Jun 30, 2020 UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 now in force By Katharina Crinson This blog post was written by a Freshfields team comprising Ken Baird, Richard Tett, Adam Gallagher, Catherine Balmond, Lindsay Hingston,...
Jun 29, 2020 A (post) COVID-19 approach to sale and purchase agreements – part 1 of 4 By Jochen Ellrott A lot has been written about the macro-economic environment in which we expect to find ourselves as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic....
Jun 26, 2020 The UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – greater protections for defined-benefit pension schemes confirmed By Dawn Heath Samuel Taylor We reported in our previous blog published on 15 June 2020 ('The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill – a pensions perspective') that...
Jun 23, 2020 The politics of global M&A: navigating foreign investment controls By Jenny Leahy The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated global trends towards more expansive reviews of foreign direct investment (FDI). The first half of...
Jun 23, 2020 UK Government widens its powers to intervene in acquisitions By Sarah Jensen Michele Davis Companies deemed critical to combating COVID-19 and future public health emergencies gain protection as additional sectors are brought...
Jun 19, 2020 Wide-ranging new EU tool targets foreign state subsidies By Joanna Goyder The European Commission’s controversial white paper on levelling the playing field as regards foreign subsidies (PDF) published on 17...
Jun 18, 2020 PostNL/Sandd: Dutch court annuls first ministerial merger licence By Felix Roscam Abbing Winfred Knibbeler Paul van den Berg The District Court of Rotterdam on 11 June 2020 annulled the Minister of Economic Affairs’ decision to grant a licence for the...
Jun 16, 2020 Deal preparation remains vital in dynamic and innovation-led sectors: UK competition regulator publishes lessons from Illumina/PacBio By Alessandra Galea Rikki Haria Mergers in rapidly developing, dynamic and innovation-led markets are increasingly coming under scrutiny from competition authorities....
Jun 15, 2020 The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill – a pensions perspective By Dawn Heath Katharina Crinson Samuel Taylor The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (the Bill) has been introduced into the UK Parliament and proposes significant changes...
Jun 10, 2020 Three avenues for US distressed M&A By Mark Liscio Madlyn Primoff Scott Talmadge Compared to the 2007-08 financial crisis, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to produce a broader array of asset classes that become available...
Jun 08, 2020 Education – Investment Outlook for the 2020s – Vietnam By Chris Milliken Tony Foster The opportunity Like many other countries, Vietnam closed its schools as a precautionary measure to deal with COVID-19. While initially...
Jun 03, 2020 Foreign investment review in times of COVID-19 – German regulation targets health sector By Frank Röhling Juliane Hilf Jonas von Kalben Uwe Salaschek +1 more... Show less Today, a new regulation entered into force in Germany to increase foreign investment scrutiny in the health sector. The new rules are...