Effectively managing corporate compliance efforts in today’s regulatory environment–preventing corporate officers and employee from engaging in illegal practices, while also addressing a wide array of other compliance and risk management concerns–presents a major challenge to multinational companies with extended enterprises. Although enforcement guidelines around the world vary in length, tone…
Various countries and their compliance-enforcing agencies request that companies have “adequate” compliance programs and organizations. But what does…
European Union regulators plan to open a year-long extensive investigation into e-commerce as part of their efforts to…
Boston Scientific Medizintechnik GmbH v AOK Sachsen-Anhalt – Die Gesundheitskasse. Joined Cases C-503/13 and C-504/13 This is a rare example of a major product liability dispute being referred to the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”). The two issues to be decided by the ECJ were: a) Whether a medical device…
On 12 February 2015, Advocate General (AG) Kokott published her non-binding opinion in a preliminary ruling referred to the…
In late 2014, the trade associations for the Med-Tech and Diagnostics industries in Europe have recommended phasing out…
At today’s meeting of the European Foreign Affairs Council (“FAC”), the EU reiterated its readiness to designate “spoilers of the dialogue process in line with the UNSCR 2174 which allows for the listing of individuals who threaten the peace, stability or security in Libya, or who undermine its political transition.” The FAC…
On December 17, 2014, EU law makers within the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers have reached…
Baker & McKenzie has released its first global client survey on Social Media. Based on the responses from international…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on December 2, 2014 released its first-ever analysis of anti-bribery on a global scale. 427 transnational bribery cases that occurred between February 1999 and June 2014 were reviewed. The key findings are: Almost two-thirds of cases occurred in four sectors: mining (19%);…