Pinsent Masons conducts a wide range of work for central and local government, and is one of a handful of ‘Tier 1’ firms ...

The European Commission has granted conditional approval for an acquisition under the Foreign Subsides Regulation (FSR) for ...

Ireland’s budget for 2025 sets out a range of tax relief measures as part of the government’s effort to improve its business ...

As the UK moves to limit the use of ‘restrictive covenants’ such as non-compete and non-solicitation clauses in employment agreements, and the US’ Federal Trade Commission ban on such clauses faces ...

Investors in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are likely to be greatly impacted by the upcoming withdrawal of all three countries from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The three ...

The Qatar Financial Centre’s (QFC) new digital assets regulatory framework has introduced innovative legislation alongside amendments to existing laws on the regulation of digital assets within the ...

The UK Pensions Ombudsman (PO) will soon launch an expedited determinations scheme to help speed up the resolution of complaints and allow adjudicators to focus on more complex cases. In a recent blog ...

An EU court has provided useful guidance to brand owners on how they might defeat claims that their trade marks should be revoked because they lack distinctiveness. The case, which was considered by ...

A new precedential ruling procedure is to be introduced for mass claims before the German Federal Court of Justice, to relieve the burden on the courts and speed up proceedings. The German Bundestag ...

Mauritania has enacted a new law to introduce a regulatory framework for the development and operation of green hydrogen, offering tax breaks to attract more investments into the African nation’s ...

A recent Indian supreme court ruling has confirmed that whether a non-signatory is party to an arbitration agreement is a question of fact to be decided by the arbitral tribunal, demonstrating the ...

Businesses across the UK should examine the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) 2024 Food Crime Strategic Assessment and factor its key themes and overarching food crime methods into their risk assessments, ...