5/14/2026 3:09:36 PM King’s Speech 2026 – key announcements for business By Lloyd Rees The King’s Speech and the State Opening of the UK Parliament took place yesterday with the legislative priorities of the Labour...
5/14/2026 8:33:07 AM Inside Infrastructure: Beyond the Building: The New Frontier of Data Centre Finance By Stuart Rowson Ally McKechnie Pascal Despard Matt Bastion +1 more... Show less Data centres remain one of the most dynamic and structurally inventive segments of the infrastructure financing market. Capital is...
5/6/2026 2:03:37 PM High Court sanctions Waldorf’s (second) highly contested restructuring plan By Caroline Platt Rachel Seeley Emma Gateaud Katharina Crinson +1 more... Show less Summary On 5 May 2026, Mr Justice Michael Green sanctioned the restructuring plan proposed by UK oil and gas company Waldorf Production...
5/5/2026 8:18:37 AM Where national interest ends: the Commission's new guidance on Member States' powers in EU-dimension mergers By Uwe Salaschek Matthias Wahls Apart from the new "theories of benefit" (covered here) and novel theories of harm such as entrenchment (covered here), the European...
5/1/2026 9:57:37 AM A sharper arsenal: the Commission’s new theories of harm and what they mean for your deals By James Aitken Thomas Janssens Merit Olthoff Paul van den Berg Andreas von Bonin +2 more... Show less The European Commission (the Commission) published its new draft EU merger guidelines (the Guidelines) on 30 April 2026. In our blog...
4/30/2026 3:27:37 PM Geopolitics and efficiencies brought to the fore: a new dawn for merger control in Europe By James Aitken Thomas Janssens Andreas von Bonin Paul van den Berg +1 more... Show less Today, the European Commission (Commission) has published its long-awaited draft of the revised EU merger guidelines (the Guidelines)....
4/30/2026 2:48:09 PM Inside Infrastructure: Bridging the infrastructure funding gap By Stuart Rowson Jenny McIvor Martin McElwee Vanessa Jakovich Lloyd Rees Charlotte Aspin Susannah Prichard Emily Strand Jevan Light Katy Foxall +7 more... Show less Freshfields and TheCityUK publish paper on attracting private capital to deliver the UK infrastructure strategy and exporting innovative...
4/22/2026 12:54:07 PM Liability management exercises – using disclosure as a tool By Neil Golding Emilio Salice Sunil Singh Madlyn Primoff Henry Hutten Michael Broeders Mijke Sinninghe Damsté +4 more... Show less Liability management exercises, sometimes dubbed ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’, are now a defining feature of the global restructuring...
4/17/2026 4:01:36 PM EU Inc.: the insolvency provisions of the Commission's draft 28th regime proposal By Michael Broeders Katharina Crinson Charlotte Ausema Silvia Angos Susanne Hoerrmann Simran Khan +3 more... Show less On 18 March 2026, the European Commission presented its proposal for EU Inc., an optional, digital-by-default European corporate...
4/17/2026 12:57:07 PM Updating the Playbook: The EU’s Revised TTBER and What It Means for Technology Licensing By Dominic Divivier Theresa Ehlen Corin Gittinger Julian Siegmund Karen Slaney +2 more... Show less The European Commission (Commission)’s adoption of the revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and accompanying...
4/17/2026 9:33:10 AM Inside Infrastructure: Scrutinising Stake Sales By Jessamy Gallagher Richard Thexton Martha Davis Kirsten Singleton +1 more... Show less The prevalence of fragmented ownership in infrastructure - an inevitable consequence of the operator-investor relationships in energy...
4/7/2026 9:20:59 AM Vietnam's infrastructure: Six forces shaping investment in 2026–2030 and opportunities for foreign investors By Ngoc Nguyen Thanh Tien Bui Eric Johnson Philip Morgan Tomoko Nakajima Gordon Palmquist +3 more... Show less Vietnam now sits at the intersection of two very different realities. On one hand, the country has set out an ambitious development...
4/1/2026 9:15:47 AM UK Corporate Civil Enforcement: A Broadened Enforcement Remit and New Enforcement Tools By Katharina Crinson Rachel Seeley Nicholas Cooper Craig Montgomery +1 more... Show less Summary The UK Insolvency Service published a consultation on 25 March 2026 (closing 17 June 2026) proposing the most comprehensive...
4/1/2026 7:31:00 AM EU Insolvency Law: Harmonisation Directive enters into force By Susanne Hoerrmann Charlotte Ausema Silvia Angos Antoine Rueda Simran Khan Katharina Crinson Oliver Hutton +4 more... Show less Introduction On 1 April 2026, the long-awaited Directive harmonising certain aspects of insolvency law (the Directive) entered into...
3/26/2026 11:12:31 AM Can the Industrial Accelerator Act strengthen strategic industries without stifling investment? A look at the IAA’s FDI provisions By Juliane Hilf Uwe Salaschek Matthias Wahls Introduction and background On 4 March 2026, the European Commission published its legislative proposal for an Industrial Accelerator...
3/19/2026 11:12:22 AM Cross-Border Shareholder Loans: European Court of Justice Clarifies Equitable Subordination in German Insolvency Proceedings By Marvin Knapp Lars Westpfahl Jan-Philip Wilde Susanne Hoerrmann +1 more... Show less Shareholder loans are a common financing tool for businesses, but their treatment in insolvency proceedings, particularly across borders,...