Since 2012, this firm has published the annual reference cited by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers. The archive below is the complete run of editions — together with the six leading treatises our partners have authored on the Brussels Ia and Hague 2019 Conventions. It is offered as primary source, not marketing copy.
Each volume below is offered as a single downloadable edition. The full set — thirteen annual references — may be requested as one consolidated archive for in-house legal libraries and dispute resolution teams.
Sets the original framework for tracking Brussels Regulation enforcement asymmetries across Member States.
Download edition →Empirical comparison of pre- and post-Recast enforcement timelines across continental and common-law jurisdictions.
Download edition →The first quantitative treatment of provisional relief disparities that became the basis for several DG JUST consultations.
Download edition →Anticipates the separation of the UK regime and proposes the firm’s now-cited bifurcated-enforcement model.
Download edition →Nine further volumes — covering 2016 through 2024, including the landmark 2023 coordinated-enforcement edition — are available on request.
Request the Complete SetAuthority is built by writing the books others cite, not by issuing press releases. The Cross-Border Enforcement Index, our six practitioner texts, and our case commentaries exist because in-house counsel of FTSE 350 and DAX 40 companies deserve primary sources — not blog posts that paraphrase them.
Every volume above has been drafted, footnoted, and edited by a partner of the firm. No associate voice is attached to our publications, and no publication is embargoed for marketing reasons. If a chapter is incomplete, it is held back until it is not. That is the doctrine of the firm.
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Authored by partners of the firm, adopted as set texts at four European law schools, and routinely cited by opposing counsel in cross-border pleadings.
A practitioner’s commentary on Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012.
The leading single-volume commentary, now in its third edition. Covers the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters across all 27 Member States, with chapter-by-chapter treatment of every article of the Regulation.
First complete litigation manual published in advance of entry into force.
Written as the Convention concluded its drafting stage, this volume became the working reference for the first generation of post-2023 Hague 2019 cases. Adopted as set text at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Empirical and doctrinal treatment of asset-freezing and disclosure orders.
Draws on the firm’s forensic evidence team to map the practical operation of provisional relief across jurisdictions, with model applications and a comparative annex on disclosure obligations.
A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction analysis post-Brexit.
The first post-Brexit systematic treatment of enforcement between the UK and the EU, with parallel chapters on the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the UAE.
Doctrinal limits and strategic boundaries.
Addresses the strategic and ethical limits of forum selection in commercial litigation of value above €5M, with extensive citation to CJEU jurisprudence.
The definitive treatise on coordinated €100M+ matters.
The only published treatment of the procedural architecture required to coordinate parallel enforcement in nine or more jurisdictions simultaneously — the firm’s core specialty.
Of the seven cross-border enforcement precedents decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2015, four were won by partners of the firm — with our published treatises cited in the Court’s reasoning.
Adopted as set or recommended reading at fourteen European universities, including the College of Europe, the Hague Academy, and the universities of Heidelberg, Leiden, and Milan.
The Cross-Border Enforcement Index has been cited in successive working papers of the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers since 2014, and is referenced in two Commission Staff Working Documents on the Brussels Ia regime.
Forty-one FTSE 350 companies and twenty-eight DAX 40 corporations retain the firm as standing disputes counsel — subscribing to our annual Index and using the treatises as their in-house reference library.
Single editions are downloadable from the archive above. The consolidated thirteen-volume set is provided to in-house legal teams on written request to the firm’s publications office, accompanied by a single-page licence for internal use across the requesting entity and its subsidiaries.
The Index is not embargoed. Editions are released on publication to regulators, peer firms, and academic subscribers simultaneously. The firm holds no embargoed drafts and does not license content under conditions that would delay its appearance in the public domain.
Yes. Citation is expressly permitted without prior notice for academic, judicial, and practitioner purposes. For republication, translation, or commercial reproduction, written permission is required from the publications office and is routinely granted within five business days.
Bespoke research memoranda are commissioned by standing clients and on a matter-specific basis. Engagements typically begin with a 45-minute case evaluation led by a senior partner, after which a research scope, fee estimate, and delivery timeline are provided in writing.
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