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Issue 112, January 70

The latest issue of Europe's leading monthly magazine for business lawyers.

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  • Boardroom perspective

      • Procuring the future

        You don’t have them on your speed-dial, you don’t have their mobile numbers, you are not connected to them on LinkedIn, Goo

      • Keeping the CFO happy

        The economic downturn has forced general counsel around the world to think like chief financial officers. No longer able to manage unli

  • Comment

      • Preparing for the worst

        Europe is on the brink of catching one hell of a cold. And having just been through a serious bout with a bug, there are concerns that

      • Whistleblowers tuning in to foreign cases

        Under a US law known as the False Claims Act, companies are responsible for the losses their wrongful conduct causes the US government.

      • Sweet charity

        Pro bono as a concept and activity is nothing new in the legal profession – lawyers have been donating their time and efforts to

  • Features

      • Getting to the top

        Companies have had to take stock of the lack of females on their boards as the number of countries adopting legislation grows ever long

      • What you lose on the swings…

        These are confusing times for biotechnology companies seeking to use the European patent system. On the one hand, the Court of Justice

      • Digital ubiquity

        Mobile media has integrated into our day-to-day lives, converging with social media and, in some cases, replacing other forms of commun

      • Managing resources

        Europe’s economy may well be going to hell in a handcart – with major countries having their credit ratings slashed, Britai

  • In brief

      • Around Europe

        France  Paris-based global law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel reshuffled its senior management at the end of last year, with 55-year-old

      • News in brief

        Last ritesLondon-based global giant Herbert Smith formally kicked the dirt over its decade-long association with two leading independen

  • Sections

      • More frightened than hurt

        France

        Under French tax law, companies acquiring shares of a target company in the course of a leveraged transaction can deduct from their tax

      • Supermarket shopping

        Europe’s Court of Justice has recently considered a long-standing principle regarding European jurisdiction that could have a pro

      • Good tidings

        Germany

        A few months ago the German parliament (Bundestag) voted in favour of the introduction of an insolvency law reform bill. The Ge

      • Tough competition

        Poland

        Companies planning to create joint ventures in Poland often get a nasty shock when the national competition authority not only rejects