2/20/2025 11:53:38 AM The Procurement Act 2023: a new regime governing bid challenges By Kate Gough Robert Colvin What you need to know if contracting with the UK Government post-24 February 2025. On 14 January 2025, Freshfields and Monckton Chambers...
2/13/2025 11:06:10 AM Freshfields' geopolitical monitor By Beth George Christoph H. Seibt Maximilian Lasson Ilka Oberländer Malte Symann Christian Altenhofen +3 more... Show less Geopolitical risks are a significant concern for businesses and investors in the current global landscape. Understanding these risks is...
11/26/2024 6:03:43 PM 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...
7/30/2024 8:00:10 AM 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...
6/20/2024 3:31:58 PM 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...
3/26/2024 3:11:27 PM 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,...
2/23/2024 8:45:37 AM 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...
1/22/2024 3:06:15 PM 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...
6/19/2023 12:49:04 PM 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...
9/23/2022 3:54:39 PM 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...
7/6/2022 7:49:12 PM 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...
5/10/2022 12:22:33 PM 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...