8/18/2026 4:01:36 PM Italy: MLBOs without a change of control get the green light – tax losses and interest can survive the merger (Rulings No. 160/2026 and No. 162/2026) By Toni Marciante In two rulings No. 160/2026 and No. 162/2026, the Italian tax authority considered merger leveraged buy-outs (MLBOs) in which the...
8/12/2026 3:30:37 PM English Court Stays Hunkemöller LME Claim Pending New York Litigation By Katharina Crinson Emilio Salice Lindsay Hingston Summary On 6 August 2026, Mr Justice Leech in the English High Court granted a case management stay of the English claim brought by a...
8/4/2026 4:51:06 PM UK Supreme Court Confirms Unrecognised Foreign Judgments Can Found a Bankruptcy Petition By Richard Tett Katharina Crinson Jonathan Kelly Emilio Salice +1 more... Show less Summary On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court held unanimously in Drelle v Servis-Terminal LLC [2026] UKSC 29 that an unrecognised and...
7/21/2026 12:36:07 PM Inside Infrastructure: Competing for capital – what investors really need By Jessamy Gallagher Alastair Mordaunt Richard Thexton Kirsten Singleton Pascal Despard Susannah Prichard Iona Crawford +4 more... Show less Governments around the world face the same fundamental challenge: how to fund the infrastructure needed to support economic growth,...
7/15/2026 12:42:07 PM UK National Security and Investment Act: key trends in the latest data ahead of upcoming reforms and a new Prime Minister By Alastair Mordaunt Sarah Jensen 2025/26 Annual Report shows rising volumes of deals under review across a broad spectrum of sectors and acquirers, with a shift in focus...
7/15/2026 12:16:07 PM Dematerialisation Update: Publication of the DEMAT Report By Rós Ní Dhubháin Ziyad Nassif The Dematerialisation Market Action Taskforce (DEMAT) published its long-awaited report on 14 July 2026, timed to coincide with the...
7/14/2026 2:21:37 PM Getting the deal through in an era of policy-driven enforcement By Laurent Bougard Christine Laciak Rory Jones Uwe Salaschek +1 more... Show less In a recent post, we shared details of the 2027 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control, now called Panoramic: Merger...
7/14/2026 10:35:36 AM Minority Selecta noteholders can appeal Dutch share pledge enforcement By Huub Boekhorst Marjolein Bakker In brief In its decision of 30 June 2026, the Netherlands Commercial Court of Appeal (NCCA) ruled that certain first-lien noteholders can...
7/9/2026 11:57:06 AM Private Credit: A new opportunity in Austria By Florian Klimscha Maximilian Hohenauer Eva Schneider Private Credit: A new opportunity in Austria Private Credit has been eyeing Austrian borrowers and situations for a while, but so far...
7/6/2026 10:45:45 AM Re NFE Global Holdings Limited: English Court Sanctions US$9.6 Billion Restructuring Plan for New Fortress Energy Group By Rachel Seeley Katharina Crinson Richard Tett In Re NFE Global Holdings Limited [2026] EWHC 1620 (Ch) (Cawson J, sanction judgment) and [2026] EWHC 1223 (Ch) (Hildyard J, convening...
7/6/2026 9:01:02 AM Pulling in different directions: Germany's 2026 real estate reforms By Niko Schultz-Süchting Julia Haas Timo Elsner Gerrit Beckhaus Jan Matauschek Marcus Emmer Maximilian Rottmann +4 more... Show less Germany's new coalition government has spent its first months in office reshaping the legal framework for real estate. The picture is...
7/2/2026 3:15:06 PM The 2027 Edition of Panoramic Merger Control Is Now Available By Thomas Janssens The latest edition of Panoramic Merger Control is now available. This renowned international guide sets out the essentials of merger...
7/2/2026 12:48:36 PM Inside Infrastructure: Infrastructure fundraising - new channels, new pathways to navigate By Nick Kagan Mary Lavelle Sophie Lacaille Infrastructure fundraising is not only recovering; it is changing shape. Capital formation is moving in two directions at once: on the...
7/1/2026 8:42:07 AM Reforming UK taxation of distributions code By Emily Szasz Tom Gardner HMRC have launched a consultation on a set of wide-ranging proposals to reform the taxation of distributions and repayments of capital...
6/26/2026 3:39:37 PM Freshfields' response to the European Commission’s consultation on the new draft EU Merger Guidelines By Thomas Janssens Paul van den Berg Andreas von Bonin Björn Sijtsma Karen Slaney Toyosi Taiwo +3 more... Show less The European Commission’s long-awaited draft revision of the EU Merger Guidelines marks a defining moment for merger control in Europe....
6/22/2026 11:12:07 AM All change for market abuse? EU reforms to issuer disclosures impact dual EU-UK compliance arrangements By Thomas Clark Elisabeth Overland Philip Denninger Jennifer McCarthy +1 more... Show less Since Brexit, UK and EU market abuse regimes have remained broadly aligned. Companies with securities admitted to trading in both the UK...