23 Feb, 2024 Increased investment protection: The ratification of the Iraq-UAE BIT By Sami Tannous Ann Matthias Ahmed Mazlom Background Iraq has historically proven to be a challenging market for investors. Investment protection treaties such as bilateral...
22 Jan, 2024 New Rules for Political Influencing in Germany: An update to Germany's Lobbying Register Act By Alex Schmidtke Lena Hanke Laura Knoke 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...
19 Jun, 2023 Fourth EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council summit: the transatlantic partnership shows first achievements By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Pablo Artero Lines Renea Kamenjasevic Following the launch of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) on 15 June 2021, both jurisdictions have maintained intensive...
23 Sep, 2022 The Growth Plan 2022: the key tax takeaways By Laura Western Trailed since the Conservative Party announced at the start of the month that Liz Truss had been elected to be the new party leader and...
06 Jul, 2022 UK biological security strategy: public consultation response indicates increased threat By Harriet Hanks James Smith Vaibhav Manchanda The UK government has recently published a summary of public responses to its Call for Evidence, which it launched in February with the...
10 May, 2022 EU citizens submit their wish list for the Europe of tomorrow By Andreas von Bonin Lea Bareil On 9 May 2022, “Europe Day”, Strasbourg was home to the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFE), an...
23 Mar, 2022 Reforming the exclusion rules in UK public procurement By Oliver Sangster Ben Morgan Under the current procurement rules, parties can be excluded from bidding for public contracts on the basis of their past conduct. For...
28 Feb, 2022 UK government call for evidence on review of biological security strategy By Harriet Hanks James Smith Andrew Austin The UK government is reviewing its biological security strategy and has issued a multi-disciplinary call for evidence from health and...
01 Feb, 2022 Renewable energy projects and state risks By Marta García Bel Robert Colvin Shannon O’Neill Clara Bianchi Ferran Audrey Sebatindira +2 more... Show less As the energy transition gathers pace, renewable energy projects are on the rise, with investors and project owners alike keen to take...
02 Feb, 2021 2020 Year-in-Review Top 5 in Investor-State Arbitration: India By Nigel Blackaby KC Kate Apostolova India has a long and eventful history in Investor-State arbitration. In this blogpost, we review the highlights and lowlights of...
20 Apr, 2020 Are you contracting with the UK government? Key issues for construction suppliers in the Cabinet Office’s model terms for COVID-19 relief By Hannah Smith Further to our blog post which covered the Cabinet Office’s guidance on implementing Procurement Policy Note (PPN 02/20) in government...
09 Apr, 2020 Are you contracting with the UK government? UK Cabinet Office publishes specific guidance for construction contracts further to its measures to protect government supply chains By Hannah Smith Kate Gough The UK Cabinet Office released guidance this week on how contracting authorities should provide relief to at risk suppliers in existing...