A year on from the national implementation deadline of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, the CJEU has upheld controversial Article 17.
By Deborah Kirk, Elva Cullen, Victoria Wan, and Amy Smyth
In September 2016, the European Commission announced its proposal on “the modernisation of copyright” designed to bring “clearer rules for all online players”. Six years later, in September 2022, and following a national transposition deadline of 7 June 2021, the EU Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market 2019/790 (the Directive) is not yet fully implemented across all EU Member States. Continue Reading
On 28 June 2022, the UK government published its 
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created new headwinds for M&A dealmakers, as a complicated matrix of sanctions and export controls poses legal challenges for both buyers and sellers, as well as transaction targets. With sanctions regimes becoming ever more complex, deal planning and execution requires expert legal counsel and skillful navigation. 
On 29 July 2022, the UK High Court ruled in Cabo Concepts Limited v. MGA Entertainment (UK) Limited that toy manufacturer MGA should pay hefty costs for failure to conduct proper pre-trial disclosure. 
LawtechUK’s latest analysis of so-called smarter contracts in the UK, set out in its 
A tribunal seated in Sweden has become the first to uphold the “intra-EU objection” in an arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) administered by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The tribunal found that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a dispute between two Danish solar energy investors — Green Power and SCE (the Claimants) — and the Kingdom of Spain on the basis that Spain’s standing offer to arbitrate under Article 26 of the ECT was invalid as a matter of EU law. The unprecedented decision gives effect to a series of seminal judgments of the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) which held that intra-EU investment arbitrations are incompatible with the primacy of EU law and the unity of the EU legal order. 
The outcome of the 
On 19 July 2022, HM Treasury published the 
Direct lending has long been a feature of the debt market, and has recently taken market share on predominantly small- to medium-cap deals. However, as syndicated debt markets remain dislocated, direct lenders are stepping up on a growing range of European PE transactions, such as The Access Group’s c.£3.2 billion refinancing, one of the largest unitranche deals in Europe to date. 
