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Technology: Google under challenge and what it means

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • April 25 2012

Across the world, the internet giant Google has been facing numerous competition law challenges in the courts and before competition authorities, generally triggered by complaints from competitors and advertisers

M&A - merger control changes worldwide

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Canada, Cuba, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • April 25 2012

Recent months have seen some significant changes, and proposed changes, to merger control rules across the world the rules governing the scrutiny by competition authorities of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures

Intellectual property rights and technology: the “smartphone” wars

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 25 2012

Across the globe, disputes have broken out between manufacturers of smartphones and tablet computers (such as Apple and Samsung) about “standards-essential patents”, and whether competition law limits their enforcement

Monitoring your employees’ use of technology

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, South Africa, United Kingdom
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  • December 20 2011

It has become increasingly common for organisations to incorporate the use of social media into their business strategies

German Restructuring Act

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Germany
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  • September 1 2010

On July 13 2010 the Federal Ministry of Finance (Bundesfinanzministerium) published an initial draft (Referentenentwurf) of the Restructuring Act (Restrukturierungsgesetz) (Act

Germany bans naked short selling

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 25 2010

Effective as of 19 May 2010 (midnight), the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht - BaFin) issued three decrees to stabilise the markets

Concession on protectionism?

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • France, Germany, USA
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  • May 11 2010

On 28 April 2010, Wolfgang Schauble and Christine Lagarde, the finance ministers of Germany and France respectively, published an article in the Wall Street Journal as an indirect response to letters received from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

Foreign companies agree to stay bribe-free

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Germany, Russia
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  • May 10 2010

A number of companies from the Russian-German Trade Chamber (e.g. Mercedes-Benz Rus, Siemens, Deutsche Bank) have committed to a Russia-focused ‘Initiative for implementing the principles of corporate ethics in the commercial activities in the Russian Federation’ and an international ‘Principles of fighting bribe-taking’

Ex-Siemens executives found guilty in bribery case

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 10 2010

A Munich court found two former managers of Siemens AG, the engineering company, guilty of breach of trust and abetting bribery for their roles in a corruption scandal that resulted in the company agreeing to pay US$1.3 billion to end corruption investigations in the US and Germany

Draft BaFin circular on prevention of fraudulent acts

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 3 2010

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a draft circular applicable to all credit institutions, financial services firms, investment management companies, payment institutions, financial holding companies and mixed financial holding companies in Germany and addresses the prevention of fraudulent acts

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