The CSRD’s core objectives remain intact, with the quick-fix trimming procedural burden to improve business usability and EU competitiveness. Whether the narrowed datapoint set preserves decision-useful information across the bloc will be tested in the next reporting cycle.
Navigating the Data Act’s B2B Unfairness Test: A Practical Guide
Beyond its well-known provisions on data access, Article 13 introduces a potent and binding unfairness test for B2B agreements.
U.S. Courts strike down Trump’s law firm retribution
The decision by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell to invalidate Donald Trump’s executive order against Perkins Coie is reassuring, though the whole development remains a disturbing sign of just how far political retribution has infiltrated the American legal system
General Counsel Insights – Regulations and Innovation in the European Financial Sector
This interview was conducted with Andrea Brancatelli, Legal Director at Moneygram International, an international peer-to-peer payments and money transfer company. With that in mind, the interview and comments focus more on the financial services sector, which is already one of the most tightly regulated industries in the EU.
Embedded Law – On the Future of Legal Services
This In Practice article is a thought experiment on the future of legal services. Technology is changing and changing us. It will have implications for the work of lawyers. Our natural assumption is that if change is incremental, it is not radical.
US: TikTok Ban imminent
Signed into law in April 2024, the legislation requires TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest its ownership to non-“foreign adversary” entities or cease operations entirely. ByteDance, headquartered in China, has so far failed to meet these conditions.
Constitutional Court of Belgium puts Legal Professional Privilege for In-house Lawyers back on Table of European Court of Justice
On 7 November 2024 the Constitutional Court of Belgium handed down a judgment following the appeal for the annulment of the Belgian law on whistleblowers and referred questions regarding the status of in-house counsel’s legal professional privilege to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
European Commission publishes recommendations to combat online and offline counterfeiting
The Commission estimates that industries that “make intensive use of IP” contribute 47% of total EU GDP and nearly 40% of total employment within the Union.
“Being that close to the business is just that much more exciting”
Interview: Guillaume Nonain, General Counsel EMEA & APAC and Global DPO (GDPR) at The Brink’s Company, has been working as an in-house counsel since 2005, providing legal support in a variety of industries.
OECD competition law recommendations include legal privilege
The eight points of recommendation on competition law include a point on legal privilege, an element that ECLA sees as inherent to the functioning of European corporate lawyers.
