On February 14, 2019, the European Commission, European Parliament, and Council of the European Union reached agreement on new rules designed to ensure a fair ...

On December 5, 2018, the French Competition Authority (FCA) fined six large household appliance manufacturers a total of €189 million

The findings from the recent Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decision Mobiles Kommunikationssystem have established a new framework ...

With Germany finally implementing the Trade Secrets Directive into their national law, know-how theft cases are becoming more frequent.

In Thumbnails III, the German Federal Supreme Court (‘BGH') held that the depiction of so-called thumbnails of pictures available from the internet does not constitute an act of copyright infringement, unless the search engine operator had knowledge of the fact that the copyrighted material had been illegally uploaded.

In anticipation of the implementation of the Trade Secrets Directive, the topic of know-how protection has been widely discussed.

Ahead of a recent matchmaking event created with the aim of supporting the acceleration and upscale of COVID-19 vaccine production, the European Commission stipulated certain safeguards in...

The UK competition regulator, the CMA, will be conducting in-depth investigations of investment consultancy and fiduciary management services after the FCA initiated an investigation.

SAG-AFTRA members voted by an overwhelming 96% to approve the 2013 Commercials Contracts.

On 30 November, an English court approved the first Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA).

It is common for our clients to require a short environmental indemnity in a property deal usually when the transaction is well advanced (and the due diligence is in) and often once the timetable is really compressed

The findings from a recent UK Patents Court judgment have clarified the extent of litigation sanctions imposed when there is a failure to record a patent transaction at the Patent Office.

We are conducting a short anonymous survey to discover whether the shipping industry is embracing the digital age.

The European Commission recently published its long-awaited final report on its E-commerce Sector Inquiry launched two years ago.

The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), consisting of representatives from each of the member states data protection authorities, is expected to meet on 25 July 2016 to give its view on the Privacy Shield framework.

The European Union has made further additions to the list of sanctioned parties under the regime put in place in response to the Russian Federation’s actions in the Crimea.

In the recent judgment of Arnold v Britton the Supreme Court of England & Wales provided important clarification of the correct approach to adopt when construing commercial contracts

In this article, the author Anker Sorensen, a senior partner of the Financial Industry Group of Reed Smith Paris, practising predominantly in the area of Corporate and Restructuring, sets out various recent labor related reforms applicable in France in 2014 and discusses recent court decisions, ..

In May 2015 the European Commission (EC) announced its strategy for a European ‘digital single market' (DSM) that mirrors the possibilities of the physical single market.

As part of Reed Smith's webinar series on crisis management, on Wednesday 6 November 2019, partners Tom Webley, Philip Thomas and John M. McIntyre delivered a webinar to clients on data breaches, cyber attacks, ...