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...
18 Nov, 2019 Uncovering Fraud: First Response By Jane Colston Joanna Curtis Partners Jane Colston, Anupreet Amole and associate Joanna Curtis recently published a special report featured in the December 2019 issue...
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...
18 Oct, 2019 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...
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...
30 Sep, 2019 What Are You Doing to Promote Diversity? – IBA Litigation Newsletter By Brown Rudnick Partner Jane Colston was quoted in the IBA Litigation Newsletter article by Katrina Crossley from the International Law Book Facility...
30 Sep, 2019 IBA Litigation Newsletter Editors’ Note – Jane Colston By Jane Colston The IBA Litigation Newsletter - published by the IBA and released during the IBA’s annual conference in Seoul - is curated and edited by...
27 Sep, 2019 Commercial Fraud Litigation – London Pow-wow, June 2019 By Jane Colston Joanna Curtis Jessica Lee Commercial fraud is a continuing global menace costing hundreds of billions every year. Crimes such as money laundering, asset...
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...