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Issue 93, January 70

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Out and about

As the first decade of the 21st century drew to a close, one of the business world’s recent shibboleths was beginning to unr

  • Boardroom perspective

      • Video nasty

        Delegates attending legal profession conferences are not usually treated to a film screening, but the exclusive video aired at IBC&rsqu

  • Comment

      • The road ahead

        Europe’s independent law firms must adapt or die Charles-Henri de Pardieu

      • CCBE plenary

        Irish fail in bid for CCBE agreement on downturn Attempts by the leaders of Ireland’s solicitors to assemble a unified Europ

      • Riding out the Russian storm

        Riding out the Russian storm

        Russian Federation

        The financial crisis has arguably been more of a rollercoaster ride in Russia than in any other European jurisdiction. In the early par

      • Take, take, take

        Sweden

        The Nordic countries have a long-established corporate practice of using different classes of shares to form control-oriented corporate

      • The party’s over

        Private equity

        European private equity looks set to be tangled in a restrictive array of largely misconceived bureaucracy. Investors – or limite

      • Fasten your seat belts

        Fasten your seat belts

        Aviation

        Airlines have been flying through the global financial tempest with apparent gusto. The latest to push for merger are British Airways &

      • Justice before age

        Aviation

        Throughout the three decades that I have been actively involved in trying to facilitate the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, I have o

  • Country profile

      • Passive aggression

        Passive aggression

        Italy

        A law providing new rules for takeover bids on Italian listed companies was enacted at the beginning of autumn last year (Legislati

      • Patently Parisian

        Patently Parisian

        France

        Traditionally in France, jurisdiction on patent litigation is given to a limited number of first instance courts, derogating from gener

      • Taking a chance

        Belgium

        During the night of 3-4 December 2009 the Belgian Parliament adopted a federal law that modifies the current 1999 legislation on games

      • The working life

        Estonia

        Last July saw the launch of a new era in Estonian employment law, as the long-awaited Employment Contracts Act finally came into force.

      • Pain after the gain

        Latvia
        Tax

        Latvians have been coaxed, cajoled and even threatened on an almost daily basis for at least the past six months by a multitude of offe