Select location Login United States Our firm What we do Careers News Our thinking Contact us Briefing 02 April 2015 New York Stock Exchange broadens the circumstances in which listed companies will be deemed delinquent filers of periodic reports The New York Stock Exchange has adopted rules which broaden the circumstances in which a listed company will be deemed a delinquent filer of periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission and potentially subject to suspension of trading and delisting. Valerie Ford Jacob Michael Levitt Paul Tropp Mark Strauch Calvin Lai Ken Martin Simone Bono Stuart Grider Sarah Murphy Ashar Qureshi Denise Ryan Doug Smith Arun Balasubramanian Briefing 30 March 2015 Another piece of the jigsaw: Hong Kong Competition Commission publishes Revised Draft Guidelines Briefing 2015-03-30 Another piece of the jigsaw: Hong Kong Competition Commission publishes Revised Draft Guidelines The Hong Kong Competition Commission (the Commission ) has today published Revised Draft Guidelines (available here) which outline how it proposes to interpret the Competition Ordinance ( Jenny Connolly Nicholas French Ninette Dodoo William Robinson Briefing 27 March 2015 e-commerce: The Commission's sector inquiry The new EU Commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, announced on 26 March that she intends to launch a sector inquiry into e-commerce. Martin McElwee Sascha Schubert Briefing 26 March 2015 Holiday pay update - Tribunal clarifies position on commission Yesterday saw the latest instalment in the long running series of holiday pay cases when the Leicester Employment Tribunal released its judgment in the case of Lock v British Gas Trading. The case of Lock concerns the question of whether contractual commission should be taken into account when calculating holiday pay and, if it should, how employers should calculate holiday pay in these circumstances. Kathleen Healy Harriet Gaillard Briefing 25 March 2015 Supreme Court applies “Reasonable” standard for statements of opinion under Section 11 Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund. Marshall Fishman Michael Lacovara Michael Levitt Briefing 23 March 2015 New rules on exclusion from public tendering processes – broader grounds but a route to re-entry With the entry into force of the new Public Contracts Regulations on 26 February 2015, the UK became one of the first in Europe to implement the EU Public Procurement Directive 2014 to bring in new rules relating to exclusion from public contracting opportunities. Jane Jenkins Dominic Jones Briefing 23 March 2015 China introduces comprehensive new cyber security rules for banking procurement China’s banking regulator, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (“CBRC”) has implemented specific new rules designed to improve the security of the IT used by Chinese banks. These rules will have sweeping consequences for vendors supplying hardware and software to China’s banking industry, and may prefigure the introduction of similar requirements for insurance, telecommunications, internet and cloud service providers and other critical infrastructure companies.The Notice on the Promotion Guidelines for Banking Applications of Secure and Controllable Information Technology (2014-2015) (“CBRC Notice 317”)) became effective on 26 December 2014. The notice itself has not been issued widely outside of Chinese banks and certain selected technology vendors. This briefing is based on an unofficial copy. Richard Bird Chuan Sun John K. Warren Briefing 19 March 2015 Topical Tip - 19 March 2015 - MAC Clauses The proliferation of regulatory authorities worldwide, lengthy clearance times and the growing risk of events arising between signing and closing means that you need to think more than ever about what will happen to your deal if the target suffers a material adverse change between signing and closing. In this tip we’ll look at the use of MAC clauses in corporate transactions. Briefing 19 March 2015 US government reviews national security aspects of increasing number of acquisitions by Asian companies The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the multi-agency committee charged with conducting national security reviews of acquisitions by foreign persons of US businesses, issued in February 2015 its annual report for calendar year 2013 (Report). Robert Schlossberg Christine Laciak Briefing 18 March 2015 Client update: Supreme Court rules on antitrust immunity for regulatory boards Last month, the Supreme Court handed down a potentially wide reaching decision on antitrust immunity as it relates to State agencies and boards. Robert Schlossberg Paul Yde Tom Ensign Bruce McCulloch Terry Calvani First « Prev « Page 1 of 120 Next » Last » 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 200 400 500 1000 1500 Search Keyword Languages English Insights Briefings Newsletters Seminars Reports Services All Sectors All Year All Find a lawyer Name: Advanced Search Follow us Twitter Linkedin Xing Google+ RSS Email The Freshfields Network Login to our alumni site Login | Register Accessibility Legal notices Privacy Cookies Ts & Cs Responsible procurement Attorney advertising: Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome