As usual the Media and Entertainment team here at Fieldfisher attended the Cannes Film Festival.

With the increased use of automated buying systems, large amounts of online advertising are not even being seen by a consumer.

Rules and guidance on advertising gambling make it clear that such marketing communications must be socially responsible and must not be likely to appeal to...

The scope of the e-Privacy Regulation is very wide, and will broadly apply to any business that provides any form of online communication service, that utilises online tracking technologies...

As 2017 came to a close, clients and contacts in the industry joined us to wave goodbye to the old and look forward to 2018.

Ryanair's proposed acquisition of Aer Lingus was first announced on 5 October 2006.

There are usually three reasons why such failures occur:

There is often a 'practicality disconnect' between understanding the regulatory framework within which your business operates and what can be done to mitigate those risks in practice.

The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has published its Activity Plan 2017 and 2018 that describes the 10 priority areas where the OGA will direct its efforts...

The UK Energy Bill contains specific provisions which, when it is enacted, will enable the Secretary of State to give effect to various initiatives to address investments in the UK energy market.

Preventing regulatory authorities and potential claimants from accessing and relying on documents can help to snuff out investigations and legal proceedings before they get going.

In our November 2017 blog "CAP puts the brakes on broadband speed claims", we highlighted CAP's intention to publish new guidance in relation to residential broadband speed claims ...

On 11 January 2016, the UK government published a new HMRC policy paper in response to the European Commission's consultation on modernising VAT for cross-border e-commerce.

On 19 February 2014, the European Medicines Agency and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they had established a new "cluster" in the area of pharmacovigilance.

The EU Council has just released a revised draft of a proposed Regulation to amend EMIR – link here. Although there is no specific timetable for the adoption of this proposed Regulation ...

In 2021, the French drug agency determined that the stocks of hundreds of specific pharmaceutical products must be maintained by pharmaceutical companies at a level equivalent to 4 months of coverage...

The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is ushering in significant changes to the way financial firms and their suppliers must operate, and organisations have just over 12 months to become fully compliant.

Today, news broke that baby Arthur Morgan is the first to receive ground-breaking gene therapy treatment Zolgensma®, reimbursed by the NHS.

The UK Government's third annual report on the National Security and Investment Act 2021 outlines key data and insights on its scrutiny of business transactions from April 2023 to March 2024.