Multi-national companies need to adapt to local regulations, but also maintain global standards. This is as important for corporate management and culture as for products and services

The European Commission announced on 30 April 2024 that EU consumer authorities (the CPC Authorities), coordinated by the Commission, have sent letters to 20 airlines identifying several...

To date, foreign investment regimes have focussed exclusively on inbound investments by foreign companies into a country's respective domestic businesses.

A German publisher has failed in its first attempt to stop Google scanning its books and publishing excerpts from them on the internet.

The Federal Patent Court decided in a recently published decision that the designation “Der kleine Eisbär” (“The little Polar Bear”) is registrable as a word mark for “recorded data carriers, exposed films and printed matters”. Der kleine Eisbär is a cartoon character which is very popular, especially among children, in Germany.

In the APAC region, a key trend has been legal change driven by the changing demographics of ageing populations, with many governments across the region passing or proposing laws that address retirement ages...

Welcome to the second 2017 edition of our bi-monthly Asia Pacific Competition Law Bulletin.

We hope you are well and we are happy to share with you our latest newsletter which aims to capture the major legal developments in various Asia Pacific jurisdictions between January and June 2021.

In a recent decision, the Court of Appeal have allowed Levicom’s appeal of the first instance judgment in their £37 million loss of chance claim against Linklaters.

The final text will need to be endorsed by the European Parliament and then by the Council of the EU.

The enhancements are part of Sandbox Plus, which takes effect on 1 January 2022.

Cross-border trade finance is largely paper-based and vulnerable to fraud, due to the complex flow of transactions and the multiple number of parties involved.

The FCA has now adopted in full the European Securities and Markets Authority's guidelines issued under the Market Abuse Regulation and made changes to its Disclosure Guidance in DTR 2 to bring it in line with ESMA's guidelines.

BEIS expects the regulations to come into force on 6 April 2017.