France’s Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, presented the framework of a bill which would create a new anti-corruption authority and introduce U.S.-style monitorships into French law.
On 9 October 2014, the new Belgian federal government announced, in its coalition agreement for the coming term, its intention to introduce a regime of tax transparency for the income of trusts and other foreign legal arrangements (the so-called Cayman Tax).
The Higher Regional Court in Munich ruled that the management of a parent company may have a supervisory duty which is not limited to the partent company itself, but which extends to the group of companies.
Did you ever wonder why your company lost a lawsuit although the merits of the case were on your side? Did you ever ask yourself whether your company could have reached better results when dealing with government authorities? Would you like to take advantage of the psychological effects on individuals…
The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them…
A new U.K. unit will investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries. The International Corruption Unit will…
It is our pleasure to present the first edition of Baker McKenzie’s Global Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws Handbook (“Handbook”). Given the success of last year’s Overview of Anti-Bribery Laws in EMEA, we have now expanded our coverage to legislation and developments in 47 jurisdictions this year. We appreciate that it…
The UK Serious Fraud Office’s annual report for the year ended March 31, 2015 reports, among other things,…
The German parliament, the Bundestag, has adopted the new IT Security Act. It requires operators of critical infrastructures…
This article summarizes the anti-corruption developments in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) during the first half of 2015. Recent trends in the EMEA region concern, above all, a strong dynamics to tighten legal provisions on anti-corruption legislation in the light of international recommendations by OECD and UN;…