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The existing labour shortage is providing fertile ground for the establishment of new unions, or the strengthening of the position of existing ones, and many employers find themselves facing this prospect. The establishment of a trade union is a relatively simple process which, when combined with the prevailing situation in the job market, has contributed to the fact that trade unions are cropping up around Slovakia often only as a form of bullying employers. Increasingly we are encountering cases where the persons who establish these unions do not even actually work for the particular employer where the union is being formed. These people select companies based mainly on their economic performance and then send out mass mailings to employers informing them that a union has been established in their workplace, often stating unreasonable and even absurd demands. They have no knowledge of the conditions at play at any employer, and only afterwards do they try to recruit the workers as members of the union. There has not yet been established a cohesive and effective form of defence against these practices.

The National Assembly has enacted the Law on Public Debt Management 2017 (LPDM 2017) which will be effective on July 1 2018. In comparison with the previous law, the LPDM 2017 imposes more stringent conditions on the new issuance of government guarantees for foreign loans of enterprises implementing investment projects, thereby leading to more difficulty in obtaining government guarantees for financing of enterprises and their projects, particularly for those with foreign-sourced funding.

IFLR speaks with Morrison & Foerster partner Susan Gault-Brown and of counsel James Schwartz on the poll results and what to expect next for the Volcker Rule

The EU has created a new rank of bank creditors to help banks comply with the resolution requirements at a more favourable cost while improving the protection of depositors

The EU’s landmark directive changes the regime applicable to French financial investment advisors

There are very few people who are willing to discuss the pending mega merger between American publically traded agro biotech company Monsanto, and the German megalithic life science and pharma company Bayer. The deal is worth a reported $66 billion and has unsurprisingly piqued the interest of antitrust agencies across the world.

Cov-lite makes lending more streamlined and efficient for borrowers, but at what cost?

Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending have been on the EU Commission's radar for a while. Until recently, the position was 'no-action required'. However, the growing relevance of the market led the Commission to issue a proposal for the regulation of European crowdfunding service providers for business (the Regulation) on March 8 2018. This regulation focuses on crowdfunding for the funding of business (hence, excluding crowdfunding for social projects).

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) recently published its 2017 annual report. It is essential reading for Irish finance services regulatory advisers, and for any entity with a business presence in Ireland in the banking and financial services sector.

The EU’s new framework to encourage high quality securitisations contains a revised set of rules together with criteria for simple, transparent and standardised securitisations