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Blue Bonds: Making a splash in the Capital Markets
In 2018, the Republic of Seychelles launched the first-ever “blue bond”, with the support of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
eMobility
Legal insights into the global eMobility market
Global | Publication | September 2020
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Against a backdrop of market and technological disruption, our sector driven business model enables us to anticipate change across core industries and leverage the experience and knowledge of our experts in one industry in order to benefit our clients in another.
We help our clients embrace technology as a catalyst for growth. We help them understand and explore the evolving legal landscape as technology continues to change the way their business operates and how they deliver solutions to their customers.
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As the digital transformation of the energy market continues, the distinctions between the energy, transport and technology markets are becoming more blurred, as are those between sub-sectors within the energy market. The areas where this trend is most apparent are:
- smart technology for electric vehicles, in particular electric charging infrastructure
- distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar
- the integration of variable renewable energy resources
- smart demand response, in particular the development of smart grids and smart homes
- battery storage
In all these areas we are at the forefront of developing legal solutions for clients investing in emerging new asset classes and technologies.
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On 8 May 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) delivered its ruling in case C-581/23 (the Ruling), providing guidance on one of the conditions for an exclusive distribution agreement to benefit from the block exemption under Article 4(b)(i) of the 2010 Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (the VBER)1, notably the so-called ‘parallel imposition requirement’.
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