12/10/2025 10:25:44 AM Inside Infrastructure: Managing Investor Risk and Response in a Crisis By Douglas Bryden Chris Bellringer Janais Bartholomew Infrastructure sites often carry a degree of operational risk and, unfortunately, operational incidents, in particular health and safety...
12/9/2025 6:10:19 AM Asset intensive reinsurance in Japan – a structuring guide for Japanese cedants navigating J-ICS By David Schwintowski Executive summary Japan is moving to an economic value based solvency regime (J-ICS / ESR) aligned with the IAIS Insurance Capital...
12/5/2025 7:38:30 AM Vietnam’s evolving merger control regime: key trends from the VCC’s most recent report By Hoang Ha An Ngoc Nguyen Thang Phan Dieu Linh Ha Thanh Tien Bui Eric Johnson Ninette Dodoo George Chatham +5 more... Show less Introduction As Vietnam’s rapid development and economic growth continue to fuel M&A activity, domestic and foreign companies...
12/3/2025 6:01:32 PM Investing in the German Defence Sector – BMWE Releases Guidance on Drones and Loitering Munitions By Nicolas Sölter Michael Ramb Juliane Hilf Maximilian Lasson Lars Meyer Alexander Schwahn Uwe Salaschek Alex Schmidtke +5 more... Show less This week, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) released an official guidance paper (Merkblatt) on the...
12/2/2025 5:53:48 PM Autumn Budget 2025: new stamp duty reserve tax UK listing relief By Alison Dickie Samuel Withnall The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has delivered the Autumn Budget 2025. After much press speculation on what would be...
11/28/2025 1:13:03 PM Inside Infrastructure: Reflections on Freshfields’ Inside Infrastructure Forum with Alastair Campbell & Rory Stewart By Martha Davis Last week, we had the privilege of hosting an infrastructure policy roundtable at our offices in London, drawing together leaders across...
11/21/2025 2:42:30 PM Investing in the German Defence Sector – Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities By Nicolas Sölter Michael Ramb Juliane Hilf Maximilian Lasson Lars Meyer Alexander Schwahn Uwe Salaschek Alex Schmidtke +5 more... Show less In this new blog series, we explore key regulatory opportunities and challenges shaping investments in the German and European defence...
11/19/2025 11:13:49 AM Inside Infrastructure: Investment Tracks to the Future - Decarbonisation & Digitalisation By Fedor Teselkin Amanda Mapanda Jonathan Chen Leila Symonds +1 more... Show less The global rail sector is undergoing a profound transformation, marked by significant investment, innovation, and strategic realignment...
11/18/2025 9:14:43 AM Wirecard insolvency: Federal Court of Justice confirms subordination of shareholder damages claims to all creditor claims in landmark insolvency ruling By Lars Westpfahl Patrick Schroeder Sonja Vidal Susanne Hoerrmann Tom Dittmar Victor Aly +3 more... Show less In its much-anticipated judgment of 13 November 2025 the German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) held that in insolvency proceedings,...
11/17/2025 1:40:36 PM The Digital Gold Rush: Investment in Data Centres and Related Legal Issues for Investors By Raghib Masrur Saad Mian Rishiv Rathore Tom Lawless +1 more... Show less The generative AI boom is fuelling massive demand for more expansive and powerful new data centres. Bloomberg Intelligence has estimated...
11/13/2025 11:55:53 AM Inside Infrastructure: Spotlight on Spain's data centre assets By Miriam Pérez-Schafer Ignacio Borrego Miguel Ángel Calvo Pilar Aguilar Lara Garcia de Vinuesa +2 more... Show less Our previous blog post, Inside Infrastructure: The Push and Pull of Data Centres, explored the extraordinary momentum behind data centres...
11/11/2025 4:01:12 PM Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency – 2026 edition now out By Catherine Balmond Katharina Crinson Simran Khan We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2026 edition of Panoramic: Restructuring & Insolvency. Covering 39 jurisdictions, this...
11/10/2025 5:03:33 PM River Island and Poundland – a consolidated framework for the court’s exercise of cross class cram down discretion By Diallo Williams Katharina Crinson Ken Baird The UK retail sector faces ongoing challenges from shifts in consumer behaviour and persistent economic pressures. In this light, Part...
11/6/2025 2:31:40 PM Inside Infrastructure: Highlighting Hydrogen By Andreas Ruthemeyer James Chapman Kirsten Singleton The global energy transition stands at a critical juncture - ambitious decarbonisation targets have been set, and now the hurdles to...
11/4/2025 9:03:49 AM CEE Capital Markets at a Crossroads: Navigating Divergence and Innovation By Victoria Bazil Stephan Pachinger Peter Allen Doug Smith Benedikt Graf +2 more... Show less On 24 October 2025, Freshfields Vienna hosted its annual CEE Capital Markets Workshop. We welcomed a diverse audience of leading lawyers...
10/29/2025 3:24:43 PM Inside Infrastructure: What's New in the Netherlands? By Alvaro Pliego Selie Marius Weyers The Netherlands, a nation renowned for its innovation, strategic location, and progressive environmental policies, continues to be a...