Move of the week Dentons’ former co-chief executive Howard Morris has joined Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) as head of business restructuring and insolvency in London. Morris, who practices in corporate recovery and insolvency, resigned from his post as global integration partner at Dentons earlier this year. His role at MoFo is a new one. […]
Commons committee pushes for tighter controls on internet piracy and slams the Hargreaves report The revelation that Google has removed more than 200 million piracy links from its search engine results this year will hopefully assuage the concerns of the House of Common’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which recently singled out the company in […]
Lawyers have been pivotal in the preparations for the Winter Olympics and the work could go on way beyond the closing ceremony The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games are now just a matter of months away. The Olympic torch has been sent into space and will be coming back down to complete its journey to […]
India boasts key advantages over China and with a step-up in foreign investment, lawyers believe the country can overtake its Asian rival Britain was not the only place to see firework displays on 5 November this year. Amid the festivities surrounding Diwali there was further reason to cheer in India, as the country launched a […]
A great irony of western business life is that while the three-martini (in New York) or bottle-of-claret (in London) lunch has historically been perfectly acceptable and often positively encouraged, rolling a quick spliff triggers harrumphs of consternation from bosses. Indeed, as our commentators from Anglo-US global law firm DLA Piper point out, despite 20 US […]
By Sophie Wilkinson The registration period for the initial phase of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme opened on 4 November 2013, and those affected have until 31 January 2014 to register with the Environment Agency. Registration requirements for the initial phase — which runs from April 2014 to March 2019 — are different to those for […]
By Andrew Ball and Donna Trembath After two years, two drafts and two rounds of public consultation, Safe Work Australia has determined to release its draft Code of Practice on Preventing and Responding to Workplace Bullying in the form of a guide. While the bullying guide will not have the same legal force as a […]
The recently announced voluntary bank disclosure programme between Switzerland and the US offers worried Swiss banks the possibility of peace of mind from future prosecution. The question now confronting Swiss banks is whether to take advantage of this programme and, if so, how best to enter the programme. While these decisions are, of course, extremely […]
By Caroline Atkins This article discusses how Australian government agencies can gain the commercial solutions they need in ICT procurement while avoiding the pitfalls of open-source licence risks. With government agencies trying to implement savings in innovative ICT procurement, the increased utilisation of open source, or indeed replacing proprietary software with open source, is a significant […]
By Stewart K Diana and Battushig Batsuren The Great Hural, Mongolia’s Parliament, has ratified a new investment law, already in effect since 1 November, that dramatically alters the investment landscape in Mongolia. ‘The new investment law is one of the first steps in reversing the current slowdown of Mongolia’s economy and increasing the inflow of […]
By Robert E Connolly, Nisha Menon and Joywin Mathew Competition law in India has begun to take shape as major enforcement actions involving a host of industries have worked their way from initial complaint to a finding of an infringement and appeal to the Supreme Court of India. The Indian Competition Act 2002 was enacted to ‘promote […]
By Eric D Ryan and Anil John Kalia In a recent internal legal memorandum (ILM), the IRS concluded that a US individual was entitled to treat dividends received from a Cypriot holding company with no Cypriot ownership as qualified dividend income (QDI) and is thereby eligible for reduced US income tax rates. Cyprus, a member of the […]