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Appeal of CFI judgment on legal professional privilege

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 27 2008

Akzo Nobel and Ackros Chemicals have appealed a Court of First Instance (CFI) judgment upholding a Commission decision that documents seized during an investigation are not protected by legal professional privilege

CESR publishes comments received to its draft advice on the equivalence of Chinese, Japanese and US GAAPs

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 3 2008

The Committee of European Securities Regulators has published the comments it has received to its draft advice on the equivalence of Chinese, Japanese and US GAAPs

Aer Lingus’s request for interim measures rejected

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 16 2008

The Court of First Instance (CFI) has rejected an injunction application by Aer Lingus requesting that Ryanair refrain from exercising its voting rights in the company pending the outcome of an action for annulment of the European Commission decision that refused to order Ryanair to divest its 29.4 shareholding following Ryanair’s blocked acquisition attempt

Rome II - cross border contracts and international litigation

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • February 18 2009

Regulation (EC) No.8642007, or “Rome II”, came into force on 11 January 2009 and has direct effect in all EU Member States (except Denmark

Harmonisation of approach to the applicable law in tort

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 14 2008

The Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to non contractual obligations (EU Council Regulation (EC) No. 8642007) was published in July 2007 and will apply in all member states other than Denmark from 11th January 2009

EU clamps down on unfair practices

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • European Union, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom
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  • August 15 2007

The complex patchwork of different national legislation relating to unfair commercial practices adds cost to those who market goods and services in multiple jurisdictions and can be a deterrent from entering new markets

No privilege for in-house counsel and non-European lawyers under EU competition law

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 14 2008

In Akzo Nobel Chemicals Limited & Akros Chemicals Limited v Commission of the European Communities (T-12503), the European Court of First Instance (CFI) refused to extend the scope of legal professional privilege to communications between parties and their in-house counsel in the context of EU competition law

EU Shareholders' Rights Directive: formal approval and a further consultation on supplementary measures

  • Bircham Dyson Bell
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  • European Union
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  • May 30 2007

With the current focus on the implementation of the 2006 Act, it is easy to overlook the progress through the European Parliament of the European Commission's Directive on Shareholders' Rights (the Directive

The EU Service Directive - how prepared are you?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union
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  • June 28 2007

Professional services associations across the European Union were asked by the European Commission earlier this month to take part in a survey on the question of codes of conduct

In-house counsel: protect your documents

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 3 2008

The widely criticised judgment of the CFI in Akzo Nobel v Commission limited the scope of privilege for in-house legal counsel and company documents