Baker & McKenzie has released its first global client survey on Social Media. Based on the responses from international clients across a range of 14 sectors the report highlights how corporate social media use stands at a critical point in its development. While the understanding of how and where social media…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on December 2, 2014 released its first-ever analysis of anti-bribery…
On 3 December 2014, Transparency International (“TI”) launched its latest Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”) 2014. The CPI ranks countries…
GCB is a landmark judgment with important implications for the European Commission and member states applying EU competition law, as well as the companies whose arrangements are scrutinised by those agencies.[1] The judgment applies the brakes to the Commission’s expansive approach to the notion of when a restriction is anticompetitive…
On 23 October 2014, Transparency International published a report which analyzed the enforcement of the the Organisation for…
Sweden recently amended its Competition Act with regards to the “marker” system and the “stop the clock” powers…
On July 29, 2014 the law on combating late payment in commercial transactions came into force. It serves to implement the Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of February 16, 2011. The aim of the Directive is to develop a legal and economic environment encouraging prompt payment…
Disclosure of environmental, human rights and social risks is moving from its home between the glossy pages of voluntary reports into the hard-nosed realm of mandatory legal requirements, as evidenced by recent developments in the European Union and India.