Christine Dekker: McDonald’s
The UK and Ireland GC on ten years at the fast-food giant and how tech is transforming the consumer trade
The UK and Ireland GC on ten years at the fast-food giant and how tech is transforming the consumer trade
Today, China remains a top destination for foreign investment. As one of the most populated countries in the world, and with a rapidly growing middle-class, there are plenty of opportunities in the Chinese market.
The GC of the UK’s central bank talks Brexit, having a mission and making partner at 31
Atsumi & Sakai is a multi-award-winning, independent Tokyo law firm with a dynamic and innovative approach to legal practice; it has been responsible for a number of ground-breaking financial deal structures and was the first Japanese law firm to create a foreign law joint venture and so admit foreign lawyers as full partners. Expanding from …
Post Office refreshes panel with two-tier system Pinsent Masons and Linklaters are among six law firms that have won spots on the Post Office’s new two-tier legal panel, worth £39m. Pinsents, Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright have been appointed to lot one, covering complex strategic work across the company, which is wholly owned by the …
The Foreign Business Act (FBA) governs the scope of foreign participation in business activities in Thailand. Under the FBA, foreigners, unless otherwise exempted, are restricted from participating in certain specified businesses. Foreigners are required to obtain a foreign business licence or certificate before engaging in such activities.
GCs are more than happy to talk the talk when it comes to diversity and wellbeing. Such assertions are hard to square with the lack of action.
Change is the new norm and each month, companies are contemplating how to transform their current business set-up to create efficiencies, maximise use of invested capital and simplify corporate structures. Other motives for corporate reorganisations are very often the improvement of fiscal compliance and tax efficiency. The Trump administration’s tax reforms have created a recent …
Continue reading “Corporate reorganisations: how US tax reform drives cash repatriation programmes”
When it comes to high-value complex (and thus expensive) litigation, there is one subject close to the hearts of clients: how do we avoid it? Unsurprisingly even the most well-heeled businesses do not relish the prospect of a protracted and expensive dispute, however much litigation lawyers might salivate at the prospect of a challenging and …
Continue reading “Commercial Litigation Summit – 1 July 2019”
In France, parties have the sole power to delimit the scope of the disputes brought before the courts. In the absence of discovery proceedings, they are also tasked with providing the evidence to back up the demands brought before the courts. The judge may however take any legally admissible measure that appears necessary to the …
Continue reading “The protection of confidentiality of exhibits in French civil proceedings”
Court actions north and south of the border can be different in many ways and one of the main contrasts lies in the production of documents relevant to a case.
The stay of execution order of the ninth administrative court of Ankara (court) regarding the Turkish competition board’s conditional approval decision dated 8 May 2018 and numbered 18-14/267-129 sheds some light and provides insights for future cases regarding the court’s approach towards behavioral remedies. The court found that the behavioral remedies accepted by the board …