United Kingdom: Corporate/Commercial Law

As EU-based businesses will be aware, the European Commission unveiled a digital simplification package in November 2025 proposing significant changes to the EU AI Act, the GDPR, e-privacy and cyber incident reporting rules. The aim is to simplify and soften rules that are perceived to hinder the EU's digital competitiveness and act as a brake on innovation.

The case for separating aerospace and defense businesses from broader industrial production has never been stronger, and the drivers are not just activist investors who have championed such splits for a decade or more.

In this four minute video, we discuss some of the key pitfalls with those mundane – but often quite important – clauses in commercial agreements known as boilerplate