03 May, 2024 The Digital Securities Sandbox: a new model for trading and settlement in the UK? By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard Olivia Davies On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their...
02 May, 2024 Carbon Capture, Use & Storage: what you need to know By Alon Gordon Vanessa Jakovich Kate Gough Philip Morgan James Chapman Sascha Arnold +3 more... Show less Carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) is a key technology to help achieve global net zero goals,[1] particularly for hard to abate...
02 May, 2024 Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes By Vanessa Jakovich Deborah Janssens Steffie De Backer Kieran Watkins +1 more... Show less Mandatory Net-Zero Regimes Global efforts to deal with climate change have accelerated in the 30 years since the 1994 United Nations...
02 May, 2024 High Yield and Leveraged Finance in Europe By Haden Henderson Simone Bono Michael Josenhans Marvin Knapp Lindsay Hingston +2 more... Show less On 25 April, Freshfields hosted AFME’s European High Yield and Leveraged Finance Frankfurt Seminar in our Frankfurt office. Lead by...
02 May, 2024 European Electricity Market Reform By Ulrich Scholz Pascal Cuche Hendrik Wessling Philipp Reinecke, LL.M. Jean-Baptiste Santini +2 more... Show less Due to its economic characteristics - large-scale storage issues, very different cost structures between players, demand that is not very...
01 May, 2024 New mobility – key issues to consider By Juliane Hilf Pascal Cuche Sascha Arnold Jonas Köster Guillemette Burgala Fedor Teselkin Sara Barin Mesut Korkmaz +5 more... Show less Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just...
30 Apr, 2024 The CMA’s revised Phase 2 process – more than old wine in a new bottle? By Colin Raftery This article was first published by Global Competition Review on 25 April 2024. Following a public consultation launched in November...
30 Apr, 2024 Clean hydrogen – what you need to know By Ulrich Scholz Pascal Cuche Tanguy Bardet Andreas Ruthemeyer James Chapman Olivier Rogivue Hendrik Wessling Louise Bragard +5 more... Show less Opportunities and risks of a clean hydrogen economy Clean hydrogen and its derivatives are widely seen as key enablers for the...
24 Apr, 2024 UK National Security and Investment Act Update: what’s new on the horizon for restructuring & insolvency By David Bor Katharina Crinson Ken Baird The UK National Security and Investment Act came into force on 4 January 2022, significantly extending the UK Government’s power to...
23 Apr, 2024 Updating the UK national security and investment regime By Alastair Mordaunt Sarah Jensen Iona Crawford Reforms to “fine tune” the system – with more opportunities ahead for stakeholders to help make the regime as pro-business as possible A...
22 Apr, 2024 Four key takeaways for restructuring and insolvency practitioners from the UKJT Legal Statement on Digital Assets and English Insolvency Law By Nicholas Cooper Rob Gray Katharina Crinson On 17 April 2024 the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (the UKJT), chaired by Sir Geoffrey Vos, published its Legal Statement on Digital Assets...
11 Apr, 2024 Multi process restructurings By Jamie Murray-Jones Lindsay Hingston Katharina Crinson Prompted by the EU Restructuring Directive and accelerated by the pandemic, jurisdictions all across Europe have completely transformed...