Brown Rudnick Insights

12/28/2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

12/6/2019 3:53:00 PM

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...

11/18/2019 12:12:00 PM

Uncovering Fraud: First Response

By Jane Colston

Partner Jane Colston published a special report featured in the December 2019 issue of Financier Worldwide Magazine. "Crisis hits. One...

11/12/2019 4:41:00 AM

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...

11/6/2019 3:51:00 PM

EU Whistleblowing Directive

By Brown Rudnick

Introduction On 7 October 2019, the European Council adopted the Whistleblower Protection Directive (the "Directive") on protecting...

11/5/2019 3:50:00 PM

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...

10/31/2019 3:49:00 PM

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...

10/28/2019 3:48:00 PM

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...

10/18/2019 11:15:00 AM

Didier Bruere-Dawson and Pierre-Alain Bouhenic Featured in Le Figaro

By Brown Rudnick

Partners Didier Bruere-Dawson and Pierre-Alain Bouhenic discuss new fundings (players, sources, methodologies, securities, etc.) in...

10/3/2019 2:48:00 PM

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...

10/1/2019 2:47:00 PM

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...

9/27/2019 10:44:00 AM

Commercial Fraud Litigation – London Pow-wow, June 2019

By Jane Colston Jessica Lee

Commercial fraud is a continuing global menace costing hundreds of billions every year. Crimes such as money laundering, asset...

9/24/2019 2:47:00 PM

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...

9/14/2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

9/2/2019 2:46:00 PM

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"....

8/1/2019 2:45:00 PM

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...