CJEU Grand Chamber, 17 March 2026 — Case C‑8/24 We are seeing a sharp increase in cross-border asset freezing and confiscation requests  reaching our clients across Europe. Foreign confiscation orders — transmitted under Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 — are being enforced faster, broader, and with less scrutiny than ever before. Clients are waking up to find their bank accounts frozen, their shares blocked, their businesses paralysed — on the basis of proceedings conducted in anot