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European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - August 2025

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 8/4/2025

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more

The UK's carbon border adjustment mechanism continues to take shape

A&O Shearman on 5/8/2025

Ahead of the commencement of the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), key building blocks for its regulatory framework are moving into place. Following consultations in 2023 and 2024, draft legislation and a policy...more

EU and UK Sanctions Updates to Mark the Three-Year Anniversary of the Invasion of Ukraine

Pillsbury - Global Trade & Sanctions Law on 3/11/2025

On February 24, 2025, the EU adopted its 16th package of sanctions against Russia, Belarus and non-government-controlled areas of Ukraine, symbolically marking the third anniversary of the start of Russia’s invasion of...more

Europe Moves Toward Further Regulation of Forced Labour in Supply Chains

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/12/2024

A number of jurisdictions globally are enhancing their supply chain-related regulations. The European Union’s latest regulation in this respect, the EU Forced Labour Regulation (FLR), was adopted on 19 November 2024. The FLR...more

Ethical Supply Chains: Responding to World Uyghur Congress v NCA

Ankura on 10/21/2024

In this article, we examine the potential impact on organisations managing global supply chains of the recent Court of Appeal judgement in the case against the National Crime Agency (NCA) brought by the World Uyghur Congress...more

Cadwalader Climate - July 2024 #4

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 7/31/2024

In this week’s edition we discuss the implications of a decision against the National Crime Agency, which the UK’s Court of Appeal held had misinterpreted the law when it refused to investigate whether imported cotton was...more

Significant UK Court of Appeal Decision Confirms the Applicability of the UK’s Proceeds of Crime Legislation to Illegality in...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/8/2024

The UK Court of Appeal recently held that the National Crime Agency’s decision not to investigate whether cotton goods manufactured in China and imported to the UK were the product of forced labour was unlawful — a decision...more

Quarterly Sanctions Update | Q1 2024

McDermott Will & Schulte on 4/8/2024

The European Union and the United Kingdom continue to tighten sanctions against Russia, particularly in the wake of the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sudden death of Russian opposition leader...more

Seven Myths About the US Law Banning Imports Made With Forced Labor | Insights

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/13/2024

Key Points - - In light of the vigorous enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, boards in their oversight role should ensure that their companies conduct heightened diligence on their supply chains, including...more

EU’s 11th package of sanctions on Russia targets third-country evasion, expands existing restrictions and extends derogations

White & Case LLP on 7/12/2023

The EU adopted its eleventh sanctions package against Russia on 23 June, 2023. A new anti-circumvention framework enables the EU to tackle sanctions evasion through third countries. The EU extends the scope of existing...more

UK Government Sued Over Inadequate Assessment of Environmental Impacts of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 6/27/2023

In May 2023, Global Feedback, an environmental advocacy group based in the UK and the Netherlands, announced that it had filed legal proceedings against the UK government, claiming that it failed to adequately assess the...more

Sanctions Against Russia: The Week in Review - April 2022 - 2

K2 Integrity on 4/27/2022

The Week in Review delivers the impact and analysis for the public, private, and non-profit sectors from our regular reporting of the evolving global sanctions campaign against Russia. This week, we reviewed the recent...more

UK-EU Brexit Agreement Finally Agreed – Key Takeaways

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/4/2021

Just one day before New Year’s Eve, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU Council President Charles Michel and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Effective as...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.10.2020 | Top Story: Ransomware Attack on Travelex Sows Chaos Across Foreign Exchange Sector

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/10/2020

Hackers who targeted airport currency exchange mainstay Travelex in a ransomware attack on New Year’s Eve have alerted British media that they possess 5 GB of sensitive customer data from the company “since gaining access to...more

Financial Daily Dose 1.6.2020 | Top Story: Oil Futures Jump as Concerns Deepen Over Mideast Volatility

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/6/2020

Oil jumped for a second straight day, with futures near $70/barrel as fallout from the U.S.’s drone-strike assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani continues to raise “the prospect of disruptions in the world’s most important...more

Cross-Border Investigations Update - September 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/3/2019

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including a review of the first year of GDPR enforcement, analysis of...more

Outlook for US Trade Policy and the World Trade Organization in 2019

White & Case LLP on 2/7/2019

The year 2018 may be remembered as a turning point for US trade policy and the international trading system. The Trump administration took several unilateral trade actions, including the imposition of global "national...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - November 2018 #2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 11/9/2018

U.S. to Give Eight Nations Oil Waivers Under Iran Sanctions, Official Says - "The U.S. has agreed to let eight countries - including Japan, India and South Korea - keep buying Iranian oil after it reimposes sanctions on the...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2018 #2

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 9/14/2018

As Storm Looms, 4th Circuit Reverses Ruling Against Dominion on Coal Ash Pollution at Chesapeake Site - "Water pollution from a coal ash landfill and settling ponds at a closed power plant in Chesapeake is not a violation of...more

UK publishes paper on Brexit and medicines regulation

Hogan Lovells on 11/22/2017

On the same day as the European Council voted to move the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Amsterdam, the UK Parliament issued a briefing paper on Brexit and medicines regulation. ...more

Brexit – the end of parallel imports from the UK?

Hogan Lovells on 4/20/2017

The United Kingdom's unprecedented vote to leave the EU will undoubtedly cause a broad range of legal issues in the future. This post focuses on the consequences of Brexit on parallel imports - a field of significant...more

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