2023 Human Resources Outlook Podcast Series: EMEA
Anonymization and AI: Critical Technologies for Moving eDiscovery Data Across Borders
JONES DAY TALKS®: Navigating Sanctions and Export Controls: A Guide for EMEA Businesses
Below is an overview of the major updates from March 2026 in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region....more
On Feb. 12, 2026, the European Union published in its Official Journal an amendment to the previous regulation (EU) 2023/332) that updates and enhances how identity data is captured across the European Union for the purposes...more
Below is an overview of the major updates from January 2026 in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region....more
Welcome to the 16th edition of Cartel Intel! This bulletin provides a comprehensive overview of recent cartel enforcement and competition law developments across key jurisdictions. Together, these developments reflect an...more
Reviewing the major updates from 2025, we continue to see EMEA implementing tighter controls around immigration – specifically the entry and tracking of business visitors and tourists – while many countries are focusing on...more
In July 2025, Jones Day released a White Paper titled, "CCUS Regulation and Incentives in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Table for Strategic Decision-Making," followed by the publication in August of "Carbon Capture...more
The EMEA data center market has continued to be buoyant in 2025. However, navigating regulatory nuances and utility bottlenecks remains crucial to unlocking the sector’s huge growth potential - The EMEA data center market...more
Despite prevailing headwinds in wider M&A markets, take-private deal flow across EMEA sustained robust levels of activity as dealmakers jumped at opportunities to buy listed companies at attractive valuations - EMEA...more
As expected in the data privacy and digital space, 2024 shaped up to be a year full of guidance, consultations, regulatory focus areas and legislative updates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) remained a hot topic with...more
AI, social media and cloud computing are driving dealmaking demand in EMEA’s data center subsector - Demand for data centers—the physical facilities that house computer servers used by organizations to remotely store,...more
The majority of all 2023 EMEA restructurings involving an equitisation and/or a maturity extension required the provision of new money. While equitisation can solve for an over-leveraged capital structure, and maturity...more
Strategic carve-outs continue to present a strong business case, as companies shed non-core assets and position themselves for growth - Carve-outs remain a popular route to growth, with many European businesses...more
The past six months have seen difficult economic times in much of Europe, with governments and central banks seeking to respond to both the increases in costs of living and the need to curb inflation. Notwithstanding the...more
In 2020 and 2021, record activity levels for transatlantic M&A were reported, which finally came off the boil in Q2 2022. In 2021 alone, M&A transactions from the Americas into EMEA were worth an estimated US$553 billion (the...more
Resetting expectations - It was clear in the opening months of 2022 that the winds had changed for the global IPO market as compared to the prior year, a rocky path that continued throughout the year and into the first...more
Now in its seventh year of annual publication, White & Case's Foreign Direct Investment Reviews provides a comprehensive look into rapidly evolving foreign direct investment (FDI) laws and regulations in approximately 40...more
Judicial intervention, legislative developments, and regulatory guidance continue to shift the always taxing question of how data can be transferred between regions—e.g., the removal of the Privacy Shield agreement between...more
In this alert, we provide a round-up of the latest developments in ESG for UK corporates. In this month’s ESG Market Alert, we cover: The expanding scope of EU rules on ESG disclosures; FRC Lab launches project on...more
The protection of children’s online data has come to the forefront as one of the most important data privacy issues both in the United States and EMEA, and California is now expected to join the list of jurisdictions to enact...more
Allen & Overy’s ECM practice has been actively involved in a number of high profile and significant ECM transactions which have come to market in the first half of 2022, despite more challenging equity market conditions...more
On April 11, 2022, the EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee (CDDC) determined that the state-owned Russian Railways is in default on a missed bond payment. Russian Railways tried to make the interest payment due...more
The past two years have seen huge disruption in the aviation industry. But as this survey shows, the strength and diversity of the sector's financing ecosystem has played a decisive role in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. ...more
Looking at the current picture, 60 percent of respondents globally say that the aviation finance sector does not have enough capital and liquidity. Meanwhile, 32 percent believe that the sector has just the right amount of...more
Asset-backed securitization (ABS) is the funding mechanism that most respondents expect will increase in 2022, as players look to tap the value tied up in their aircraft and aero engines. ABS is a popular choice for...more
The hard deadline for stopping new use of USD LIBOR following 31 December 2021 is rapidly approaching. Latest market practice as at end November 2021 suggests that some loan market participants are (at last) now contracting...more