With the anticipated publication of the European General Data Protection Regulation in 2016, multi-national companies are beginning to assess how the new Regulation will affect their global data protection and privacy compliance programs.
The Commission has adopted amendments to a number of its key procedural rules in order to bring them…
In a noteworthy trend picked-up by Trace International’s Global Enforcement Report, in 2014 non-U.S. enforcement actions concerning bribery of…
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group) and Joanna Ludlam (Head of the Baker & McKenzie EMEA Compliance Practice Group) 10 questions about current compliance trends and developments. Here are their answers which every compliance professional should read attentively: Mini vandePol (Hong Kong)…
We rarely think about emergencies before they arrive on our doorstep. Yet, the recent civil unrest in Baltimore…
The European Commission’s Digital Single Market (“DSM”) agenda was launched on May 6, 2015 combining a wide ranging…
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…
European Union regulators plan to open a year-long extensive investigation into e-commerce as part of their efforts to…
Various countries and their compliance-enforcing agencies request that companies have “adequate” compliance programs and organizations. But what does…
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…