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Issue No 94Bookmark PagePrint Page
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Boardroom perspective
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Web of trouble
The murky debate over when internet service providers should pull items from their platforms, and when they should not, came to the for
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Comment
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War! What is it good for?
Nearly six years after the US-led invasion of Iraq on 2 February 2009, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende appointed retired Supr
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Shock of the new
For years, the relationship between corporate in-house counsel and their external private practice legal advisers has been straightforw
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Unifying force
As a teenage exchange student in the UK, Eberhard Braun found himself at a school event where he came face to face with Sir Alec Dougla
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Truth and reconciliation
Black South Africans still wait for a measure of justice from global corporations that knowingly aided apartheid South Africa’s m
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All eyes on budgets
Corporate clients must change years of ingrained behaviour if they are to get the best results – and value – from their ext
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Getting the boot
Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have seen an explosion in demand for legal services over the past five
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A source of good?
Thousands of miles from the heartland of continental Europe, tucked up in gleaming glass office buildings sitting incongruously on the
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Carrying on
Eight-year-old French administrative guidelines have created a specific tax regime for holders of ‘carried interest’ units
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On-line flutters
The Interstate Treaty on Gambling (ITG), which came into force at the beginning of January 2008, forms the centre of Germany&rs
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Taxing Times
Ireland
Financial services regulationThe Irish Finance Bill – published at the beginning of last month and scheduled for enactment in early April – contains dra
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Remaining barriers
EU Directive 2006/123/CE – passed at the end of 2006 – was drafted with the intention of improving the single market for se
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Backing the banks
The global economic crisis has made a significant impact on Latvia’s economy since the end of 2007. The crisis triggered the near
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Country profile
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Paradiso Perso
It is tempting in Western Europe to assume that difficulties with the rule of law are the problems of the east, as developing democraci
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Features
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Court Kick Off
South Africa
IP/Technology/MediaSport is big business, representing more than 3 per cent of world trade. And football is not only the world’s favourite gam
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Shifting sands
Long after the major tremors have subsided, the aftershocks of the worst financial earthquake for a generation will continue to ripple
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Head to head
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Far Enough
Spain
Financial services regulationCompared with the diffused nature of Spain’s previous insolvency legal framework, the current Spanish Insolvency Act is based on
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Another Step
The Spanish Insolvency Law attempts to reconcile two conflicting goals: on the one hand, the traditional aim pursued by formal insolven
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In brief
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Globalisation to take off
A fresh wave of litigation is set to begin rolling once the financial crisis has faded, a leading professional sector consultancy forec
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The Big Deals
Leading German independent law firm Hengeler Mueller advised on two substantial deals over the last month – with the first involv
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Around Europe
Europe
Financial services regulationUS global law firm Dechert has raided UK competitor Clifford Chance’s German operation to poach financial services specialist law
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Transatlantic dialogue
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Justice begins at home
The exact location of Europe’s borders has been an enduring neurosis of the EU. This is understandable considering how rece
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Targeting business and freedom
It is a law that has travelled around the world and imposed billions of dollars in costs on international companies. It has
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