European Union: Contracts and Commercial Law

Counterfeiting is not an abstract threat for brands like Louis Vuitton. It is an everyday reality. LV's signature monogram and its iconic brown-and-gold palette are among the most copied visual identities in the world. Protecting them is not optional, it is existential. But as LV's enforcement record grows, so does a more complicated question: where does protection end and overclaiming begin?

Cross border structuring, group expansion and corporate maintenance in the DACH region are often slowed not by substantive law, nor by commercial appetite...

Legislative Decree of December 31, 2025, No. 209, (the “Decree”), published in the Official Gazette on January 8, 2026, transposes Directive (EU) 2023/2673 of November 22, 2023, into Italian law.

International investors buying property in Portugal increasingly consider the strategic use of finance rather than relying solely on cash.

By virtue of Legal Notice 91 of 2026, the Minister responsible for the registration of commercial partnerships, in consultation with the Minister responsible for education, sport, youth, research and innovation...

In the dynamic landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Netherlands, the legal due diligence investigation remains one of the most critical phases of any transaction.

The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) Directive introduces a new EU‑wide framework to combat greenwashing and social washing across all consumer markets.

Addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the key objectives of the EU’s legislative reform. However, the development pipeline for new effective antimicrobials is obstructed, primarily due to a profound market failure: the low commercial value of the antimicrobial medicinal product market (costly development versus naturally limited market). In short, the market alone cannot deliver the solutions urgently needed to address AMR.

In practice, we are increasingly seeing clients approach us not only with tax or succession questions...