Recht und Verbraucherschutz/Gesetzentwurf Die Bundesregierung will das Recht der internationalen strafrechtlichen Zusammenarbeit umfassend neu ordnen.

Recht und Verbraucherschutz/Gesetzentwurf Der Einsatz von K.o.-Tropfen bei Sexual- und Raubdelikten soll laut Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung künftig schärfer bestraft werden. Der Bundesrat warnt vor Anwendungsschwierigkeiten.

Recht und Verbraucherschutz/Antwort Deutschland hat 2025 insgesamt 72.991 Strafnachrichten über rechtskräftige Verurteilungen türkischer Staatsangehöriger an die Türkei übermittelt, so die Antwort die Bundesregierung auf Linken-Anfrage.

Mexico: El 30 de agosto de 2026, la Presidenta Claudia Scheinbaum, a través de la Secretaría de Gobernación, presentó al Senado una iniciativa (la “Iniciativa”), para reformar la Ley de Inversión Extranjera (la “LIE”).

Mexico: On August 30, 2026, President Claudia Sheinbaum, through the Ministry of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación), submitted to the Senate a bill of amendment (the “Bill”) proposing amendments to the Foreign Investment Law (Ley de Inversión Extranjera, the “LIE”).

Global law firm Dentons has advised DEK a.s., one of the leading building materials and construction services groups in the Czech Republic, on the sale of 100% of the shares in its subsidiaries STACHEMA Kolín s.r.o. in the Czech Republic and STACHEMA Bratislava a.s. in Slovakia to Saint-Gobain Construction Products CZ a.s., part of the global Saint-Gobain group.

Global law firm Dentons has advised DEK a.s., one of the leading building materials and construction services groups in the Czech Republic, on the sale of 100% of the shares in its subsidiaries STACHEMA Kolín s.r.o. in the Czech Republic and STACHEMA Bratislava a.s. in Slovakia to Saint-Gobain Construction Products CZ a.s., part of the global Saint-Gobain group.

Canada: This Insight summarizes the current activism landscape, recent regulatory and judicial developments and the defensive tools available to Canadian boards.

Hong Kong: On 25 August 2026, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data ("PCPD") published Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework — Protecting Personal Data Privacy in the Use of Agentic AI ("Guidance"). The Guidance supplements the PCPD's 2024 Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework and provides practical recommendations for organisations deploying or considering deploying agentic AI that are "data users" under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) ("PDPO").

Dentons announces today that Chad Higgins has been named managing partner of the Firm’s Portland, Maine, office.

United Kingdom: The Building Safety Levy in England is due to come into force on 1 October 2026, bringing new costs and requirements for residential development. With implementation approaching, this note answers some of the key questions for those likely to be affected.

United Kingdom: In the third alert in our Procurement and Competition Law series, we examine the use of framework agreements, which have long been a feature of UK public procurement and remain an important purchasing tool under the Procurement Act 2023 ("PA23").

Nigeria: In 2022, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (“FRC”) declared its intention to adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards Sustainability Disclosure Standards (“IFRS SDS”) issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (“ISSB”) – the global baseline for sustainability reporting.

Dentons Hong Kong has advised China Merchants Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust (SEHK: 1503) on its HK$528.5 million acquisition of Nos.470, 472, 474, 476 and 478 Chatham Road North (now known as The Quad), a 25-storey building situated near Ho Man Tin and To Kwa Wan, Kowloon.

New Zealand: The Planning Bill (PB) and the Natural Environment Bill (NEB) have now completed the ‘Committee of the whole House’ debate stage. This is the stage of the law-making process when Bills (and any Government or Opposition amendment papers) are debated and voted on, part by part. In this case it occurred under urgency for some 30 hours between the evening of Tuesday 25 August and midday Friday 28 August.

New Zealand: The finish line for the Government’s resource management reforms is now in sight. The Planning Bill (PB) and Natural Environment Bill (NEB), which will replace the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), have progressed through the Committee of the Whole House and are on track to be enacted in September 2026.