26 Nov, 2024 ESG ratings providers to be regulated in the UK By Anthea Bowater Elisabeth Overland Hannah Bergin This month the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, confirmed as part of her first Mansion House speech the UK Government’s...
30 Jul, 2024 The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation public procurement tool – key takeaways after the first year of application By Ilka Oberländer Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Kate Gough Anne Dos Sascha Arnold Fabian Bickel +3 more... Show less We take the first anniversary of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) as an opportunity to reflect on the EC’s enforcement under the...
20 Jun, 2024 Rolling judicial reviews: does the ECPAT UK claim herald a new era of court monitoring in complex cases? By Robert Colvin Elizabeth Forster On 5 June 2024, the Administrative Court gave its final word on relief in the (relatively) long-running ECPAT UK judicial review (see R...
26 Mar, 2024 Trends in fintech: our EU predictions for 2024 By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Eva Schneider Alicia Hildner Daniel Klingenbrunn Jimena Gonzalez Victor Garcia Lopez +3 more... Show less As we did in 2021, 2022, 2023 we have crowdsourced some fintech predictions for the year ahead from the EU Freshfields Fintech team,...
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...