28 Dec, 2019 Alleged Janitor Espionage Fails to Show Hard Facts Necessary for OCI By Kenneth Weckstein How many times in movies, books, or television have we seen the scenario where the bad guy (or good guy) has to gain access to a top...
06 Dec, 2019 Trade Alert: Australia By Iden Asl AUSTRALIA Australia's four biggest banks - Westpac, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia - hold AUD...
12 Nov, 2019 Claridge’s Hotel Limited v Claridge Candles Limited & Denise Shepherd [2019] EWHC 2003 (IPEC) By Brown Rudnick Peter Willsey In a recent decision of the UK's Intellectual Property Enterprise Court ("IPEC") Claridge’s Hotel Limited ("Claridge's"), the owner of...
06 Nov, 2019 EU Whistleblowing Directive By Brown Rudnick Introduction On 7 October 2019, the European Council adopted the Whistleblower Protection Directive (the "Directive") on protecting...
05 Nov, 2019 Brexit delayed for a third time as UK general election looms By Mark Dorff Thomas Braiden Nicholas Davies As we have reported previously, the result of the European Union referendum (Brexit) was announced on 24 June 2016 with a vote in favour...
31 Oct, 2019 Trade Alert: Switzerland By Iden Asl SWITZERLAND Reuters reported that Switzerland’s economic growth decelerated in the second quarter of 2019 to 0.3 per cent from a...
28 Oct, 2019 Alert: First Successful Removal from the US Treasury’s “Kremlin List” of Russian Oligarchs By Neill Shrimpton Elena Rey On 11 September 2019 the US Treasury issued a letter to Dr Valentin Gaponstev, one of the individuals listed on its so-called “Kremlin...
03 Oct, 2019 Alert: Brown Rudnick’s M&A Litigation Trial Victory Highlights the Difficulty of Shifting the Costs of Post-Closing Business Decisions onto the Seller By Mark Baldwin Dylan Kletter Anthony Boccamazzo In a recent case captioned Project Boat Holdings, LLC v. Bass Pro Group, LLC, Brown Rudnick’s M&A litigation team obtained a trial...
01 Oct, 2019 Trade Alert: The Netherlands By Iden Asl THE NETHERLANDS The property market in the Netherlands is booming, with real house prices in Amsterdam rising 64 per cent in the five...
24 Sep, 2019 Client Alert: Department of Labor Announces More Stringent Test for Exemption from Overtime Pay By Shlomo Katz The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires that non-exempt or “overtime-eligible” employees be paid one and one-half times...
14 Sep, 2019 Being a Not for Profit Company Does Not Avoid Affiliation for Size Purposes By Kenneth Weckstein Size protests stemming from corporate affiliation between subsidiaries, sister companies, and owners are common. Less common are size...
02 Sep, 2019 Trade Alert: Greece By Iden Asl GREECE Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on 27 August 2019 that "from today, capital controls are a thing of the past"....
01 Aug, 2019 Trade Alert: Czech Republic By Iden Asl CZECH REPUBLIC Andrej Babiš’ government survived a second no confidence vote on 27 June 2019, following an initial call for a vote of no...
02 Jul, 2019 Brown Rudnick CIS Briefing, Edition No. 2 – July 2019 By Neill Shrimpton Elena Rey Tatneft ordered to pay security for costs due to real risk of substantial obstacles to costs enforcement in Russia In a recent High Court...
28 Jun, 2019 Trade Alert: Romania By Iden Asl Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat) ("PSD") survived a Parliamentary no confidence vote on 18 June 2019....
05 Jun, 2019 Summary Of Key Changes To The LSTA Trading Documentation (May 17, 2019) And Comparison To LMA Position By Linda Marcus Louisa Watt Iden Asl The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (the "LSTA") published revised trading documentation on May 17, 2019 (the "Publication...