Given the current crisis, many employers are under huge pressure to cut costs and reorganize their workforce which very often means the implementation of redundancy programs.

Listen to our podcast in which Purvis Ghani and Sascha Grosjean and Juan Alonso Berberena discuss the appropriate mechanisms in Germany, Spain and the UK.

Starting with the Paris Agreement in 2015, continuing with the ambitious goals set forth by the EU in its proposed Green Deal, the world is waking up to the urgency of climate change and the preservation of biodiversity. The current pandemic has also generated further debate about the need to take action.

In the latest Business Bite, partners Jean-Nicolas Maillard and Yves Botteman and business development manager Grace Smouter, each with a focus on EU competition law, discuss how antitrust policy and enforcement should adapt to foster ambitious industry collaborations aimed at tackling climate change and biodiversity.

Interested in continuing the discussion? Then why not join our upcoming series of virtual roundtables hosted by Yves and Jean-Nicolas to foster more dialogue and between industry and regulators? The series will include discussions on perceived conflicts between EU sustainability goals and antitrust enforcement; changes to product and production processes; codes of conduct initiated by trade associations; as well as industry cooperation around innovation and the circular economy. Keep an eye on dentons.com for updates or click here to register your interest.

Given the current crisis, many employers are under huge pressure to cut costs. Against this background, we continue looking at changing employment trends in this challenging environment and the future of work – this time turning to Germany, Spain and the UK.

Listen to our two podcasts in which Purvis Ghani and Sascha Grosjean and Juan Alonso Berberena give us a deeper insight into the current situation and the new normal of working from home.

Given the current crisis, many employers are under huge pressure to cut costs. Against this background, we continue looking at changing employment trends in this challenging environment and the future of work – this time turning to Germany, Spain and the UK.

Listen to our two podcasts in which Purvis Ghani and Sascha Grosjean and Juan Alonso Berberena give us a deeper insight into the current situation and the new normal of working from home.

Listen to Dentons partners Séverine Hotellier and Nora Wouters, as well as Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Course Director at the Academy of European Law (Europäische Rechtsakademie, ERA) in Trier, Germany, discuss the use of insurance in managing the risk of investment screening. Investment screening risk insurance will be familiar to investors active in the US (CFIUS insurance), but it remains a relatively new topic in the European market. However, since the introduction last year of an EU framework for FDI screening, investors are beginning to look at ways to mitigate the risk that FDI transactions may be blocked or delayed as a result of investment screening. We take a closer look at the phenomenon of using insurance to mitigate this risk.

Listen to Dentons partners Katell Déniel-Allioux, Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek and Tomáš Bílek discuss the changes in working trends that have been accelerated by COVID-19, in particular the challenges employers may need to be mindful of as agile working becomes a cornerstone of the new dynamic.

Listen to Dentons partners Anouk Rosielle, Tim Constable and Thomas Nebel discuss one of the most frequent topics raised by businesses during this current crisis – Force Majeure. As COVID-19 has proven a testing ground for Force Majeure, we discuss the preliminary results, as well as consider the future of Force Majeure.

Please click the play button below to listen to the first episode in which Alan Ragueneau, Managing Director Nextlaw In-House Solutions, and Tomasz Dąbrowski, Dentons Europe CEO, discuss the new dynamic that organisations have faced during the current crises and how COVID-19 has accelerated a number of the challenges and change that many business were working to address.