6/27/2025 10:21:20 AM Defence Tech M&A – Key Legal Insights in a High Stakes Market By Tijn Mandema Saloua Ouchan Hanneke Rothbarth This blog provides a high-level overview of legal due diligence considerations for investors considering investing in the defence...
6/26/2025 9:41:18 AM Armed for opportunity: navigating investment and compliance in the Dutch defence sector By Paul van den Berg Felix Roscam Abbing Max Immerzeel Tess Heystee +1 more... Show less While public defence spending is set to rise significantly, increased private sector involvement is also being encouraged. In this blog,...
6/24/2025 10:32:38 AM Policy progress for the EU securitisation market? What you need to know about the latest regulatory proposals By Andrew Heathcote Mandeep Lotay Jessica Wrigley On 17 June 2025, the European Commission published proposals to amend the EU regulatory framework for securitisation (the proposals). The...
3/20/2025 12:40:29 PM Netherlands next in line to introduce a “call-in” option for competition regulator? By Winfred Knibbeler Paul van den Berg Felix Roscam Abbing On Tuesday 18 March, a draft legislative Act was published and opened up for public consultation (see here). Dutch Parliament has...
7/9/2024 10:35:35 AM The Future is Suite: The “Hotelisation” of Real Estate By William Kellett Eleanor Turner Lydia Kent-Smith As keen observers of the real estate market, a key theme that we have seen emerging in the post-pandemic landscape is the “hotelisation”...
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...
11/23/2023 10:23:59 AM Capital Solutions for Real Estate By Tom Wallis Roger Schofield Real Estate sponsors looking to refinance or exit their investments are doing so in a significantly changed environment from when their...
10/24/2023 11:39:20 AM The changing demand for real estate – embracing demographic shifts By Victoria Hills Lydia Kent-Smith Our global population is ageing. Fertility rates are declining. Society is adapting to new ways of living and working. Changing...
9/28/2023 11:00:07 AM New tax ruling brings positive news for the taxation of carried interest in Spain By Javier Sánchez Ballesteros Since our previous post Spanish taxation of carried interest: what’s new for the private equity sector?, the Spanish General Tax...
9/25/2023 9:48:59 AM Times they are a-changin’ – how cities are evolving and the role of the hospitality industry By Victoria Hills Lydia Kent-Smith We are living through an extraordinary period. With significant geopolitical, social and climate changes. As actors in the real estate...
8/21/2023 11:41:33 AM Private M&A: Equity consideration transactions - Enhanced due diligence, more extensive warranties and alternative risk allocation By Gaia Pattyn The past eighteen months have seen a steady increase in sellers accepting consideration other than cash in private M&A transactions....
7/20/2023 10:08:08 AM What you need to know now about the impact of the OECD's global minimum tax on M&A transactions By Peter Clements Bob van Kasteren Katharina Kubik Joe Soltis Alison Dickie +2 more... Show less Following international agreement on the key components of the OECD’s Pillar 2 proposal to introduce a global minimum tax, attention has...