Over recent years, there has been a rise within the food and drink industry in healthy alternatives, as consumers become more conscious of their diet, and more wary of what goes in to their food and drink.

Transparency International and Revenue Watch have released a report, Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, that is indicative of the pressure being placed on extractive sector companies to report on their payments to host governments and the value-sharing stipulations in their contracts.

An EEIG enables legal entities from different EU countries to associate and operate together across national borders.

On 1 January 2026, the Berne Financial Services Agreement (BFSA) entered into force. The BFSA is a bilateral treaty between Switzerland and the UK, designed to facilitate cross-border wholesale financial services...

With Europe remaining a key market, Guernsey Finance's Fiona Le Poidevin explains how Guernsey is evolving its regime to fit with the AIFMD as well as the attractiveness of its third country position.

We will be following up our post last week regarding the latest US-EU Safe Harbor decision out of Europe with further analysis both from the Mintz Privacy team and our international network of privacy specialists.

Advances in digital wired and wireless technology are rapidly expanding both the types of media and the devices that advertising, marketing and brand professionals can use to reach consumers.

2020 and 2021 were great years for online commerce businesses based in China. Since China managed to tackle the pandemic swiftly a lot of online businesses were ready to start shipping to...

Guernsey is the global open-ended funds centre of today and tomorrow, says Fiona Le Poidevin, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance.

With capital so portable in today's world, investment dollars continually seek to find homes where it makes most economic sense acknowledge market experts.

The European Commission last week published a notice to stakeholders on the UK's (and consequently Gibraltar's) withdrawal from the EU and EU rules in the field of insurance and reinsurance.

Cross-border legal and commercial activity between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the European Union has entered a new era.

On June 6, 2018 the European Commission (Commission) adopted a delegated regulation updating the EU's blocking statute, Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96 (the Regulation).

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal European, US and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to European corporates.

The Malta Financial Services Authority is pleased to present this report of its activities in 2013.

Here we explain the background to the 2014 Directive, as well as summarise some of the main amendments to the 2009 Directive and potential impacts for industry.

In a tightly-contested referendum on June 23, 2016, a narrow majority of the United Kingdom ("UK") electorate voted for the UK to leave the European Union ("EU")

On December 27, 2010, Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. ("Alcatel-Lucent"), a French telecommunications equipment and services provider, settled charges with the US government under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA").

While the swirl of day-by-day posturing, partisan commentary, and reluctance of the UK and EU authorities to reveal their negotiating hands make it challenging to discern probable routes forward...

In many ways, 2021 has been one of the most significant years of change in the Irish banking sector since the banking crisis in 2008.