Apr 30, 2021 The UK’s new “landmark law” expanding its national security screening powers receives Royal Assent By Michele Davis Sarah Jensen Iona Crawford On 29 April 2021, the principal legislation establishing the UK’s new national security regime – the National Security and Investment Act...
Apr 30, 2021 Freshfields' 'Hot topics' series – liability management By Lindsay Hingston Mark Liscio Scott Talmadge Lars Westpfahl Andrew Hagen Edward Lewis +3 more... Show less In the US distressed market, liability management has emerged as an effective and widely accepted tool to increase liquidity, restructure...
Apr 29, 2021 Investing in fintechs – navigating heightened merger control scrutiny By Rikki Haria Maija Hall Thomas Reyntjens Paul Seppi +1 more... Show less 'The hostility we encountered from the beginning of the process was really quite shocking,' the CEO of Seedrs told The Times after his...
Apr 29, 2021 Essential Foreign Investment: Episode 1 – CFIUS, China and Europe’s new screening regime By Alastair Mordaunt Ermelinda Spinelli Colin Costello Rocío De Troya +1 more... Show less Economic conditions remain uncertain with the pandemic not yet fully under control, and geopolitical tensions, particularly between the...
Apr 28, 2021 Focus on tech: revised German regulation further extends the control of foreign direct investments in the technology sector and beyond By Alexander Sekunde Frank Röhling Ilka Oberländer Jonas von Kalben +1 more... Show less Germany – together with Italy and France – has been at the forefront of the wider European trend to intensify the screening of the...
Apr 21, 2021 UK, German and Australian competition authorities unite to back strong and effective merger control By Sascha Schubert Sarah Jensen Thomas McGrath Ilka Oberländer +1 more... Show less The UK, German and Australian competition authorities have issued a joint statement highlighting their common understanding of the need...
Apr 21, 2021 European Commission publishes policy paper – is the EU merger control framework still fit for purpose? By Thomas Reyntjens Laurent Bougard Amaryllis Müller Sascha Schubert +1 more... Show less In a recently published policy paper, the European Commission (EC) assessed whether its jurisdictional merger control thresholds leave an...
Apr 14, 2021 OTC derivatives and ESG finance – what role can they play? By Richard Hart Matthew Dodwell According to Bloomberg, in 2020, the global market for sustainable debt grew to $732bn, an increase of 29 per cent on 2019. A significant...
Apr 08, 2021 Italian merger control law: ‘wind of change’? By Gian Luca Zampa Alessandro Di Giò Luca Feltrin Introduction With a newly established Italian government, competition reforms are gaining prominence. At the request of Prime Minister...
Apr 08, 2021 COVID-19 and Commercial Rents - what will happen after 30 June? The UK Government calls for evidence By Victoria Hills Roger Schofield Alexander Watt The UK Government this week launched a call for evidence from all participants in the commercial property industry, as the measures it...
Apr 06, 2021 Loyalty shares in Spain: the fading of the 'one share, one vote' principle By Miriam Pérez-Schafer Inigo Rios Today the Spanish Official Bulletin has published Law 5/2021, of 12 April, amending the Spanish Companies Act and other financial...
Apr 01, 2021 Are SPACs a viable option for the unbundling of Japan Inc? By Jochen Ellrott Sebastian Fain SPACs – The final frontier. To explore strange new worlds, to boldly go where no one has gone before. We may have taken a few liberties...