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Employee stock plans: year-end international reporting requirements2012 update

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • January 11 2012

This Commentary highlights some of the principal calendar and year-end reporting requirements for employee stock plans that U.S. companies most commonly encounter when offering these programs to their employees in selected jurisdictions worldwide

Trends in FCPA and international anti-corruption enforcement

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, United Kingdom, USA
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  • April 27 2011

Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) reached unprecedented levels in 2010, as the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) levied double the financial penalties imposed in 2009

In 2010, climate change strategy shifted from comprehensive to piecemeal

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • January 11 2011

Inability to build consensus doomed efforts, at both the U.S. and international levels, to establish comprehensive climate change regulatory programs in 2010

U.S. and EU expand sanctions against Iran

  • Jones Day
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  • European Union, Global, USA
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  • August 31 2010

On June 9, 2010, responding to Iran's continued refusal to suspend its nuclear enrichment program and accept international safeguards, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1929

Carbon markets reflect uncertainty of greenhouse gas regulation

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • July 19 2010

At the close of trading on June 21, 2010, prices for a credit representing one metric ton of CO2e emissions continued to reflect significant variation across the carbon markets

Patent Prosecution Highways: accelerating the patent examination process

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 24 2010

To speed up the patent examination process, a set of Patent Prosecution Highways ("PPH" or "Patent Highways") has been launched in the recent past

OECD calls for an end to facilitating payments exception

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • December 30 2009

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") has called for a prohibition on facilitating payments (or "grease payments") currently permitted under the anti-corruption laws of several nations, including the United States

Global trends in consumer product safety reform

  • Jones Day
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  • Global, USA
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  • April 1 2009

Product recalls, especially of imported products, skyrocketed throughout the developed world in 2007 and 2008