Sustainability Omnibus Enters Into Force On March 18, 2026—update On Dutch Implementation

对于投资公司而言，外包基金行政管理不仅能显著提高运营效率并节约成本...

Hans Urlus, Maquina Lamé and Rabia Simsek authored this Practice Note that explains the requirements for Dutch entities and trusts to register and maintain information on their Ultimate Beneficial Owners...

Strategic buyers dominated Dutch public M&A in 2025, but ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and transformative forces like AI and the energy transition are reshaping the dealmaking landscape. Will strategic M&A continue to take center stage in 2026, or will private equity sponsors return with selective activity where they can bring genuine added value to target businesses?

Given the scrutiny on executive compensation in recent years, it is critical to make sure that your company's executive pay reflects its performance and aligns with the market.

If the signing and closing of a transaction does not take place on the same day, the seller runs a debtor risk on the buyer. This risk is even greater if the buyer is a newly established acquisition...

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When a business unit no longer aligns with corporate strategy or another party can extract greater value from it, a carve-out presents a strategic solution. However, separating an integrated division from its parent organization involves far more complexity than a standard acquisition, requiring careful disentanglement of staff, systems, contracts, and support services. What critical pitfalls must both sellers and buyers navigate to ensure a successful carve-out transaction?

Start-ups need funding for the development of their service or product and their ‘go to market'. Loans with banks and other commercial lenders are often not feasible at the early stage.

Following our earlier newsflash on the European Commission indicating that it might withdraw the Green Claims Directive, recent developments show that the proposal is still formally in place.

Dutch listed companies commonly deploy protective foundations as a defensive mechanism against hostile takeovers, granting independent boards the power to rapidly dilute bidder voting control through preference share issuance. This governance tool has gained widespread adoption among Dutch corporations and increasingly appears in international structures, offering companies crucial time to evaluate alternatives while maintaining strategic autonomy.

Japan has enacted sweeping amendments to its Act on the Protection of Personal Information, introducing an administrative surcharge regime with monetary penalties for data protection violations, new protections for children under 16 and biometric data, and expanded exceptions for data utilization in statistical analysis and AI development. The reforms, which take effect in stages through 2028, fundamentally reshape Japan's privacy enforcement landscape by granting the Personal Information Protection Commiss

The European Union's new Regulation on packaging and packaging waste has fundamentally transformed compliance requirements for companies placing packaged goods on the EU market, replacing decades-old directive-based frameworks with directly applicable product-law rules. While promising regulatory harmonization across member states, the reality presents a complex dual-compliance landscape where businesses must navigate both EU-wide packaging standards and diverging national implementation approaches.

The SEC has issued a groundbreaking Innovation Exemption allowing tokenized securities venues to facilitate trading of tokenized NMS stocks using automated market makers and liquidity pools. This temporary five-year exemption from exchange and dealer registration requirements establishes conditions for permissioned blockchain-based trading while granting public companies a 30-day window to object to third-party tokenization of their securities.

A Delaware Court of Chancery decision examines whether an acquiror can terminate a $2.35 billion merger agreement when antitrust approval is delayed beyond the outside date. The case centers on whether the acquiror's abandonment of discussions with a competitor—which triggered an FTC investigation—constitutes "willful conduct" that prevents the buyer from walking away from the deal.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a circular that sets forth comprehensive guidelines and expectations for licensed corporations (LCs) regarding the responsible use...

The Delaware Court of Chancery imposed significant sanctions in a merger litigation case after finding that the company's controlling stockholder and senior officers recklessly destroyed Signal messages following legal hold notices. The court shifted the burden of proof by presuming certain facts favorable to plaintiffs, requiring defendants to rebut these presumptions with clear and convincing evidence rather than a preponderance standard.

The European Commission's Industrial Accelerator Act proposes to reshape battery supply chains by conditioning access to EU public procurement and support schemes on strict origin requirements. As China controls over 80% of global battery manufacturing capacity, the legislation introduces escalating component-count thresholds that could fundamentally alter market access, financing structures, and supplier eligibility across the battery value chain.

Spain's draft Royal Decree introduces stringent energy sustainability, environmental, resilience and digital sovereignty requirements for data centers, including renewable additionality, hourly correlation, and efficiency standards. The regulation applies to all access and connection permits obtained after entry into force, with specific compliance deadlines for projects in progress and those with granted permits not yet connected to the grid.

HM Treasury has published a consultation proposing a significant overhaul of the UK's payment services and electronic money regulatory framework, aiming to create a more agile regime that accommodates tokenised payments, open banking innovations, and agentic AI while maintaining consumer protections and addressing financial crime risks.

California has enacted a comprehensive package of four bills that fundamentally reshape online safety protections for minors, targeting addictive design features, data privacy practices, age verification systems, and platform liability. These new laws establish strict requirements for social media companies, including mandatory stripped-down interfaces for users under 16, enhanced privacy defaults, and potential damages up to $1 million for negligent harm to children. The legislation represents one of the m