Freshfields Risk & Compliance

3/20/2026 2:15:13 PM

High stakes in the Strait of Hormuz: Force majeure and supply chain disruptions

By Noiana Marigo Joshua Kelly Xin Liu +5 more...

Amidst escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has affected energy markets,...

1/20/2026 5:16:05 PM

By Claire Harrop Martin McElwee Nabeel Yousef +2 more...

On 17 January 2026, the President of the United States publicly threatened to impose tariffs (up to 10 percent on February 1, rising to...

1/13/2026 11:26:27 AM

By Paul van den Berg Vanessa van Weelden Andreas von Bonin +3 more...

The European Commission (Commission) has now published its Guidelines on the application of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). These...

12/16/2025 11:29:57 AM

By Luca Capone Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri +1 more...

Part 2 of a two-part series on effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk Italy’s fight against labour exploitation in...

12/9/2025 3:06:46 PM

By Luca Capone Moritz Pellmann Federico Mercuri +1 more...

Part 1 of a two-part series on effectively managing Caporalato-related supply chain risk Earlier this year, we examined the growing...

12/3/2025 9:03:47 AM

By Ashley Jones Oliver Marsden Gustav Brincat

On 12 November 2025, Meg Kinnear, who served as ICSID Secretary-General from 2009 until 2024, delivered the 40th Freshfields Arbitration...

10/1/2025 6:38:27 PM

By Natascha Doll Thomas Lübbig Stephan Waldhausen +3 more...

On the occasion of the Warsaw Security Forum, Freshfields, in cooperation with our StrongerTogether partner firm Rymarz Zdort Maruta,...

10/1/2025 9:53:14 AM

By Noiana Marigo Carsten Wendler Yuri Mantilla +3 more...

On 3 September 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) submitted two proposals for the signing and provisional application of...

9/4/2025 9:17:29 AM

By Stephanie Brown Cripps Martin McElwee Lorand Bartels +1 more...

Introduction On 21 August 2025, the United States and the European Union unveiled a new Framework on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced...

7/15/2025 3:12:38 PM

By Rohit Bhat Piusha Bose Boyan Arshinkov

Introduction On 6 May 2025, the UK and India signed the long-awaited Free Trade Agreement (FTA), expected to double bilateral trade and...

6/30/2025 10:41:24 AM

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

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...