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Conflict minerals rule weekly recap 13 February 8, 2013

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Democratic Republic of Congo, European Union, Japan, USA
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  • February 18 2013

Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of computer printers

Getting started with M&A in the UK

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • Japan, United Kingdom
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  • September 13 2011

Mergers and acquisitions can be stressful

License agreements under the Japan Antimonopoly Act

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • Japan
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  • August 16 2011

In 2010 the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), which oversees enforcement of the Japan Antimonopoly Act, set a record high for total fines imposed in excess of US$875 million more than double the total fines imposed in 2009, and nearly triple the fines imposed in 2008

Companies' options to save on electricity after massive earthquake in Japan

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan
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  • July 13 2011

As a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Kanto and Tohoku regions of Japan have been suffering a serious electricity shortage

The Japanese Supreme Court’s recent rulings on television program copyrights and space-shifting

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan
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  • May 25 2011

In an ongoing battle between owners of television program copyrights and the entrepreneurs who develop innovative technologies to widely distribute their work to viewers, on January 18 and 20, 2011 the Supreme Court of Japan heard two cases involving the "space shifting" of streamed television programs, or the transfer of programs to remote receivers around the world for recording and viewing

Applicable federal rates and housing tax credit applicable percentages for August 2010

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan, USA
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  • July 26 2010

The US Treasury (Internal Revenue Service) issues a revenue ruling each month with interest rates

US Embassy in Japan issues new nonimmigrant online visa application form

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan, USA
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  • March 25 2010

The US Embassy in Japan has announced that it will require the use of the online Form DS-160, Nonimmigrant Visa Electronic Application, in place of the current nonimmigrant application Forms DS-156, DS-157 and DS-158 for all nonimmigrant visa applicants (regardless of age) who have an interview on or after March 29, 2010, except K (fiancée and certain spouses) visa applicants

Antimonopoly Act amendment passed

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Japan
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  • March 8 2010

Amendments to the Antimonopoly Act passed by the Japanese Diet last summer became effective on January 1, 2010

Commission gives conditional approval to acquisition of Sanyo by Panasonic

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Japan
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  • October 31 2009

On 29 September 2009, the Commission cleared the proposed acquisition of Sanyo Electric Company by the Panasonic Corporation in Japan in accordance with the EC Merger Regulation

China’s outbound investment: lessons from the past

  • Squire Sanders
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  • China, Japan, USA
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  • October 13 2009

Our world confronts a crisis in which the economic engines of the United States and Europe that have powered global development in recent decades have shuddered to a halt, and we look with both hope and trepidation to a new power rising in Asia