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Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2013, previously published on March 12, 2013 Two recent decisions from the Southern District of New York provide some guidance on limits to the US government’s ability to prosecute foreign nationals under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The first decision, SEC v. Straub, et al., supports the government’s long-held view that the...
| | Conclusion of Employment Contract (cont'd)
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Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2013, previously published on March 13, 2013 Can I include a probationary period in the labour contract?
Yes. The maximum length of the probationary period you can impose on an employee will depend on the term of the labour contract. Where the term of a labour contract is more than three months but less than one year, the probationary period...
|  | Buying a Vineyard in France? Some Considerations...
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Legal Alert/Article March 13, 2013, previously published on March 13, 2013 In the last few years there has been a marked increase in the number of wine-loving overseas investors seeking to purchase vineyards in France.
| | Rights in Data - Football Dataco Case Goes to UK Court of Appeal
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Legal Alert/Article March 12, 2013, previously published on March 2013 The long-running Football Dataco case, relating to rights in data and infringement on the internet, has now reached the UK Court of Appeal. The judgment is good news, not just for those exploiting information about sports matches (which has given rise to several cases already) but also those with...
| | Managing the Risks and Costs of Responding to Third-Party Civil Subpoenas
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Legal Alert/Article March 11, 2013, previously published on February 28, 2013 A large customer of a manufacturing company is sued by a putative class of shareholders claiming various securities law violations related to an alleged failure to disclose the declining sales of one of their products, for which the manufacturing company provides parts. The manufacturing company...
| | Cornerstone Investors - A Guaranteed Allocation of Shares is All You Can Get
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Legal Alert/Article March 11, 2013, previously published on March 7, 2013 It is not uncommon for Hong Kong IPOs, especially in difficult market conditions, to invite cornerstone investors such as well-known institutions, sovereign wealth funds and celebrities to subscribe for shares under the placing tranche so as to enhance popularity and investors' confidence. The...
| | Software Copyright - New Developments in the UK
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Legal Alert/Article March 11, 2013, previously published on February 2013 The UK Courts have recently decided a high-profile software copyright case, following clarification on some key issues from the European Court. The SAS Institute case examines whether software programming languages, data file formats and other program elements are protected by copyright.
| | Record Fines Imposed in Chinese Maotai Liquor RPM Cases
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Legal Alert/Article March 11, 2013, previously published on March 5, 2013 On 22 February 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed record penalties under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) of RMB 449 million on two liquor companies for resale price maintenance (RPM) practices.
| | Multijurisdictional Merger Filings: News and Recent Developments
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Legal Alert/Article March 8, 2013, previously published on February 2013 Cross-border mergers frequently trigger pre-closing antitrust reviews. Such reviews are complex and can be fraught with risk. With more than 90 countries now having obligatory premerger filing requirements, different substantive and procedural regimes can make a multijurisdictional transaction an...
| | Employment Changes on the Horizon For 2013
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Legal Alert/Article March 8, 2013 2013 is shaping up to be an interesting one from an employment law perspective, particularly as the Government hopes that a number of its proposals for deregulating and modernising employment relations will come to fruition during the year. In this month’s Update, we summarise the key changes...
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