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Mexico added to UK Open General License for export controls following Wassenaar accession

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Global, Mexico, United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 20 2012

Earlier this year Mexico became a member of the Wassenaar Arrangement for multilateral military and dual-use controls

Mind your own businesses: UK court decision may signal pushback on extraterritorial enforcement of US trade laws

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 24 2011

Under a recent court decision, UK government agencies may be able to shield the names of British companies transacting in Iran, and thereby aid these companies in averting potential consequences of U.S. law

About face: Lancôme's airbrushed makeup ads banned in the UK

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 29 2011

Makeup ads in the UK for products by L'Oreal have been banned after the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority ("ASA") deemed the airbrushing used in post-production to be misleading to consumers

The Ministry of Justice issues long-awaited guidance on the U.K. Bribery Act

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 18 2011

On March 30, 2011, the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) Ministry of Justice (“MOJ”) issued its long-awaited guidance on the U.K. Bribery Act (the “Guidance”), the U.K.’s answer to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and domestic bribery laws

U.K.'s sweeping anti-corruption legislation increases risk for businesses

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 17 2010

The United Kingdom's answer to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") has arrived

The long arm of the Crown: new U.K. anti-bribery law reaches private sector bribery and creates offence of "failing to prevent" bribery

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 14 2010

The U.K. Bribery Act 2010 (the “Act”) represents a fundamental reform of the U.K. anti-bribery regime and greatly expands the potential legal exposure of companies and individuals that do business, including practice of a trade or profession, in the U.K

Smells like trademark protection: copycat perfumes cannot engage in comparative advertising, on odor of the court

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2010

L'Oreal scored a major victory in trademark protection against smell-alike perfumes this past month in England's Court of Appeal

A new approach to FCPA enforcement - can the FCA be far behind?

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 19 2010

2010 is promising to be a banner year for enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"

English High Court strikes out "class action" against British Airways

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2009

On April 8, 2009, the Chancellor of the High Court (who is the head of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales) granted an application by British Airways ("BA") to strike out the representative element of a claim for damages arising from its alleged participation in an air cargo cartel

International highlights

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • Belgium, Canada, Chile, European Union, France, United Kingdom
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  • May 6 2008

On May 5, the European Commission announced that it had sent a statement of objections to a number of suppliers of marine hoses