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As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure, growing retailer buyer power, the rise of online selling and counterfeiting. Our pan-European team is structured around the key sectors of consumer products including cosmetics, clothing, electronics, health & beauty, food & drink, retail, household equipment and manufacturing. Whether you are a supplier, investor, regulator or other stakeholder, we have consumer products experts to help, whatever your situation.

In order to give you the targeted legal advice your business needs, our teams have experts from every legal area affecting your sector. This means we can guide you on all legal and regulatory aspects - from the financing and acquisition of companies, through to antitrust and unfair competition law, media management, nutritional and health claims, advertising and marketing, strategies for the protection of intellectual property rights, data protection, outsourcing, distribution agreements, real estate transactions, product recalls and much more. Our experts will keep you abreast of the latest sector insight and developments, giving you a commercial, as well as a legal, edge.


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16/05/2023
Can­nabis law and le­gis­la­tion in North Mace­do­nia
Med­ic­al use The Mace­do­ni­an Law on the con­trol of Nar­cot­ics Drugs and Psy­cho­trop­ics Sub­stances con­sider Med­ic­al Can­nabis as psy­cho­act­ive con­trolled sub­stance (nar­cot­ic drug). The Med­ic­al Can­nabis is treated...
02/05/2023
CMS up­dates Ex­pert Guide on can­nabis law and le­gis­la­tion
CMS Ex­pert Guide on can­nabis law and le­gis­la­tion gives stake­hold­ers de­tailed and up­dated in­form­a­tion on the latest de­vel­op­ments in can­nabis reg­u­la­tion in key mar­kets. The Guide now cov­ers two new jur­is­dic­tions:...
13/04/2023
CMS series: At CEEnter stage
Our en­ga­ging pod­cast and video series, "At CEEntre Stage," is a valu­able re­source for pro­fes­sion­als and leg­al ad­visors seek­ing in-depth in­sights in­to vari­ous Cor­por­ate and M&A top­ics. Our series caters to di­verse busi­nesses in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe, provid­ing com­pre­hens­ive cov­er­age of the on­go­ing chal­lenges they face.Half-hour mod­er­ated dis­cus­sions with leg­al ex­perts and in­dustry lead­ers al­low us to gain valu­able in­sights in­to their vis­ion for the fu­ture, the chal­lenges they face, and ways to im­prove their busi­nesses. We also provide guid­ance on nav­ig­at­ing leg­al com­plex­it­ies and avoid­ing po­ten­tial traps, en­sur­ing our listen­ers re­ceive con­tex­tu­al­ized in­sights in­to the re­gion's dis­tinct­ive busi­ness land­scape and reg­u­lat­ory en­vir­on­ment.Our com­pre­hens­ive cov­er­age of vari­ous in­dus­tries and their on­go­ing chal­lenges makes "At CEEntre Stage" an es­sen­tial re­source for stay­ing ahead of the curve in today's fast-paced eco­nomy. The pod­cast cov­ers rel­ev­ant Cor­por­ate and M&A top­ics from W&I in­sur­ances, FDI to ESOP, joint ven­tures, fin­an­cing and ESG.Tune in to "At CEEntre Stage" today and stay in­formed on the latest in­sights and trends in the world of cor­por­ate law and M&A.
04/04/2023
European Com­mis­sion amends Art­icle 102 TFEU guid­ance pa­per and an­nounces...
In 2008, the Com­mis­sion ad­op­ted its Guid­ance on the Com­mis­sion`s en­force­ment pri­or­it­ies in ap­ply­ing Art­icle 82 of the EC Treaty (now Art­icle 102 TFEU) to ab­us­ive ex­clu­sion­ary con­duct by dom­in­ant un­der­tak­ings...
28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
20/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Con­sid­er­a­tions for pat­entees in opt­ing...
So far in this series of blog posts, we began with an art­icle that high­lighted some of the key changes between the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and the new Unit­ary Pat­ent...
09/03/2023
Se­cur­ity for costs in en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings in Ger­many – The Ger­man Fed­er­al...
Pur­su­ant to Sec. 110 of the Ger­man Civil Pro­ced­ure Code (ZPO), claimants who do not have their ha­bitu­al place of res­id­ence in a mem­ber state of the EU/the EEA can be ordered to provide se­cur­ity for the...
09/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to ESG Com­pens­a­tion
In­cor­por­at­ing ESG KPIs in­to dir­ect­ors’ re­mu­ner­a­tionThe ur­gent need to place sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the heart of com­pany strategy is in­ex­tric­ably linked to in­cent­ives provided to its dir­ect­ors and em­ploy­ees. This...
08/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Pro­ced­ur­al fea­tures of the Uni­fied Pat­ent...
In our pre­vi­ous art­icle, we looked at the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and high­lighted some of the key changes that will be com­ing with the new Unit­ary Pat­ent and Uni­fied...
06/03/2023
Fu­ture im­pact of emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies on IP pro­tec­tion and en­force­ment...
As tech­no­logy de­vel­ops rap­idly, the way in which stake­hold­ers pro­tect and en­force their in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty (IP) is chan­ging and will con­tin­ue to change in the fu­ture, but how? And should ex­ist­ing IP...
28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
20/02/2023
Sun­rise peri­od of the Uni­fied Pat­ent Court to be­gin 1 March
After the fi­nal ver­sion of the UPC Rules of Pro­ced­ure had been ad­op­ted and the judges of the UPC had been se­lec­ted and ap­poin­ted, the start of the Sun­rise Peri­od, ori­gin­ally planned for 1 Janu­ary 2023...