Dec 23, 2019 Internal investigations and transferring personal data within or out of the United Arab Emirates By Zara Merali Kim Rosenberg Does your company do business in the UAE? Might you carry out an internal investigation involving your UAE operations? Is your company at...
Dec 20, 2019 New under the Belgian code of companies and associations: the employment status of corporate mandate holders By Bruno Aguirre The new Belgian code of companies and associations (BCCA) entered into force on 1 May 2019 and immediately applied to all legal entities...
Dec 17, 2019 Geospatial data start-up infringes OS’s database rights and breaches licence terms By Alexandra Morgan Giles Pratt Zofia Aszendorf The UK High Court has ruled that 77m, a company which created a database linking geospatial information to residential and...
Dec 13, 2019 UK Pensions: Conservative majority paves the way for new criminal offences By Dawn Heath Tharusha Rajapakse Charles Smye Now that the election results have been confirmed, and the Conservative Party has secured a majority, we are expecting the Conservative...
Dec 10, 2019 Freshfields acts in first case regarding CMA’s exercise of directors disqualification powers for breaches of UK competition law By Deba Das On 10 December 2019, the High Court handed down its judgment in the first application under the Company Directors Disqualification Act...
Dec 09, 2019 ICC Task Force predicts climate change related disputes will increase exponentially By Amanda Neil Melissa Conway Emma Roberts The global response to climate change will involve the transformation of energy, land, urban, infrastructure and industrial systems, and...
Dec 09, 2019 Better enforcement of EU consumer law By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy While negotiations continue over the EU’s proposed new collective redress regime (see my recent blog on the subject), another key element...
Dec 05, 2019 Sooner and Softer: DOJ Aims To Encourage Earlier Self-Reporting By Mark Goldberg Kimberly Zelnick Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published revisions to its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
Dec 02, 2019 UK Pensions: will a new government potentially criminalise legitimate corporate activity? By Dawn Heath Tharusha Rajapakse Charles Smye With the general election taking place in less than two weeks’ time, the Conservative Party’s manifesto confirmed last week that, if...
Nov 28, 2019 EU "class actions": the Council finally plays its hand By Andrew Austin Back in April, my colleague Eugene and I posted about the slow progress of the EU’s new, and highly controversial, draft Directive on...
Nov 27, 2019 What’s next? The von der Leyen Commission’s ambitious plans for Europe... By Natalie Pettinger Kearney Christiaan Smits On 1 December, finally, the new European Commission will take office, after much back and forth with especially the European Parliament...
Nov 26, 2019 Dutch Court: no legal privilege for in-house counsel if GC is a member of management By Marco Vogels Last month, the Rotterdam District Court ruled that fifteen in-house lawyers of an oil major working in the Netherlands, Nigeria and the...