23 Dec, 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...
20 Dec, 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...
17 Dec, 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...
13 Dec, 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...
10 Dec, 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...
09 Dec, 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...
09 Dec, 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...
05 Dec, 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)...
02 Dec, 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...