10/6/2026 10:30:37 AM Japan enters a new era of foreign investment screening: What the 2026 FEFTA reforms mean for foreign investors By Kaori Yamada Hitoshi Nakajima Japan’s foreign investment screening regime is entering a new phase. The Diet approved the bill amending the Foreign Exchange and Foreign...
10/2/2026 8:12:38 AM Germany's "Invest in Germany Summit": A New Pitch for International Capital By Gregor von Bonin Heiner Braun Andreas Ruthemeyer Carsten Bork Alex Schmidtke +2 more... Show less On 19 and 20 October 2026, the German government will host its first "Invest in Germany Summit" in Berlin. Chancellor Friedrich Merz and...
9/30/2026 1:48:37 PM “Retroactive” dividend entitlement under authorised capital: Can the permitted become prohibited? By Christoph H. Seibt Christopher Dibbern Danwerth The Higher Regional Court of Munich has refused to register a capital increase from authorised capital with a simplified exclusion of...
9/28/2026 11:32:07 AM EU Merger Guidelines review: new economic studies inform Commission's approach to dynamic effects By Ilka Oberländer Jenny Leahy Janet Lang Dominic Divivier Niklas Andree +2 more... Show less The European Commission has recently published two economic studies on how mergers may impact innovation and future competition. These...
9/25/2026 1:42:37 PM EXPO REAL 2026: our take on German real estate By Jan Matauschek Niko Schultz-Süchting Gerrit Beckhaus Julia Haas Timo Elsner Marcus Emmer +3 more... Show less As the property industry prepares to meet in Munich for EXPO REAL, Germany’s real estate market presents a mixed picture. Developers...
9/24/2026 12:48:07 PM Inside Infrastructure: Satellites, Infrastructure's newest frontier By Rhys Evans Jessamy Gallagher Tara Gazzard Alexandra Yang +1 more... Show less Inside Infrastructure is back. We're launching the next series with a look at a sector that is moving increasingly into the mainstream...
9/23/2026 2:01:37 PM ACM call-in power: what parties negotiating Dutch deals need to know By Paul van den Berg Felix Roscam Abbing Rosa Warning Recently, the Dutch Parliament introduced a draft legislative act (the Act) that would grant the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and...
9/7/2026 9:10:03 AM Are AI occupiers about to rewrite the UK institutional office lease? By Joey Patchitt Lydia Kent-Smith AI is now the single biggest source of new demand in the London office market, and it is still only in its infancy. Yet it arrives...
9/4/2026 4:31:07 PM The CMA’s revised merger assessment guidelines: a more workable route for efficiencies? By James Aitken Colin Raftery The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published revised Merger Assessment Guidelines (MAGs). The main change is the...
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...