1/17/2025 11:25:07 AM Strategic financing in 2025: Key trends and predictions By Oliver Aikens Nina Heym Mathias Lehner Rosemary Lobley Francesca Loreto Ruth Musgrave Anthony Ong +4 more... Show less As 2025 begins, we expect to see activity in the global financing markets in the year ahead to be shaped by: macro-economic influences,...
12/5/2024 12:00:20 PM European and UK banks: growth and consolidation By Sundeep Kapila Nick Jones Bethan Rodden Laura Hibbert +1 more... Show less Financial sector commentators have long-awaited consolidation amongst the fragmented European and UK banking sector, potentially creating...
10/7/2024 9:54:11 AM Announcing the 2025 Edition of In-depth: Foreign Investment Regulation (formerly The Foreign Investment Regulation Review) By Alex Potter In our global economy, foreign investment regimes are an important element of safeguarding national security and national interests,...
7/29/2024 3:23:03 PM Data Centre Investments By Alexander Watt Pascal Cuche Nicola Franceschina José Armando Albarrán Felix Neuwirther Frédéric Elens Niko Schultz-Süchting Jan Matauschek +5 more... Show less In recent years, the global investment landscape for data centres has reached record-breaking levels, with the market being largely...
5/28/2024 8:47:57 AM Energy storage - what you need to know By Ulrich Scholz Vanessa Jakovich Andreas Ruthemeyer James Chapman Ana Lopez Daniel Schnabl Alvaro Pliego Selie Hendrik Wessling Marlin Jürgens Marie von Armansperg Alexander Monro Giorgio Candeloro +9 more... Show less Energy storage is an indispensable part of an energy system where generation and consumption are increasingly variable and security of...
5/13/2024 3:21:20 PM Unbundling – what you need to know By Ulrich Scholz Pascal Cuche Tanguy Bardet Alvaro Pliego Selie Louise Bragard Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Julian Siegmund Gregor Von Bonin +5 more... Show less Unbundling rules in the EU may substantially shape an M&A deal in the energy sector. At a glance: Unbundling rules in Europe In the...
5/3/2024 12:05:14 PM The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
5/2/2024 2:31:47 PM Carbon Capture, Use & Storage: what you need to know By Alon Gordon Vanessa Jakovich Kate Gough Philip Morgan James Chapman Sascha Arnold +3 more... Show less Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) is a key technology to help achieve global net zero goals,[1] particularly for hard to abate...
5/2/2024 10:48:17 AM Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes By Vanessa Jakovich Deborah Janssens Steffie De Backer Kieran Watkins +1 more... Show less Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes Global efforts to deal with climate change have accelerated in the 30 years since the 1994 United Nations...
5/2/2024 10:46:17 AM High Yield and Leveraged Finance in Europe By Haden Henderson Simone Bono Michael Josenhans Marvin Knapp Lindsay Hingston +2 more... Show less On 25 April, Freshfields hosted AFME’s European High Yield and Leveraged Finance Frankfurt Seminar in our Frankfurt office. Lead by...
5/2/2024 8:35:58 AM European Electricity Market Reform By Ulrich Scholz Pascal Cuche Hendrik Wessling Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Jean-Baptiste Santini +2 more... Show less Due to its economic characteristics - large-scale storage issues, very different cost structures between players, demand that is not very...
5/1/2024 4:04:35 PM New mobility – key issues to consider By Juliane Hilf Pascal Cuche Sascha Arnold Jonas Köster Guillemette Burgala Fedor Teselkin Sara Barin Mesut Korkmaz +5 more... Show less Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just...