International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG)

📌 The update you need to read | The International Comparative Legal Guide - Investor-State Arbitration 2025 is now available. Compiled alongside the contributing editor Tafadzwa Pasipanodya of Foley Hoag LLP, this year's edition covers common issues in investor-state arbitration laws and regulations, including treaties, legal frameworks, case trends, funding, international tribunals, domestic courts, recognition and enforcement across multiple key jurisdictions. The 2025 edition also contains two expert analysis chapters, which explore the rise of climate change-related and environmental provisions in investment treaties, and the impact of EU law on ISDS, intra-EU BITs, the ECT and the MIC. Thank you to all contributing firms: Foley Hoag LLP | EFILA | Corrs Chambers Westgarth | WAGNER Arbitration | DLA Piper | Rahmat Lim & Partners | Consortium Legal |IORDACHE PARTNERS | Obeid & Partners | WongPartnership LLP | Íscar Arbitraje | Stampa Abogados | Astute Dispute Resolution | EB Legal | Saadeh Rahman LLP 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eErTNF39 #InvestorStateArbitration

⚡ Class actions risks in products "The products of today are infinitely more complex than the products of years past – and the risks posed by these products, in terms of actual harm and legal exposure under product laws, are correspondingly amplified and diverse." In the 2025 edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide - Class & Group Actions, Samantha Silver, Emilie Civatte, LL.M., Ed Gibson and Paula Margolis of Kennedys notes that as we continue to see a proliferation of risks in modern-day products, the number, size and complexity of collective actions is expected to continue to rise. This article explores how collective redress has been used to address current, and likely future, product risks and legal exposures, with a focus on: 🛑 Defective product risks 🛑 The proposed reuglation of artificial intelligence 🛑 Cybersecurity and data privacy risks 🛑 Environmental, social and governance risks The full article is available here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gMWPkeMQ #ClassActions #ProductLiability

👩💻 Singapore's response to artificial intelligence risks Coupled with the optimism for the possibilities of AI, there has been an increasing recognition of the potential risks, particularly in terms of unexpected harms. Governments around the world have responded to this in various ways. In the International Comparative Legal Guide - Cybersecurity, Chong Kin Lim 林宗勤, David N. Alfred and Albert Pichlmaier of Drew & Napier LLC explore general risks and governance issues relating to the use of AI and machine learning, followed by an exploration into how GenAI has manifested and even exacerbated existing cyber risks and, finally, how the Singapore government is addressing these issues. The full article is available to read for free, online 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ead6Qzmf #AI #Cybersecurity

Dodging a looming 2025 trial date, Disney has opted to pay out to resolve a California class action alleging discriminatory gender-based pay practices reports Ella Fincken. The class was represented by Andrus Anderson LLP, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC and Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho. Disney was represented by Paul Hastings.

Provisional findings from the Competition and Markets Authority’s investigation into UK browser markets have placed Apple and Google in the hot seat over concerns of market dominance, writes Ella Fincken.

🤖 While generative artificial intelligence continues to evolve, so too do the potential cyber-risks. As such, policymakers on a global scale are seeking to regulate generative AI, and it is said that China has led the change. Specifically, the Cyberspace Administration of China, jointly with six other authorities, issued the Interim Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services in July 2023, recognised as the first binding regulation on generative AI around the world. The the 2025 edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide - Cybersecurity, King & Wood Mallesons' Susan Ning and Han Wu discuss how generative AI intensifies cyber risks, and introduce China’s regulatory approach to address these risks. The full analysis is available, here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e9wcQ3f7 #AI #Cybersecurity

🌳 Climate washing and class actions In this year's International Comparative Legal Guide - Class & Group Actions publication, Robin Cantor, Chris Ring and Sydney Fallone of the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) address developments in climate change litigation and how recent federal and state actions related to climate change disclosures affect climate-washing risks, which derive from allegedly false or misleading claims about the benefits of an organisation’s disclosed climate activities. They also review recent climate-washing regulations and litigation to understand how federal or state actions can expand or mitigate the litigation risks to companies making mandatory or voluntary climate change disclosures, and explore the implications for enterprise risk from greenwashing or climate-washing challenges to corporate claims about the carbon intensity of products, use or production of “clean” energy, and commitments to a “net-zero” or “carbon-neutral” future. Take a look 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8c2_bs8 #GreenWashing #ClassActions

🔊 A case that has spanned nine jurisdictions and featured forged subpoenas, private investigators and more than 100 applications has concluded in the High Court, with the victorious parties represented by counsel from One Essex Court, Wilberforce Chambers and Serle Court, variously instructed by Debenhams Ottaway and Edwin Coe LLP. https://lnkd.in/gGwZbSm7

🤔 "Collective actions are claims in which a large number of claimants with a common interest or grievance bring legal proceedings as a group. While the concept was pioneered in the United States, an increasing number of countries have enacted and expanded collective redress procedures. Many factors are driving this. The growth of litigation funding, as well as global trends towards consumer protection (with a concomitant increase in awareness of consumer rights), and an increased awareness and monitoring of environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues, have all contributed to collective actions being a mainstay of dispute resolution around the world." Raif Hassan, Brienne Letourneau, Dr. Sonja Hoffmann and Sheldon Philp of White & Case LLP consider developments and trends within the class actions space across the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany in the most recent edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide. The full analysis is available here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gPyir3Z8 #ClassActions #CollectiveRedress

🔊 The UK clampdown on international financial crime intensifies with three high-profile kleptocrats sanctioned. Rob Harkavy reports. https://lnkd.in/euYqwrT4