Europe: Corporate/Commercial Law

Recent tragic events in motorsport, with the deaths of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli in IndyCar and MotoGP respectively, have brought into focus the role event organisers and venue owners play in ensuring the safety of those participating in sporting events and where liability rests when accidents do occur.

Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd has lost an appeal against conviction for corporate manslaughter. The BBC reports that the Court also upheld the company’s £385,000 fine at the Court of Appeal in London last week.

As the SRA continues with its timetable to implement outcomes-focused regulation (OFR), it has recently published its new Handbook, containing a principles based Code of Conduct.

The Privy Council's landmark decision in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd ([2025] UKPC 34) to abolish the Shareholder Rule has sparked extensive legal analysis...

On 24 July 2025, the Privy Council delivered a landmark decision that fundamentally reshapes the landscape of legal professional privilege in the context of corporate and shareholder disputes.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has delivered its judgment in Jardine Strategic Limited v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and 80 others (No 2) (Bermuda) abolishing the centuries old...

Anyone setting up a new business will have a long list of important matters to deal with (eg initial finance, premises, insurance, stationery etc).

A summary of the main advantages and disadvantages of both structures.

The rapidly expanding Turkish economy has been increasingly exciting the attention of foreign investment funds and multinational companies.

6102 sayılı Türk Ticaret Kanunu ("TTK") dahilinde anonim şirketlerde bilgi alma ve inceleme hakkı, pay sahiplerini ve yönetim kurulu üyelerini haiz olmak üzere müstakil hükümlerle düzenlenmiştir.

For acquisitions of enterprises and M&A transactions (e.g. share or asset deals), the key source of law is the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO). Since the provisions of the CO (e.g. in the sales law)...

In Yodel Delivery Network Limited v Corlett & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 1108, the Court of Appeal has again endorsed the English court's broad jurisdiction to grant injunctions...