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Impact of US Treasury's Special Measures Against Iranian Financial Sector and State Department's Designations on Non-US Banks
22 November 2011
Publication
Last night, the Obama Administration unveiled additional sanctions measures directed at deterring transactions between non-US persons and Iran, including through additional restrictions on US correspondent banking activity and expanded authority to retaliate...
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Responsabilidad penal de la persona jurídica
1 March 2011
Publication
Presupuestos de la responsabilidad penal de la persona jurídica.
Penas susceptibles de ser impuestas a las personas jurídicas.
Medios para evitar la responsabilidad penal de la persona jurídica.
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Datenschutz und E-Discovery
31 January 2011
Publication
In den letzten Monaten häufen sich die Fälle, in denen deutsche Unternehmen
im Zusammenhang mit gerichtlichen oder behördlichen Verfahren
in den USA zur Vorlage von Informationen und Dokumenten aufgefordert
werden. Typischerweise kommt es dabei zu...
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Legal Entity: Criminal Liability
2 March 2011
Publication
Premises of the legal entity's criminal liability
Penalties which may be imposed on legal entities
Means to avoid the legal entity's criminal liability
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Knocking on prison's door: Quasi criminal liability of corporations in the Slovak Republic
16 February 2011
Publication
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...
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SFC consultation paper on proposed anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing guidelines
7 November 2011
Publication
On 1 April 2012, the new Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions) Ordinance, Cap. 615 ("AMLO") will come into effect, which introduces a new legislative framework on the obligations of financial institutions to...
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FSA Update - 20 June 2011
20 June 2011
Publication
FSA Update is a weekly alerter providing views on the publications issued by the FSA during the last week. It provides a quick way to keep up to speed with what is going on at the FSA and is particularly aimed at lawyers who do not deal with FSA rules every day...
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OECD Governments Lead on Business and Human Rights
10 June 2011
Publication
Revisions to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises effective 25 May 2011 include a new Chapter IV dealing with human rights. This is a significant development, particularly in view of the possibility for persons whose human rights are impacted by an...
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FSA Update - 13 June 2011
13 June 2011
Publication
FSA Update is a weekly alerter providing views on the publications issued by the FSA during the last week. It provides a quick way to keep up to speed with what is going on at the FSA and is particularly aimed at lawyers who do not deal with FSA rules every day...
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SEC Proposes Rules to Require Disclosure Related to Conflict Minerals
5 January 2011
Publication
On December 15, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission released proposed rules to implement Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires SEC-regulated issuers to report on their use of so-called "Conflict Minerals", the pejorative statutory...