In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (the PRA) published a joint discussion paper...
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Introduction On 6 May 2025, the UK and India signed the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA), expected to double bilateral trade and...
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After almost a year working its way through Parliament, the Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 15 May...
The Employment Rights Bill (first published in October 2024) has recently completed the Committee Stage in the House of Commons during...
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What you need to know if contracting with the UK Government post-24 February 2025. On 14 January 2025, Freshfields and Monckton Chambers...
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Geopolitical risks are a significant concern for businesses and investors in the current global landscape. Understanding these risks is...
This month the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, confirmed as part of her first Mansion House speech the UK Government’s...
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We take the first anniversary of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) as an opportunity to reflect on the EC’s enforcement under the...
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On 5 June 2024, the Administrative Court gave its final word on relief in the (relatively) long-running ECPAT UK judicial review (see R...
As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team,...
Background Iraq has historically proven to be a challenging market for investors. Investment protection treaties such as bilateral...
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Just in time for the two-year anniversary of the first German Lobbying Register at Federal Level in 2022, the first reform of the German...