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View our subscription optionsBy Anke Holtland, Jacobine van Beijeren The Dutch Data Protection Authority published its decision last week to impose a processing ban on the Minister of Finance for the processing of Citizen Service Numbers ( BSNs ) in VAT identification numbers by the Tax Authorities. Background of the use of BSNs The Tax and Customs Administration is charged with providing VAT […]
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By Marc Wiggers, Thomas Verstraeten On 17 December 2018, the European Commission (‘Commission’) announced that it had imposed an antitrust fine of EUR 40 million on clothing company Guess for illegally restricting its resellers from using the Guess brand names and trademarks for the purposes of online search advertising and making cross-border sales of Guess […]
By Stéphanie De Smedt, Alice Boulvain. Aleksandra Sanak The EU Geo-blocking Regulation applies since 3 December 2018. It impacts many businesses that sell their goods and services online or offline across the EU, including companies offering food supplements or (over-the-counter) medicines, who now need to make sure they comply with these new rules.
By Bas Dieleman, Robin van der Ham, Laurie Kuijpers The Senate adopted the bill for the implementation of Directive 2016/2341 / EU (“IORP II”) yesterday, on 18 December 2018. The intended date for the entry into force of IORP II is 1 January 2019. The implementation of IORP II leads to various changes to the […]
The introduction of the Code for Private Prosecutors aims to provide a benchmark for best practice, observe high standards of integrity and guidance on any challenges
After Brexit, current rules on jurisdiction and enforcement will no longer apply in the UK. It could take years to accede to the Lugano Convention, so what happens in the meantime?
By John Hamer, Debbie Jackson, Richard Naish, Daniel O’Gorman November’s news Investment Association publishes updated Principles of Remuneration On 1 November 2019, the Investment Association (IA) published updated Principles of Remuneration which set out investor expectations and best practice for executive remuneration. BEIS publishes recommendations following collapse of Thomas Cook On 4 November 2019, the […]
By Martin Scott, Paul Hargreaves On 5 December 2019 the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment following appeals against the decision of HHJ Stephen Davies in Zagora Management Ltd v Zurich Insurance Plc [2019] EWHC 140 (TCC). Save in one important respect, the Court of Appeal’s judgment essentially upheld the decision of HHJ Davies […]
Despite a recent survey suggesting channelisation in Portugal is moving in the right direction, one regulated operator wants the threat posed by unlicensed sites treated as a cyber crime. EGR Compliance puts the country’s online gambling market under the spotlight to investigate the extent of this scourge. Practically every regulated online gambling market faces unwanted […]
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Find out moreAlmost half of all the lawyers at the companies in the current FTSE350 that have a UK-based in-house legal team work in the banking and finance sector, The Lawyer can reveal. According to data compiled for the new FTSE350 report, 40 per cent of the lawyers tracked at in-house teams in the UK work for […]
Firms serious about bagging the best graduate talent should take a look at Clifford Chance A few years back, a bunch of firms set up events for first-year law undergraduates – a group long ignored on the milkround in favour of second and third-years. We predicted what seemed like the obvious conclusion: the war for […]
A pair of US firms have advised on the takeover bid of haulage company Eddie Stobart as its shareholders have approved its rescue by asset manager DBAY Advisors. King & Spalding’s London corporate partners William Charnley and Marcus Young advised Eddie Stobart, which had to secure £55m bailout funding from Douglas Bay Advisors, on the […]
South African firm ENSafrica and Allen & Overy are leading on the business recovery of one of Africa’s largest airlines, South African Airways, saving it from collapse. ENSafrica’s chairman Michael Katz is leading for the airline on behalf of the National Treasury of South Africa, which manages its national economic policy. South African Airways is […]
Jones Day is to shut its doors in Moscow, The Lawyer understands, after setting up in Russia 16 years ago. The decision means the US firm will no longer have a fixed presence in the country, with the closure expected later this year. Jones Day initially entered the Russian legal market back in 2003, with a total […]
Mayer Brown’s managing partner Jeremy Clay is backing a new global innovation plan to trial new technologies.
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