Jul 29, 2020 COVID-19-related ad hoc corporate disclosures in Germany: a Freshfields analysis By Christoph H. Seibt Robert Fischer Freshfields has analysed the 245 ad hoc announcements made by companies listed in Germany between mid-February and mid-April 2020...
Jul 27, 2020 Germany to introduce stricter foreign investment rules - again By Frank Röhling Uwe Salaschek Jonas von Kalben On 17 July 2020, an update to Germany’s foreign investment law entered into force. The key points are as follows: The changes mainly...
Jul 23, 2020 The Abu Dhabi Global Market introduces priority funding for administrators By Katharina Crinson The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) continues to enhance its legislative framework after recently publishing its fourth round of...
Jul 23, 2020 Unsponsored ADR programmes and Rule 10b-5 (again) By Doug Smith David Ludwick Non-US companies face increased hurdles in establishing a lack of involvement in unsponsored ADR programmes to avoid US securities fraud...
Jul 14, 2020 Dutch loan portfolio transactions: Supreme Court judgment By Ivo van Dijk Tim Elkerbout On 10 July 2020, the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) clarified the legal position under Dutch law around the assignability of receivables...
Jul 14, 2020 Sabre/Farelogix: opposing outcomes across the Atlantic – an interventionist approach by the UK to 'killer acquisitions' in the context of two-sided markets? By Sarah Gallagher Megan Yeates On 7 April 2020, US District Judge Stark decided not to prohibit the proposed acquisition by Sabre (one of the leading global...
Jul 13, 2020 COVID-19 and M&A: Merger control during the pandemic By Meredith Mommers COVID-19 has disrupted global economies and thrown businesses into an unfamiliar and unstable environment. The economic effects of the...
Jul 09, 2020 A (post) COVID-19 approach to sale and purchase agreements – part 4 of 4 By Jochen Ellrott With negotiation power tilting towards buyers, the catalogue of deal protection provisions that a buyer is able to assert may expand...
Jul 08, 2020 UK Competition Appeal Tribunal confirms the high bar for successful challenges of CMA merger decisions By Caroline Chew Wenjie Shen On 21 April 2020, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) unanimously dismissed Ecolab’s appeal of the Competition and Markets...
Jul 08, 2020 The UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 – Pension Protection Fund back in the driving seat By Dawn Heath Samuel Taylor We reported in our previous blog published on 26 June 2020 that the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the Act) granted...
Jul 06, 2020 A (post) COVID-19 approach to sale and purchase agreements – part 3 of 4 By Jochen Ellrott With significant developments on the regulatory front suggesting that long-stop periods will need to increase in the post-COVID-19 world,...
Jul 02, 2020 A (post) COVID-19 approach to sale and purchase agreements – part 2 of 4 By Jochen Ellrott As the world begins to emerge belatedly from the COVID-19 crisis, potential buyers are lining up to forge ahead with existing expansion...