Doing Business in the European Union | Reporting Systems and the Importance of Culture & Language
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Doing Business in the European Union | Key Elements of the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection
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Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: EU Mandatory Disclosure Rules (DAC 6)
Nota Bene Episode 81: European Check In: How the EU is Dealing with the Pandemic’s Economic Fallout with Oliver Heinisch
Jones Day Talks: EU's New Foreign Direct Investment Regulations Eye Specific Sectors
Although political sentiment against mandatory sustainability reporting by business entities has grown in Europe (similar to the anti-ESG backlash in the United States), the European Commission (EC) has not backed down. On...more
Yesterday, March 13, 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), a sweeping AI governance framework which presents the first comprehensive law in the world aimed at ensuring AI...more
The European Union just passed the world’s first comprehensive law regulating the use of artificial intelligence – which will put all the more pressure of the US to follow suit in the near future. This landmark law, finalized...more
The Guidelines build on current social, environmental, and technological issues facing businesses following the last update in 2011. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released updated...more
Hosted by C5 Group, the European Forum on Global Economic Sanctions is recognized as Europe's Premier, longstanding gathering for financial institutions and global exporters. The industry across Europe is confronting an...more
Nearly one year has passed since European Union member states were supposed to have met the December 17, 2021 deadline for incorporating the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive into their national laws. Yet, just 10 of...more
This briefing highlights a number of international pay and employee benefits legal issues that carry potentially severe penalties. Each of these issues is well worth a review now to avoid future consequences. International...more
On March 3, 2021, Kilpatrick Townsend partnered with the Association of Corporate Counsel's Georgia Chapter on "Doing Business in the European Union: Exploring Cross-Border Legal Issues | Anti-Corruption, Ethics, and...more
Last Friday, in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the German government announced various measures described as a big "bazooka" to avert a crisis in the Eurozone's largest economy. The German...more
This article discusses the global developments for the registration of cannabis and cannabis-related trademarks in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the European Union....more
• A U.S.-style class action regime looms large in the European Union. • The current draft legislation imports certain hallmarks of the system celebrated by U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers, but there is uncertainty over what...more
Why does this topic matter to organisations? Under the Directive, organisations were obliged to deal with a separate DPA for each Member State whose laws apply to them. This meant that businesses faced a range of...more
More than a couple of years ago, a lot of fuss was made around the first string of State Aid tax rulings cases of the European Commission (Starbucks, Fiat, Apple, the Belgian scheme relating to the excess profit of...more
In this second article of our series on the House of Lords Select Committee’s recent report, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”, we come to that now inescapable topic in British law and politics —...more
On 14 February 2019, the General Court of the European Union (GCEU) annulled the decision of the European Commission (Commission) on the Belgian excess profit exemption system (SA.37667) in its entirety on the ground that the...more
On August 20, 2018, the U.K. government published further details of its negotiation position with the European Union on state aid post-Brexit. Three days later, it published guidance on state aid in case the U.K. leaves the...more
Is this perception well-founded? And does it represent a new policy trend towards ‘social justice’ objectives or simply a continuation of a policy driver that has underpinned EU competition enforcement for some time?...more
In recent years, the European Commission (EC) has been actively enforcing European Union state aid violations, an area of law that is unique to Europe but has wide-ranging implications for multinationals with investments in...more
Restructuring an international group of companies in Europe continues to be challenging. While companies can transact business freely across European borders, coordination between the stakeholders involved in a cross-border...more
In less than one year, from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or Regulation) will become enforceable. The GDPR introduces a rigorous, far-reaching privacy framework for businesses that operate, target...more
The UK Government has set out a bold vision for a post-Brexit world: The UK as a global pivot; a strategic partnership with the EU; an enduring and perhaps an even more “special” relationship with the U.S. ...more
King & Spalding experts assess what international businesses need to be aware of following the EC's ruling on State Aid in the Apple case - Partners in King & Spalding’s tax department have shared their perspectives and...more
As the European Commission reviews whether tax arrangements conform with State aid rules, companies active in Europe should ensure their fiscal regimes comply with EU law. In recent years, the European Commission (the...more
On 30 August 2016, Ireland was ordered by the EC to recover up to €13 billion from Apple on the basis that tax arrangements implemented between Apple and Ireland, originally in 1991, amounted to the provision of unlawful tax...more
On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom—(more precisely, the island of Great Britain, comprising England, Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland) voted, pursuant to a referendum called “Brexit,” to leave the European...more