Dentons Business Bites

The evolving global COVID-19 public health emergency continues to create challenges for business. Offering food for thought in the current situation, our Business Bites podcast series asks what ingredients can create the best recipes to address these challenges.

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by the new dynamic.

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.

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by the new dynamic.

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.

Business Bite: The future of remote working by Dentons

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by the new dynamic.

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.

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by the new dynamic.

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.

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by the new dynamic.

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.

Offering food for thought in the current situation, the Business Bites series continues to ask what ingredients can create the best recipes to help navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by 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.