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Regulation 2024/2019 (Amending Regulation as published on 12 August 2024 in the Official Journal L) amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Statute of the Court of Justice...
On 20 June 2024, the UK Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (on the application of Finch on behalf of Weald Action Group) (Appellant) v Surrey County Council and others (...
Five years ago, when Diem (formerly known as Libra) was announced to the market, the potential and need for a revolution in digital payments was clear. However, the readiness of central banks, ...
In its widely commented decision no. 24-D-05, the French Competition Authority (FCA) ruled that mergers below the thresholds - in this case, 21 business transfers between three companies, leading to ...
The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, as supplemented by the detailed guidance in the Foreign Subsidies Implementing Regulation, is intended to fill a gap perceived by the EU Commission in the ...
Beneficial ownership and entitlement are pervasive concepts in tax law. The Court of Appeal’s decision in Hargreaves offers an opportune reminder of the domestic meaning of these terms, including ...
Summary of the seminar jointly hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. On 4 June 2024, Rasul Butt, Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong ...
Richard Bird, Fan Li, Leslie Xu The PRC Data Security Law (DSL) set up a categorisation and grading system for ‘important data’ accounting for the importance of the data on economic and social ...
The EU Listing Act Package comprises several legislative proposals for changes to the EU Prospectus Regulation, the EU Market Abuse Regulation, EU MiFIR and EU MiFID II, as well as the introduction ...
Listed Company Academy: Hot Topics The slides and video recording of the session are available here: Slides for Listed Company Academy – 23 May 2024 (the password to access the video recording has ...
The recent decision of the Court of Appeal in BlackRock Holdco 5, LLC v HMRC [2024] EWCA Civ 330 is the latest judicial pronouncement on two UK tax issues arising from the BlackRock group’s $13.5bn ...
‘The ambitious regulatory regime that underpins the European Green Deal poses plenty of opportunities and challenges for companies. Our Freshfields ESG and Sustainability team is increasingly ...
Last Friday, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) published consultation conclusions: to bring in new climate-related disclosure requirements (New Climate Requirements) to enhance climate-related ...
While the first revision of the AIFMD, which entered into force on 15 April 2024, does not entail a radical reform, AIFMD II brings some minor but significant changes to the regulation of both AIFs ...
With the ESG Rating Provider Regulation, the EU is the first jurisdiction in the world to move to regulate the nascent ESG rating market. The aim of the regulation is to facilitate progress towards ...
The recent UK First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision in The Boston Consulting Group UK LLP & Others v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 84 (BCG) concerned the tax treatment of certain ‘capital interests’ held by the ...
(Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Ltd v Chlodwig Enterprises Ltd and other companies [2023] EWHC 3160 (Comm)) Summary The claimant applied for an anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunction (ASI and AASI)...
This article by Emma Probyn and Sophie Horton discusses banking and financial services litigation from the English courts in 2023, and trends for 2024. This article first appeared in the January/...
This article by Tom Clark and Sharon Grennan discusses trends in financial services enforcement in 2023, and predictions for what is on the horizon in 2024. This article was first published in ...
On 29 December, the last working day of 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) of China concluded its seventh and final session of the year and passed a number of ...