The European defence sector is undergoing rapid growth as governments expand budgets and accelerate modernization programmes. For companies, this expansion creates exciting opportunities but also exposes them to heightened legal, regulatory, and reputational risks. The regulatory landscape is comple...
On 6 March 2025, the Swedish Government presented a new government bill with a new act on international sanctions (Sw. Prop. 2024/25:126 Ny lag om internationella sanktioner). Sweden has had legislation regarding enforcement of breach of sanctions for a long time but there has been scarce enforcemen...
Introduction Despite the increasing number of adopted sanctions, targeting not only Russia and Russian entities, but also, Iran, North Korea, among other jurisdictions, the European Union (the “EU”) has taken note of frequent breaches of sanctions combined with incoherent enforcement at Member State...
The Illumina/Grail saga is turning into a nightmare for the US biotech company Illumina. On 5 December 2022, it received a statement of objections (SO) from the European Commission (the EC) setting out the restorative measures to be taken by Illumina to unwind the acquisition of the US biotech start...
On 28 November 2022, the Council of the European Union adopted the NIS2 Directive. The aim of the NIS2 Directive is to contribute to the enhancement of cyber security for critical infrastructure in the EU. The NIS2 Directive, inter alia, expands the list of sectors within the scope of the NIS regula...
The area of EU and competition law is in constant motion. Both the EU legislators and courts make sure that this field of law is developing at high speed. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to keep up to date with the latest developments in this area. At the same time, many of these dev...