Antitrust & Merger Control

• Brexit after the June election

  Blog Post

  Submitted: 12 June 2017

  The Prime Minister called the June election in order to strengthen her domestic political position before the start of Brexit negotiations. She appears to have achieved the opposite and we now have a hung Parliament and a minority government. Nevertheless, for the time being the UK Government appears set on continuing with its pre election policy for a “hard” Brexit. It remains to be seen whether this is politically possible.

• ECJ Opinion - Singapore Free Trade Agreement and Brexit implications

  Blog Post

  Submitted: 19 May 2017

  ​The European Court of Justice's Opinion on questions of the process for concluding a bilateral free trade agreement between the EU and the Republic of Singapore is particularly important as it will determine which provisions will require approval and subsequent ratification from all remaining EU Member States in any UK-EU deal brokered in the context of Brexit.