9/11/2025 8:48:40 AM High Court reinforces need for scrutiny of costs in large-scale group litigation By James Roberts Simon Duncombe Benjamin Ng Alice Goodinge Owen Jack +2 more... Show less The High Court has reaffirmed a number of key principles for managing costs in large-scale group litigation, following a two-day hearing...
9/8/2025 9:05:04 AM No immunity, no EU law defences: Federal Court of Australia enforces intra-EU ICSID awards By Noiana Marigo Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Joshua Kelly Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar Alice Ding Domen Tursic +5 more... Show less On 29 August 2025, the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) confirmed that four ICSID awards rendered under the Energy Charter Treaty...
8/19/2025 12:34:56 PM Expanding the Legal Toolkit: The EU’s New Tools Against Sanctioned Russian Investors By Noah Rubins KC Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Leane Meyer Valerio Letizia Gonzalo Salazar +3 more... Show less On 18 July 2025, the European Union adopted its 18th sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war against Ukraine. Alongside a...
8/18/2025 8:43:28 AM Another major hurdle cleared: DC District Court enforces intra-EU ICSID Awards in the US By Noiana Marigo David Livshiz Carsten Wendler Eric Leikin Paige von Mehren Gregorio Pettazzi Gonzalo Salazar +4 more... Show less As discussed in our previous update, in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) removed...
8/13/2025 3:12:03 PM False Claims Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Peter Linken Emmeline Chen Over halfway through the first year of President Trump’s second term, the Administration has employed a range of legal and regulatory...
8/1/2025 8:54:16 AM Omnibus in Action: What it means for corporations in Germany and Italy By Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri Umberto Parmigiani Cristina Hajek Gross +1 more... Show less The European Union’s (EU) approach to corporate sustainability regulation has entered a period of profound reassessment. In response to...
7/21/2025 8:20:11 AM Labour exploitation in the context of supply chains is still under the radar of Italian public prosecutors By Luca Capone Federico Mercuri Matteo Tola Giovanni Fabris Giacomo Vergallo +2 more... Show less Introduction In 2024, Italian public prosecutors (especially, the Milan one) increasingly focused their attention on the issue of labour...
7/17/2025 1:46:22 PM Saudi Arabia Introduces New Measures to Advance International Arbitration By Amani Khalifa Kamel Diab Amr Omran Fulwah Alhamed Rawan Bahamran +2 more... Show less The Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA) has announced a wide-ranging initiative of the Council of Ministers aimed at enhancing...
7/14/2025 12:19:11 PM Renewed plans for a new online procedure for civil proceedings in Germany – the first real-world laboratory procedure in the German justice system By Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden Elisabeth Weber Stefanie Fay Katharina Shingler Fabian Seigfried Helena Pilz +3 more... Show less The German justice system is continuing to become more digital. One of the further planned innovations to achieve this is a proposal by...
6/19/2025 1:22:26 PM UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal strike out of bifurcated representative actions in shareholder claims By Sarah Parkes Emma Probyn Maisie Stewart Elke Kendall Anoushka Nightingale Feon Wong +3 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court has declined to grant permission to appeal the strike out of representative actions brought by shareholders against...
6/6/2025 11:56:10 AM Market volatility and UK defined contribution pensions: future risks for employers? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee In our previous blog, we considered the risks under the current legal regime in the UK to employers, trustees and providers arising from...
5/27/2025 11:56:42 AM Market volatility and defined contribution pensions: a new dawn for mass claims? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee The recent fallout in global markets as a result of US President Trump’s trade tariff announcements may recall, to the minds of UK...