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The CMS Commercial Law Group advises clients in the following areas:

  • Commercial and consumer contracts
  • Purchase, production and distribution agreements
  • Supply services and construction agreements
  • Outsourcing
  • Ongoing commercial and consumer law advice vis-à-vis customers and suppliers
  • Representation in related court and arbitration proceedings

We often advise on a multi-jurisdictional basis and across a variety of sectors. Our industry sector expertise means we focus on issues affecting businesses in sectors such as automotive, consumer products, energy, financial services, hotels and leisure, lifesciences and technology, media and telecoms ensuring that our advice is perfectly suited to our clients’ needs.

Our clients benefit from:

Our extensive geographic scope, coupled with a consistently pragmatic and commercial approach

  • A sector focused approach and our insight into issues affecting our clients’ business Clear and commercial advice – our lawyers are trained to provide clear, succinct advice that addresses clients’ commercial imperatives
  • Coordinated services between our offices to ensure clients can implement projects and initiatives and receive joined up advice regardless of jurisdiction
  • Advice in a number of different languages
  • Sensitivity towards the different approaches required in commercial work and the associated liabilities taken in different jurisdictions
  • the ability to tailor our advice and negotiation strategies accordingly
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22 January 2021
EDPB is­sues draft guidelines for data breach no­ti­fic­a­tions
Fur­ther to the GDPR re­quire­ment for re­port­ing per­son­al data breaches to the com­pet­ent data pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity and, in cer­tain cases, to af­fected in­di­vidu­als, the European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB)...
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19 January 2021
New GDPR strategy to tackle new tech­no­logy, data se­cur­ity, in­ter­na­tion­al...
The European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB) pub­lished its GDPR Strategy 2021-2023 on 5 Janu­ary 2021, set­ting out four main pil­lars and key ac­tions, which in­clude: Pil­lar 1: Ad­van­cing har­mon­isa­tion and...
Law-Now Insurance
13 January 2021
EU­'s Por­tuguese pres­id­ency re­leases new draft of ePri­vacy Reg­u­la­tion
On 5 Janu­ary 2021, the Coun­cil of the EU – with Por­tugal serving as the Pres­id­ent-in-Of­fice – re­leased a new draft ver­sion of the ePri­vacy Reg­u­la­tion, which is meant to re­place the ePri­vacy Dir­ect­ive...
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16 December 2020
EU Com­mis­sion pub­lishes pro­posed Data Gov­ernance Reg­u­la­tion
On 25 Novem­ber 2020 the European Com­mis­sion pro­posed new rules on data gov­ernance – a pro­posed Data Gov­ernance Reg­u­la­tion, which is the first of a set of meas­ures an­nounced in the 2020 European strategy...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
15 December 2020
Five years after Hua­wei ZTE FRAND li­cens­ing ob­lig­a­tions again be­fore the...
On 26 Novem­ber 2020, the Düs­sel­dorf Re­gion­al Court an­nounced that it would sus­pend a pat­ent in­fringe­ment pro­ceed­ing and refer key ques­tions on com­puls­ory li­cens­ing of stand­ard es­sen­tial pat­ents (SEP)...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
11 December 2020
CMS Ex­pert Guide to LVMH lim­its to cash pay­ments
Cash pay­ments are still, in cer­tain coun­tries, the easi­est and most com­mon type of pay­ment to con­clude a com­mer­cial trans­ac­tion. However, the con­tinu­ous in­crease of money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ist fin­an­cing...
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01 December 2020
Ar­bit­ral rules – The sea­son of change con­tin­ues: ICC Ar­bit­ra­tion Up­date
On 1 Decem­ber 2020, the ICC In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Ar­bit­ra­tion launched its re­vised ICC Ar­bit­ra­tion Rules (the “Rules”), which will ap­ply to ar­bit­ra­tions sub­mit­ted to the ICC Court from 1 Janu­ary...
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24 November 2020
Schrems II: Re­sponses to the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies' as­sess­ment and re­com­mend­a­tions...
"Schrems II": Opin­ions of the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies on Schrems II and re­com­mend­a­tions on the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the judge­ment in in­ter­na­tion­al data trans­fers On 16 Ju­ly 2020, the Court of Justice of...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
16 November 2020
Schrems II re­vis­ited: the European data au­thor­ity pub­lishes draft guid­ance...
On 11 Novem­ber 2020, the European Data Pro­tec­tion Board (EDPB) pub­lished two re­com­mend­a­tions that provide guid­ance to com­pan­ies on how to as­sess data trans­fers after the ECJ’s Schrems II de­cision:...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
10 November 2020
Reg­u­lat­ing high-risk AI: EU Par­lia­ment calls for a new civil li­ab­il­ity...
On the 19 Oc­to­ber 2020, the European Par­lia­ment (“EP”) ad­op­ted pro­pos­als on reg­u­la­tion of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (“AI”) pre­pared by the EP’s Com­mit­tee on Leg­al Af­fairs (“JURI Com­mit­tee”)...
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23 October 2020
The EU FDI Reg­u­la­tion be­comes fully ap­plic­able
The EU FDI Reg­u­la­tion, which came in­to force in April 2019, in­tro­duces a frame­work for screen­ing FDI in­to the EU. It is not a sep­ar­ate new screen­ing tool at EU level, but a frame­work for co­oper­a­tion and...
Law-Now Commercial
15 September 2020
European Com­mis­sion pub­lishes Staff Work­ing Doc­u­ment on Ver­tic­al Block...
The Staff Work­ing Doc­u­ment (SWD 2020 173 fi­nal) is the next step on the road to an up­dated VBER and cor­res­pond­ing guidelines. With the cur­rent VBER due to ex­pire on 31 May 2022, the Staff Work­ing Doc­u­ment...
Law-Now Consumer Products
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