as of 8 December 2024, brings significant updates to the 1985 product liability...
3/28/2025 3:54:11 PM The future of open banking: UK, EU, and US perspectives By Claire Harrop David Sewell Daniel Klingenbrunn Christopher Bernard Katrina Paliukenas +2 more... Show less Open banking promises to unlock innovation and empower customers by enabling financial information to be shared between traditional banks...
3/26/2025 9:27:56 AM A Growing Branch of Supply Chain Risk: the Timber Regulations By Matthew Bruce Tahleel Lateef Charlotte Dunn Introduction In recent years, multinational corporations have been under growing regulatory pressure to manage the risks which arise from...
3/24/2025 8:26:55 PM New sanctions legislation targeting sanctions circumvention – what does this mean for financial institutions? By Xiao Zhang Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention...
3/18/2025 3:17:25 PM Exploratory talks for Germany's future government: Laying the foundation for the path forward By Alex Schmidtke After the collapse of the German government last year and snap elections on 23 February 2025, a new government now appears somewhat...
3/3/2025 11:32:56 AM Shaping Germany’s future: Key takeaways from the 2025 federal election By Alex Schmidtke The 2025 German federal election, held on 23 February 2025, has changed the political landscape of Europe’s largest economy. The...
2/14/2025 1:23:31 PM Freshfields’ geopolitical conversations at Munich Security Conference 2025 By Beth George Maximilian Lasson Ilka Oberländer Malte Symann Alex Schmidtke Christian Altenhofen +3 more... Show less What specific impacts of geopolitical tensions are companies facing today? How should governments balance free trade with the protection...