The world’s biggest international organisations rely on us to help them make the right decisions in a fast-changing world. We combine the knowledge, experience and energy of the whole firm to solve our clients’ most complex challenges, wherever and whenever they arise.
Our journey so far
Here you’ll find our lawyers’ latest perspectives on the business, legal and wider issues that matter.
Our global teams span specialisms, regions and industries to deliver against three fundamental client needs: transactional, regulatory, risk.
Explaining the culture of a firm is always difficult. But we think ours is special.
The basic position on withholding taxes in facility agreements based on the Loan Market Association’s standard documentation is quite simple. A borrower only withholds taxes on interest payments made...
Key changes to competition and merger enforcement The UK Government’s extensive reforms to the competition and consumer law regimes follow a lengthy period of debate and consultation on the changes ...
The legislative process around the establishment of an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is moving to the next stage. After the European Commission released its initial proposal on a CBAM ...
Listed Company Academy: Activism The slides and video recording of the session are available here: Slides for Listed Company Academy: Activism – 30 March 2022 Video recording of the session In this ...
The Upper Tribunal recently considered key points of principle relating to the interpretation of the UK’s VAT grouping rules in HSBC Electronic Data Processing (Guangdong) Ltd & others v HMRC. In ...
In co-operation with the Institute for Law and Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Center for Financial Studies, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer invites you to join our 3rd ...
On 21 December 2021, the European Parliament’s rapporteur from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Mohammed Chahim, published his draft report on the proposal for ...
According to Commission President von der Leyen, “[t]he European Chips Act will be a game changer for the global competitiveness of Europe's single market.” On 8 February 2022, the Commission ...
By Sarah Parkes and Emma Probyn. This article first appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of PLC Magazine. A number of key decisions from the English courts in 2021 illustrate the litigation ...
By Tom Clark and Sharon Grennan. This article was first published on 24 January 2022 by Thomson Reuters Accelus Regulatory Intelligence. The sum of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory ...
Il 9 dicembre 2021 è stata pubblicata in Gazzetta Ufficiale la legge di riforma del processo civile. Si tratta della legge n. 206 del 26 Novembre 2021 (recante “Delega al Governo per l’efficienza ...
On 26 November 2021, the Italian Parliament passed a new bill (Law No. 206/2021) delegating the Government to adopt one or more decrees to reform the civil justice system. The bill sets out the ...
The UK government recently published a consultation seeking views on the introduction of a new UK corporate re-domiciliation regime. While the proposals primarily require changes to the UK corporate ...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently revived a securities class action lawsuit against Beijing-based Qihoo 360 Technology by investors who claim the company misled them ...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) recommends EU-wide deposit protection of client funds. Client funds that e-money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms deposit with credit ...
In June this year the government announced that new rules would be introduced to ring-fence COVID-19 commercial rent arrears and to introduce a binding arbitration process to resolve disputes where ...
The tax pie will be redistributed – but this must be done fairly and in accordance with the law This article first appeared in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Thursday, 4 November 2021. The end of ...
The European Union has ambitious sustainability goals in the areas of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), to which the financial sector should also contribute by investing in these fields. The ...
People across the world are exposed to climate change to different extents, and the same is true for the workplace. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) that recently took ...
On 23 October, China’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), published the Draft Amendment to the Anti-Monopoly Law (the AML) (the Draft Amendment) for ...