3/30/2026 8:56:09 AM Key Duties For Italian Companies With Employees Seconded In Armed Conflict Areas By Luca Capone Giovanni Fabris Introduction While seconding employees abroad is a common practice in a globalized economy, a critical question arises when an armed...
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3/2/2026 2:50:02 PM EU-UK Competition Cooperation Agreement: What it means for cross-Channel enforcement By Dominic Divivier Colin Raftery Andreas von Bonin Nick English Ole Schley +2 more... Show less The EU and the United Kingdom signed the EU-UK Competition Cooperation Agreement on 25 February 2026 (Agreement), establishing a formal...
1/20/2026 8:19:18 PM UK Government Heralds Major Changes to UK Merger Control Regime By James Aitken Colin Raftery On 20 January 2026, the UK government announced a range of proposed reforms to the UK merger control regime. The proposals are, once...
1/20/2026 5:16:05 PM Greenland tariff threats – assessing the EU and UK responses and considering the US legal basis By Claire Harrop Martin McElwee Nabeel Yousef Lorand Bartels Ioana-Virginia Motoc +2 more... Show less 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 2:10:51 PM The year ahead in financial services: 12 trends to watch in 2026 By Christopher Bernard Sharon Grennan 2025 was another transformative year for the financial services industry. Geopolitical risks arising from conflicts in Ukraine and...
12/3/2025 9:03:47 AM The 40th Freshfields Arbitration Lecture: Meg Kinnear Reflects on the Legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11 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...
7/16/2025 8:01:04 AM EU Steps Up on Algorithmic Pricing Cartels, Joining the US and Other Jurisdictions By Tobias Klose Bruce McCulloch Uta Itzen Dominic Divivier Thomas Lübbig Frank Felgentraeger +3 more... Show less Until recently, some compliance departments may have treated algorithmic pricing more as a theoretical antitrust risk in the EU – a topic...
6/6/2025 8:28:57 AM Tax matters: Trump 2.0 -the intersection of US tax and trade policy By Alison Dickie The second Trump administration has made numerous announcements on trade and tariffs, but US tax policy is increasingly woven into the...
4/30/2025 1:06:25 PM The threat of EU counter-tariffs – how businesses importing goods from the US can mitigate their exposure under EU customs law By Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Dr. Sebastian Röger Hendrik Menzel Until recently, most EU businesses importing products from the US have not had to worry about the intricacies of EU customs law, as EU...
4/30/2025 12:26:24 PM Competition law and labour markets – looking beyond no-poach and wage-fixing agreements By Maria Dreher-Lorje Florian Reiter-Werzin Martin McElwee Thomas Janssens Angela Landry +2 more... Show less In recent years, competition authorities around the world have begun to focus on labour markets. They now treat agreements between...
3/28/2025 3:54:11 PM The future of open banking: UK, EU, and US perspectives By Claire Harrop David Sewell Daniel Klingenbrunn Christopher Bernard Katrina Paliukenas +2 more... Show less Open banking promises to unlock innovation and empower customers by enabling financial information to be shared between traditional banks...