4/29/2025 2:17:37 PM Irish Merger Control Update and Outlook for 2025 By Dervla Broderick In February 2025, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) published its annual report on mergers and acquisitions,...
2/13/2025 10:15:06 PM ESG Compliance in 2025: A Curated Collection of Compliance Resources for Private Fund Managers and Portfolio Companies By Michael Littenberg ESG is integral to risk mitigation and value creation for most private fund managers and their portfolio companies. This year is likely...
1/13/2025 10:14:06 AM ESG in 2025 for Legal and Compliance Professionals: A Closer Look at Project 2025 By Michael Littenberg With Trump 2.0 beginning next week, it is time to take another, closer look at Project 2025. The 2025 Presidential Transition Project –...
1/6/2025 12:41:36 PM ESG in 2025 for Legal and Compliance Professionals: 25 Predictions for ‘25 By Michael Littenberg To quote Yogi Berra, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” On a more serious note, Henry Kissinger said “If you...
12/3/2024 6:25:06 PM In Case You Missed It: November 2024 Ropes & Gray ESG, CSR and Business and Human Rights Compliance Thought Leadership By Michael Littenberg Every month, our attorneys put out articles, alerts, white papers, blog posts and podcasts on a wide range of ESG, CSR and business and...
9/11/2024 9:22:26 AM Cloud services: market reflection and a growth story By Lisa Kaltenbrunner Olivia Bennett In 2023, the CMA commenced a market investigation into the cloud services market following a market study by Ofcom that identified...
5/28/2024 2:52:54 PM EC Fine on Mondelēz Signals Continued Focus on Parallel Trade Restrictions and on Retail By Lisa Kaltenbrunner Ruchit Patel Last week, the European Commission fined Mondelēz, the producer of Oreo cookies, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, and Toblerone, €337.5 million for...
5/21/2024 11:12:01 AM Combination Therapies and Cost-Containment: a European Update By Vincenzo Volpe Last November, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a Prioritisation Statement on combination therapies. The...
3/13/2024 10:15:54 AM House Oversight Committee echoes Judiciary Committee ESG saber-rattling in letter to the Fed By Amy Roy Robert Skinner Representative James Comer (R-KY), Chair of U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sent a February 26, 2024 letter to the...
3/8/2024 10:52:13 AM The first 100 days of the FSR: The private equity experience By Dervla Broderick Olivia Bennett The European Commission (EC) has published a briefing on the first 100 days of operation of the new concentration notification obligation...
3/4/2024 4:05:00 PM Ireland publishes draft guidance on the new FDI screening regime By Dervla Broderick Carol Slattery In anticipation of Ireland’s foreign direct investment (FDI) screening regime becoming operational in the coming months, the Department...
2/29/2024 10:13:53 AM EC revises Notice on Market Definition By James Parkinson 27 years after the first edition, the European Commission (“EC”) adopted on 8 February 2024 a revised Market Definition Notice (the...
2/20/2024 9:57:48 AM The Commission’s Bulgarian gas decision explodes By Lisa Kaltenbrunner In October 2023, the General Court of the European Union (GC) entirely annulled the European Commission’s (Commission) 2018 decision to...
2/9/2024 11:18:45 AM Competition enforcement in pharma: Insights from the EC’s Update Report By Vincenzo Volpe The European Commission (EC) has published a report providing an overview of the enforcement of EU antitrust and merger rules by the EC...
2/2/2024 12:51:55 PM All change – EC publishes proposed reforms to EU FDI screening regulation By James Parkinson Mez Azizi The European Commission (EC) has adopted five initiatives to strengthen the EU’s economic security in the wake of ‘growing geopolitical...
1/7/2024 8:23:32 PM In case you missed it: December 2023 Ropes & Gray ESG, CSR and business and human rights thought leadership By Michael Littenberg Every month, our attorneys put out articles, alerts, white papers, blog posts and podcasts on a wide range of ESG, CSR and business and...