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Over the last decade, more American teenagers have aspired to bypass college soccer and Major League Soccer (MLS) to join European academies and clubs. Success stories like Christian Pulisic, Gio Reyna, and Weston McKennie...more
European rules governing the determination of the applicable social security legislation for employees performing activities in several EU Member States can be complex. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is...more
The journey to implementation of the revised EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD) is in its final stages, and the Directive, AIFMD2, will take effect in each of the EEA member states on 16...more
Previously out of reach, Croatian citizenship by ancestry (CBA) is now more accessible than ever thanks to a recent overhaul of the country’s citizenship laws. A landmark 2020 amendment to the Croatian Citizenship Act...more
On March 5, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) issued an order exempting directors and officers of certain foreign private issuers (FPIs) in Canada, Chile, the European Economic Area, the Republic of...more
On March 5, 2026, the SEC issued Release No. 34-104931, granting conditional exemptive relief from the Section 16(a) reporting requirements for directors and officers of certain foreign private issuers (FPIs). ...more
On March 6, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order exempting directors and officers (D&Os) of certain foreign private issuers (FPIs) from the insider reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the...more
Ropes & Gray – in conjunction with leading law firms across Europe – has published a new update of its monthly CSRD Transposition Tracker....more
With only 12 months until CRD VI starts to reshape cross-border lending, non-EEA banks face a fundamental question: how — and whether — they can continue serving European clients. Many global banks are well advanced in...more
The European Union has revised the European Works Councils (EWC) directive, significantly strengthening employees’ rights to information and consultation across multinational organizations operating in the European Union or...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
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central bank (ECB) have published their joint 2025 report examining payment fraud trends across the EU/EEA from H1 2022 to H2 2024. The report confirms that strong...more
The European Commission (EC) opened on 13 November 2025 an investigation into possible abuse of dominance in breach of EU competition law by Red Bull through its activities as a category manager. This is the EC’s first formal...more
On November 24, 2025, Alvotech announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved AVT03 as a biosimilar to Amgen’s PROLIA® and XGEVA® (denosumab) in the European Economic Area. ...more
Following approval by the German Federal Council, the Germany’s Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Implementation Act (NIS2UmsuCG) is entering its final stage of the legislative process....more
Ropes & Gray – in conjunction with leading law firms across Europe – has released a new update of its monthly CSRD Transposition Tracker. The Tracker describes Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive transposition and...more
The digital world is becoming more inclusive, and that's great news for everyone. But for online retailers, accessibility laws in both the EU and US create compliance challenges that can't be ignored....more
On September 3, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) put months of uncertainty to rest by upholding the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Protection Framework (DPF). In doing so,...more
On 9 July 2025, the General Court of the European Union handed down its judgment in Case T 188/24, Michelin v. Commission, annulling in part the decision of the European Commission (the Commission) to submit Compagnie...more
The ECJ has confirmed that a payment service user (PSU) is deprived of the right to reimbursement for an unauthorised transaction under PSD1 if: they fail to notify without undue delay upon becoming aware of it; or...more
Poland's foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime, originally introduced in 2020 for a 24-month period and subsequently extended for an additional 60 months (i.e. until 24 July 2025), established a mechanism for...more
Reporting obligations under the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive are created under EU member state national legislation adopted pursuant to the CSRD. We have again updated our tracker to reflect...more
Ropes & Gray has once again updated its monthly Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Transposition Tracker. The Tracker is prepared in conjunction with leading law firms across Europe. The Tracker describes...more
The Pension Fund Clearing Obligation Exemption (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (SI 2025/670) have been published, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The regulations amend the UK version of Regulation 2012/648 (UK EMIR) and...more
In 2021, shortly after Brexit became effective, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) established the “UK+ regime” on the exhaustion of intellectual property (IP) rights with regard to the European Economic Area (EEA)....more