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FTC Safe Harbor enforcement action

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 11 2009

On 31 July 2009, the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) obtained a temporary restraining order from the US District Court for the Central District of California against a company that allegedly claimed to have self-certified to the U.S. Safe Harbor program

European Commission will discuss copyright system in Europe and digitisation of books

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • November 11 2009

By means of "Google Book Search" Google has started to digitalise all the books in the world, making parts of the books available through its website

Dutch Supreme Court: US performing artists are entitled to private copying levy ("Thuiskopievergoeding")

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • November 16 2009

Last Friday, the Dutch Supreme Court rendered a ground-breaking decision in the De Stichting ThuiskopieNorma-Irda case

Investment management group

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • September 28 2010

This is to alert you that the U.S. has recently introduced legislation that may subject non-U.S. investment funds with U.S. investors to stringent U.S. compliance andor reporting requirements

Recognition of a U.S. class action settlement in the Netherlands

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • August 26 2010

A Dutch court recognised the judgment by a U.S. court approving a worldwide class action settlement under U.S. law, thereby barring class members who did not opt out from ever bringing a claim against the defendants anywhere in the world

Converium: Dutch court has jurisdiction to declare an international collective settlement of mass claims binding

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • November 16 2010

On 12 November 2010, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal delivered an important decision regarding an international collective settlement of mass claims using the Shell decision as a precedent

Cyber crime

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • July 12 2011

In May 2011, a group of U.S. lawmakers called on SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro to issue guidance and apply enforcement in respect of disclosure requirements of listed companies confronted with (material) cyber crime attacks

FCPA: an employee of a state-owned corporation as "foreign official"

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 12 2011

The broad scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") has been highlighted in a recent US court ruling

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2011

US legislators adopted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (the "FATCA") on 18 March 2010

2011 FCPA enforcement actions reach second-highest level

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

Last year enforcement statistics gathered by the law firm Gibson Dunn show that the number enforcement actions initiated by US regulators relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") reached their second-highest level in 74 years

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