6/30/2025 10:41:24 AM Trading for Growth: Unpacking the UK’s New Trade Strategy By Lloyd Rees Last Thursday, the UK Government unveiled its new Trade Strategy (the Trade Strategy). It follows on from the publication earlier that...
6/25/2025 9:10:09 AM The UK’s New Industrial Strategy: A 10-Year Vision for Growth By Lloyd Rees On Monday, the UK Government published its long-awaited new Industrial Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy is a 10-year plan to...
4/11/2025 7:47:23 AM German Election #6: The coalition agreement of the new German government - what’s in it for financial services? By Jan Struckmann Theresa Kreft Daniel Klingenbrunn Alicia Hildner Hans-Ulrich Klöppel Alexander Glos +3 more... Show less On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
4/9/2025 8:51:04 PM Trump’s tariffs: WTO consultations requested by China, Canada and the European Union By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr Introduction In this briefing, we analyse how China, Canada, and the EU have responded to the tariffs which President Donald Trump has...
4/8/2025 5:09:00 PM The EU Plans to Respond to the Trump Tariffs: What You Need to Know By Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels Cara Carr The Trump tariffs In our briefing of 27 February, we examined the EU’s plans to respond to Trump’s tariffs. Since then, there have been a...
3/20/2025 11:52:57 AM UK Government goes full throttle on its growth agenda: New action plan targets financial services regulators By Michael Raffan Elisabeth Overland Tricia Moffat Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 17 March 2025, the UK Government published a policy paper and accompanying press release outlining a new approach to ensure regulators...
3/18/2025 3:17:25 PM Exploratory talks for Germany's future government: Laying the foundation for the path forward By Alex Schmidtke After the collapse of the German government last year and snap elections on 23 February 2025, a new government now appears somewhat...
3/14/2025 1:41:10 PM Recalibrating Compliance Programs Under Trump 2.0 By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Daniel Cendan Emmeline Chen +1 more... Show less Nearly two months into his second presidential term, President Trump and his Administration have engaged in a flurry of activity, issuing...
3/3/2025 11:32:56 AM Shaping Germany’s future: Key takeaways from the 2025 federal election By Alex Schmidtke The 2025 German federal election, held on 23 February 2025, has changed the political landscape of Europe’s largest economy. The...
2/20/2025 7:59:44 PM State Attorneys General Enter the DEI Fray By Jennifer Loeb Austin Evers Grace Brody Young Park Alice Jeon +2 more... Show less In the wake of President Trump’s sweeping executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and the...
2/14/2025 1:23:31 PM Freshfields’ geopolitical conversations at Munich Security Conference 2025 By Beth George Maximilian Lasson Ilka Oberländer Malte Symann Alex Schmidtke Christian Altenhofen +3 more... Show less What specific impacts of geopolitical tensions are companies facing today? How should governments balance free trade with the protection...
2/13/2025 3:50:42 PM The UK Government’s Strategic Steer to the CMA: Impact on UK M&A (Part 2) By Colin Raftery Sharon Malhi Karen Slaney Today, the UK government issued its draft strategic steer to the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) for consultation. Our separate...