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This briefing shows important international events for 2011.

After many years of political and academic debate, the Slovak Criminal Code introduces a fundamentally new legal concept of quasi criminal liability of corporations with effect from September 2010. Under the Slovak Criminal Code protective measures may be imposed...

A weekly summary of the UK government's political programme.

A weekly summary of the UK government's political programme.

The Bribery Act 2010, which gained Royal Assent on 8 April 2010, will radically transform the UK law on corruption, introducing a fundamentally different concept of bribery, a new strict liability for corporate, and a 'no-fault' foreign bribery offence. It will...

A new law aimed at improving the safety of medicines and health products was published in the Official Journal dated 30 December 2011 (the "Ethics law"). The Ethics law aims at restoring public confidence in medicine approval processes and reforming...

Just yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments that could change future rulings regarding the liability multinational corporations face in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), a 223-year-old law that permits non-U.S. citizens...

New rules have been proposed in Europe for disclosure of payments to governments by natural resources undertakings, both listed and unlisted. If you're negotiating concession agreements today, it's time to start preparing.     Summary ...

On 3 March 2011, Clifford Chance published a client briefing "Sanctions affecting Libya" outlining the first regulations with sanction provisions relating to the current situation in Libya. Since then, on 17 March 2011, the United Nations Security Council...

New rules have been adopted in the US requiring annual disclosures of the use in manufacturing of 'conflict minerals' sourced from and around the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  The rules will bite from 2013 giving affected organisations only...