martindale.com
Legal Library
|
Mayer Brown LLP Brussels, Belgium Document Search Results (29) Show: results per page Sort by:  | The WTO Appellate Body Finds US Dolphin-Safe Label Rules Discriminatory
Duane W. Layton, Margaret-Rose Sales, Paulette Vander Schueren; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 24, 2012, previously published on May 23, 2012 For the second time this year, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization has issued a decision that prioritizes the competitive relationship between products subject to a technical regulation in its review of a panel’s decision. According to the Appellate Body, US labeling measures...
| | EU State Aid Modernisation - A Trojan Horse in Commissioner
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 18, 2012, previously published on May 2012 Last week the European Commission adopted a Communication where it announced its plans to modernise State aid control. The Communication on State Aid Modernisation (also referred to as “SAM”) sets out the long-awaited reform package of the State aid rules in the European Union (EU). The...
| | German Federal Cartel Office Published New Merger Guidelines
Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2012, previously published on April 2012 On 29 March 2012, the German Federal Cartel Office ("Cartel Office") adopted new Merger Control Guidelines ("Guidelines"). The new guidelines replace the Principles on the Assessment of Market Power, that the Cartel Office had released in 2000. A first draft of the Guidelines...
| | The OFT/CC Reforms - Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater?
Kiran S. Desai, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 22, 2012, previously published on March 2012 One year after opening a consultation on merging the two UK competition authorities, the British Government announced on 15 March 2012 its response. The centrepiece of these reforms will be the creation of a unified Competition and Markets Authority (‘CMA’) by April 2014 on a statutory...
| | Tackling the European Sovereign Debt Crisis - Stability at Last?
Marius A. Boewe, Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Carsten Flasshoff, Andreas Lange, Kai Liebrich, Jörg Wulfken; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 19, 2012, previously published on March 15, 2012 The European sovereign debt crisis has been back on the agenda of European leaders since the beginning of the year. On 30 January, the 27 Heads of State and Government met during an informal European Council in Brussels. The meeting’s official programme focused on growth and jobs and stressed...
| | WTO Appellate Body Rules Against Chinese Export Restrictions
Duane W. Layton, Leticia Lizardo, Paulette Vander Schueren; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 21, 2012 On January 30, 2012, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) circulated its decision on Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials (WT/DS394/AB/R; WT/DS395AB/R; WT/DS398/AB/R). The initial dispute was brought in 2009 by the United States, the European Union, and Mexico...
| | EU Competition: Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext Merger Blocked
Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 6, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On 1st February 2012, the European Commission adopted its decision prohibiting the USD 10.2 billion merger between Deutsche Börse (DB) and NYSE Euronext (NYSE). The decision is notable not the least because it is rare for the Commission to block a merger. Only 21 have been blocked compared to...
| | Leniency Applications Protected: German Court Denies Private Plaintiffs Access to File
Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 2, 2012, previously published on February 2012 Yesterday, a decision of the Local Court of Bonn, Germany, became public denying a company seeking redress from cartelists access to a leniency application and documentary evidence submitted in the context of a cartel proceeding. Following a period of uncertainty, this is the first time - as far as...
| | European Commission Seeks Views on the Technology Transfer Block Exemption
Sarah Byrt, Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Sangeeta Puran, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul, Ulrich Worm; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 26, 2011, previously published on December 2011 The European Commission is inviting comments on the application of EU competition rules for the assessment of technology transfer agreements due to the upcoming expiry of the current Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (“TTBE”).
| | State Aid - The European Commission Updates the Special Crisis Regime to Banks
Kiran S. Desai, Nathalie Jalabert Doury, Jens Peter Schmidt, Gillian Sproul; Mayer Brown International LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 12, 2011, previously published on December 2011 On 6 December 2011, the European Commission published a Communication to extend the application of the special State aid regime for banks that had been adopted during the financial crisis. The extension of the crisis framework responds to the need to tackle the continued tensions in the financial...
|
|