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2010 Bribery Act: commercial applicability

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 1 2011

The Bribery Act 2010 (Act), heralded as the toughest anti-corruption legislation in the world, comes into force today in the United Kingdom

Deregulation of public offering prospectus requirements

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 1 2011

The Prospectus Regulations 20111668 (the Regulations) came into force in the United Kingdom (the UK) on 31 July 2011, allowing companiesparticularly smaller onesto raise equity finance more cost-efficiently

OECD report on the UK’s anti-bribery framework

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 10 2012

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a report (the Report) on the implementation and application in the United Kingdom (UK) of the OECD Convention on Combating The Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (the Convention

ICGN political contributions best practice guidelines echo UK Bribery Act principles

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global, United Kingdom
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  • March 27 2012

The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) has published best practice guidelines on political contributions (the Guidelines

Corporate reporting on anti-bribery and corruption measures

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Global
  • -
  • July 16 2012

Transparency International (TI), the global organisation against corruption, has published a policy study, Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World's Largest Companies

UK government’s consultation on the proposed Common European Sales law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 23 2012

The European Commission (Commission) estimates that contract law barriers deter businesses from conducting at least 26 billion in intra-European Union (EU) trade every year

Consultation on EU company law framework

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • February 24 2012

The European Commission recently launched an in-depth consultation designed to review the EU company law framework with an emphasis on developing it for the future in light of the current economic, social and political climate

FSA consultation on proposed changes to UK Listing Rules: new definitions and individual guidance

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 14 2012

The UK Financial Services Authority (the FSA) recently published a Consultation Paper CP125 (No. 32) (the Consultation) which includes, among other proposals, a number of proposed changes to Chapter 11 of the UK Listing Rules (LR) and Chapter 9 of the Supervision Manual (SUP

Bribery Act 2010: UK Serious Fraud Office publishes revised policies on facilitation payments, business expenditure and corporate self-reporting

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 19 2012

The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has issued revised statements of policy on facilitation payments, business expenditure (hospitality and gifts) and corporate self-reporting that will take immediate effect and supersede previous statements of policy or practice issued by the SFO

UK Department of Business, Innovations and Skills launches consultation on new narrative reporting structure for companies

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 31 2012

The UK Department of Business, Innovations and Skills (BIS) recently has launched the draft Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 (Proposed Regulations) for consultation