Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
On 18 July 2025, the European Commission (EC) published the draft guidelines on the implementation of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR Guidelines)....more
The Italian government has recently published its 2024 Annual Report on Foreign Direct Investment (the Report), providing an overview of the exercise of its special powers, commonly referred to as “Golden Power,” in sectors...more
- What is new: Merger control is becoming increasingly more complex as policy and geopolitical priorities shift across the globe. - Why it matters: These developments increase the unpredictability of multijurisdictional...more
Tell me about key moments or mentors that have most influenced your legal career and shaped your current intellectual property (IP) practice?...more
The European Union’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) has now been in force for over a year, introducing a new layer of regulatory oversight for companies engaging in M&A transactions within the EU. Designed to address...more
Just two years into the implementation of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), financial institutions are already experiencing its significant impact. The Regulation’s broad scope, extensive data collection requirements...more
Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more
On 2 July 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) clarified that simply "informing" the authorities of a proposed concentration isn’t enough to kick off the 15-working-days time limit under which a...more
Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more
Two years ago, the FSR arrived as the new kid on the block in Brussels. Today, it is one of the EU's sharpest enforcement tools, and one that is only gaining prominence as geopolitical tensions reshape global investment and...more
Key Points - - The war in Ukraine has prompted a historic surge in European defense spending. - Governments in the EU and U.K. are stressing the need for innovation. They are increasingly turning to investment in small...more
When analyzing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the European Union and related pitfalls that may arise, strategic and institutional investors should remember that, while the EU legal framework is harmonized in several...more
On May 22, 2025, the Hellenic Parliament passed long-expected legislation to establish Greece’s first national mechanism for the screening of foreign direct investments (FDI) on grounds of national security and public order....more
A key objective outlined in Commissioner Ribera’s mission letter is the modernization of EU competition policy, including the framework employed by the European Commission (EC) to assess the competitive impact of mergers. In...more
Our Antitrust Team examines the European Commission’s first conditional merger clearance under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) and how it provides key insights into how foreign financial contributions impact...more
JANUARY – MARCH 2025: KEY THEMES AND TAKEAWAYS - UNITED STATES - FTC Loses Vertical Challenge to Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm On July 2, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit in federal court seeking to block...more
China experienced positive economic growth last year despite significant headwinds such as trade protectionism and weakening consumer demand. The country’s GDP grew by 5 percent over the course of the year, with a booming...more
European competitiveness took center stage at the Digital Transformation & Law Summit in Düsseldorf, where Hogan Lovells and legal tech company ELTEMATE brought together thought leaders from business, technology, and law to...more
COMPETITION - Cartel in the European Government Bonds sector: the General Court largely confirms the decision of the Commission (See CPR Nº 39/2025 - Judgments of the General Court in Cases T-441/21, T-449/21, T-453/21,...more
The value of European banking M&A hits its highest point in a decade as lenders hunt for growth across the continent - A potential ramping-up in European banking M&A has become a hot topic as a lower net interest margin...more
A visual breakdown of the geographical trends in antitrust enforcement fines around the world. Europe - At the country level, antitrust enforcement fines in Europe were USD2.3 billion, a significant increase from 2023. ...more
The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation entered into force on 12 July 2023, and as of 12 October 2023, companies engaging in large transactions and bidding for large public procurement contracts in the European Union, are...more
The transaction notification regime under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is now over a year old. To date, intervention levels are low. But assessing whether a filing is required, and gathering the extensive...more
COMPETITION A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to ensure that its platform is interoperable with an app of another undertaking, which thereby becomes more attractive, can be abusive (See CPR Nº 19/2025 -...more
Foreign investment (FDI) screening regimes continued to present challenges for dealmakers. We saw tough intervention in key jurisdictions. New and expanding rules added to regulatory burden. Overall, most deals are cleared...more