On April 18, 2023, eight Greenpeace organizations (the organizations) filed a lawsuit against the European Commission at the European Court of Justice following the Commission’s inclusion of natural gas and nuclear energy in...more
5/24/2023
/ Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
European Commission ,
Greenpeace ,
Infrastructure ,
Natural Gas ,
Nuclear Power ,
Oil & Gas ,
Taxonomy
On 11 April 2023, the UK Government announced that it has introduced a new “failure to prevent fraud” offence by way of an amendment to its draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the “Economic Crime Bill”)....more
Following months of uncertainty, on Christmas Eve a Brexit agreement was finally reached between the United Kingdom (“UK”) and the European Union (“EU”). The European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020 (the “Act”) received...more
After three years of uncertainty over the Serious Fraud Office’s (“SFO”) powers to obtain documents located overseas, the UK Supreme Court has clarified the extraterritorial effect of the legislation facilitating that power...more
2/25/2021
/ Anti-Corruption ,
Comity ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Document Productions ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Foreign Entities ,
KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK ,
White Collar Crimes