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Some recent changes have been reshaping the insurance industry. The global pandemic has forced the development of innovative digital solutions and services to maintain and expand business both in selling and offering new services and products of which technology is an integral part.

On the other hand, digitalization has also brought an increase in data breaches and the need for insurance companies to ensure that their customers, and themselves, have the right systems in place to prevent a cyberattack and respond quickly in the event of one. Alongside these changes, climate change is also taking an increasingly frequent place, with extreme weather-related events leading to an increasing number of claims.

Whatever your opportunities or challenges may be, our dedicated team understands your needs and works to strategically define tailor-made solutions.

We can help you shape your strategy, manage risks and make the most of business opportunities in these areas:

  • Litigation and claims reporting
  • Insurances arbitration
  • Mergers, acquisitions and other transactions
  • Regulation
  • Insurance policies draw up and update
  • Pension funds
  • Competition
  • Insurances taxation

We have an in-depth knowledge of how insurance law applies in practice across different markets and with cross-disciplinary teams, we work to provide advice close to our clients’ needs.


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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...
16/03/2023
Mer­ger con­trol re­view be­low fil­ing thresholds – the ECJ Tower­cast judg­ment...
On 16 March 2023, the ECJ de­cided that a M&A trans­ac­tion, which was not sub­ject to ex-ante EU mer­ger con­trol, can be re­viewed – from an ex post per­spect­ive – as to wheth­er the ac­quirer (through the...
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...
21/02/2023
UK reg­u­lat­or joins the glob­al en­force­ment trend and warns em­ploy­ers to...
The over­lap between em­ploy­ees’ rights and com­pet­i­tion law has long been pre­dicted by com­pet­i­tion spe­cial­ists. Car­tel en­force­ment in la­bour mar­ket agree­ments be­came a fledgling activ­ity of com­pet­i­tion...
16/02/2023
CJEU is­sues land­mark rul­ing on DPO dis­missals and con­flicts of in­terest
On 9 Feb­ru­ary 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Uni­on (CJEU) is­sued a pre­lim­in­ary rul­ing in case C‑453/21 re­gard­ing the jus­ti­fied grounds for the dis­missal of and the con­flict of in­terests...
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
31/01/2023
Ten things every in­surer should know in Por­tugal
1.In­tro­duc­tion The primary stat­utes ap­plic­able to the in­sur­ance busi­ness in Por­tugal are Law 147/2015, which reg­u­lates the activ­ity of in­sur­ance com­pan­ies and De­cree-Law n. º 72/20081With the amend­ments...
29/09/2022
Boom & Gloom? CMS European M&A Out­look 2023
We are pleased to share with you the 2023 edi­tion of the European M&A Out­look pub­lished by CMS in as­so­ci­ation with Mer­ger­mar­ket.