3/21/2025 9:20:00 AM Have Your Say: Shaping the Future of “Green State Aid” By Andreas von Bonin Aurélie Morreale Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Florian Reiter-Werzin +1 more... Show less On 11 March, the European Commission launched a public consultation on its draft State aid Framework accompanying the Clean Industrial...
3/14/2025 4:02:52 PM Foundations for the future of decarbonisation and competitiveness in Europe? A look at the Clean Industrial Deal By Lea Bareil Karl Thies Introduction On 26 February, the European Commission (EC) published its Clean Industrial Deal (CID), which is expected to be this term’s...
2/27/2025 4:02:45 PM All change please! Omnibus re-routes CSRD, CSDDD, Taxonomy and CBAM By Lea Bareil Douglas Bryden Juliane Hilf Vanessa Jakovich Marlen Vesper-Gräske Hendrik Wessling Charlotte Aspin Valentin Weigel +5 more... Show less The European Commission (EC) has published its highly anticipated sustainability-related Omnibus simplification package (Omnibus...
2/24/2025 9:11:43 AM Managing ESG risks in an evolving regulatory landscape: What the new EBA Guidelines mean for banks in light of the EU’s Omnibus proposal By Elisabeth Schemmer Daniel Klingenbrunn Falko Glasow While the European Union (EU) awaits the European Commission’s detailed proposals on the EU Omnibus proposal with revisions to the...
2/12/2025 8:42:48 PM German Election #5: The future of Germany’s energy policy By Alex Schmidtke On 23 February 2025, almost 60 million German voters will elect a new federal parliament in snap elections after the collapse of the...
1/27/2025 7:48:38 PM Life sciences – what to watch in 2025 By Adam Golden Kristen Riemenschneider Madeleine Tavcar We asked more than 200 Freshfields lawyers – across geographies and practice areas: what are the 1-2 issues top of mind for you and your...
1/14/2025 11:09:52 AM The year ahead in financial services: 10 trends to watch in 2025 By Sharon Grennan Christopher Bernard 2024 was a momentous year for the financial services industry. Financial institutions had to deal with geopolitical risks arising from...
9/2/2024 2:56:13 PM Towards balanced representation of men and women in decision-making bodies By Raquel Flórez Sara Moukayed The Parity Act, Organic Law 2/2024, of 1 August, on equal representation and balanced presence of women and men (the Act), came into...
7/3/2024 10:08:02 AM EU leadership shake-up: implications for business and policy By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Lea Bareil Jimena Gonzalez In the wake of the recent European elections, the EU27 Heads of State and Government have finalised allocating the influential EU top...
6/18/2024 12:57:15 PM What’s new in greenwashing? The Green Claims Directive on its way to adoption By Tobias Timmann Yulianna Tkach Following the adoption of the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (the “Empowering Consumers Directive”) which came...
6/5/2024 2:10:45 PM What to expect from the EU’s CSDDD #3: key takeaways from Freshfields’ CSDDD webinar By Christoph H. Seibt Juliane Hilf Moritz Becker Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Marlen Vesper-Gräske Valentin Weigel +3 more... Show less On 22 May 2024, our global ESG group hosted a webinar discussing the key aspects of the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence...
5/24/2024 4:15:48 PM What to expect from the EU’s CSDDD #2: Civil Liability and Litigation Risks By Moritz Becker Mijke Sinninghe Damsté Jan Henning Buschfeld James Raeside Stefanie Spancken-Monz Elena Engels Boudewijn Renshof +4 more... Show less This blog is part of a series of in-depth overviews of aspects of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which,...