The focus on high growth markets from UK businesses brings with it compliance and risk management challenges that in-house and external legal teams are being increasingly called to advise upon. Baker & McKenzie examine these growing compliance issues that come with the rise of emerging markets.
Law Firm: Baker & McKenzie | Published: 04 May 2012 | Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Cartels are a damaging form of anti-competitive activity. The OFT is prepared to offer lenient treatment to businesses that come forward with information about a cartel in which they are involved. This guide explains how the OFT's cartels leniency programme for businesses works.
Law Firm: Office of Fair Trading | Published: 02 May 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
Nabarro's monthly update covers all the key news relevant to UK and EU competition, procurement and state aid. April's edition features stories on the OFT's RBS/Barclays decision; Universal's acquisition of EMI; confidentiality claims; and Apple and Microsoft's complaint against Motorola patents.
Law Firm: Nabarro | Published: 24 April 2012 | Practice Area: EU Member State Competition Law
The fifth edition of DLA Piper's 'Doing Business in China' guide provides comprehensive industry knowledge and insights into what it takes to successfully plan and execute business and investment strategies in the People's Republic of China.
Law Firm: DLA Piper | Published: 03 April 2012 | Practice Area: Corporate Governance
With its favourable investment environment and strategic location in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia is increasingly an attractive location for investors. This comprehensive guide provides a general, high-level outline of the legal and tax issues relevant to doing business in Australia.
Law Firm: King & Wood Mallesons | Published: 02 April 2012 | Practice Area: Corporate Governance
The advent of the South African constitutional era brought with it a vigorous inquiry into the relationship between the exercise of power and procedural framework. In this article, ENS outline how this tension between strength and power aptly reflects the challenges facing administrative bodies.
Law Firm: ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) | Published: 27 March 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
The Government has announced the changes it plans to make to UK competition law. As expected, these include replacing the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission with a single Competition and Markets Authority. Travers Smith provides a comprehensive overview of the forthcoming changes.
Law Firm: Travers Smith | Published: 22 March 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
This detailed research paper was commissioned by the Office of Fair Trading to update their understanding of businesses and their experience of potential breaches of competition law. The research involved over 2,000 telephone interviews with a representative sample of businesses in seven sectors.
Law Firm: Office of Fair Trading | Published: 19 March 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
The Government recently released its Response to the Consultation on the options for reforming the UK's competition regime. In this briefing, Field Fisher Waterhouse set out the key, proposed changes; the most far-reaching of which is the creation of the Competition and Markets Authority.
Law Firm: Field Fisher Waterhouse | Published: 19 March 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
This guide is intended to help all businesses to comply with competition law, by describing the OFT's suggested fourstep process for achieving a competition law compliance culture: risk identification; risk assessment; risk mitigation; and review.
Law Firm: Office of Fair Trading | Published: 15 March 2012 | Practice Area: Competition Regulators and enforcement
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