Expert Guides - Best of the Best

New year, new views – Arbitration highlights in the Year of the Rat

As the world welcomes in the Year of the Rat, we take a look back at five recent decisions that made big waves in the Year of the Pig in their different ways, across Hong Kong, Singapore, and England.

31/03/2020 James Kwan, Hogan Lovells, Hong Kong

Increased tax transparency and tax authority cooperation fuels tax controversy momentum in the Asia-Pacific region

The Organisation of Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project has provided fuel for tax authorities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. With increased tax transparency and tax authority cooperation, tax authorities continue their momentum for...

30/03/2020 Luis Coronado, EY, Singapore

Planning for Digital Intangibles in Economic Ups and Downs

Investments in intangibles have increased dramatically over the past few years

27/03/2020 Alexander Vögele, NERA Economic Consulting, Germany Yves Hervé, NERA Economic Consulting, Germany

M&A in Spain. Momentum

Low interest rates has clearly been one of the key pacesetters of M&A activities in Spain in 2018 and up to now in 2019

05/04/2019 Fernando Vives Ruiz, Garrigues, Spain

The Italian Constitutional Court declares the invalidity of the “arithmetic rule” to quantify indemnities against unlawful dismissals

In November 2018, the Italian Constitutional Court has declared the invalidity of the statutory “arithmetic rule” which was to be adopted by the Judge when quantifying the indemnity which certain categories of employees unlawfully dismissed are entitled to

05/04/2019 Angelo Zambelli, Grimaldi Studio Legale, Italy

Recent case-law and tendency on Regulation (EC) No. 261/2004

By Decision No. 1584 dated 23 January 2018, the Italian Supreme Court found that in case of flight cancellation or delay at arrival the burden of proof lies with the air carrier

22/05/2018 Laura Pierallini, Studio Pierallini, Italy

Transfer pricing updates: a Southeast Asia perspective

Southeast Asia is a diverse region with a global merchandise share of US$2.2t , of which the largest contributor is intra-Southeast Asia trade, at around 24%.

08/05/2018 Luis Coronado, EY, Singapore

Best of the Best 2019: Methodology

Welcome to the 2019 edition of the Best of the Best

04/05/2018

What will be the outcome of Johnny Hallyday’s inheritance battle?

A couple of months ago a feud erupted over the estate of a French citizen, the French rock star Johnny Hallyday, who died on December 5, 2017

26/04/2018 Jean-Marc Tirard, Tirard Naudin, France

PE’s and profit allocation – the OECD caught by its own Action Plan

The treaty concept of permanent establishment (‘PE’) as defined in Article 5 of the OECD Model Tax Convention is put in place to allow states to tax foreign enterprises whenever they carry out a substantial business activity on their territory

25/04/2018 Patrick Cauwenbergh, Deloitte, Belgium Charlotte Degadt, Deloitte, Belgium Tim Wustenberghs, Laga, Belgium

Meeting the rising tide of compliance

Compliance is a complex area for product manufacturers and suppliers

25/04/2018 Colin Loveday, Clayton Utz, Australia Richard Abraham, Clayton Utz, Australia

The Scope of Protection – The UK Supreme Court Rewrites the Rulebook

In a recent decision the UK Supreme Court reviewed the scope of protection that should be granted to protect patentable inventions

25/04/2018 Penny Gilbert, Powell Gilbert, United Kingdom

Contempt in IPR cases – the dagger and sword approach

The contempt jurisdiction is a rather interesting one. As the title of the Article might suggest, when you originally approach a Court of Law for an order against a third party, the dispute is seen by the Judge as essentially one involving two private parties

25/04/2018 Pravin Anand, Anand and Anand, India Vaishali Mittal, Anand and Anand, India Ravin Galgotia, Anand and Anand, India

Supreme Court of Canada strikes down patent utility “promise doctrine” as “not good law”

In mid-2017, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered an important and highly anticipated decision

25/04/2018 Gunars Gaikis, Smart & Biggar, Canada

Disputing and counteracting unilateral extraterritorial sanctions

Unilateral sanctions are the foreign policy tool of choice for some developed nations across the globe

25/04/2018 Edward Borovikov, Dentons, Belgium Nadiya Nychay, Dentons, Belgium

Privacy Regulation and Emerging Risks for Insurers

On April 9th 2018 87 million people around the globe were notified that the personal information contained on their Facebook profiles had been accessed without their consent

25/04/2018 Dominic T Clarke, Blaney McMurtry, Canada David Mackenzie, Blaney McMurtry, Canada

The objectives of consumer protection and public order in the gambling sector

In the absence of harmonisation at the EU level, Member States are in principle free to set their own policy objectives on betting and gaming activities in accordance with their own scale of values which vary between Member States

25/04/2018 Philippe Vlaemminck, Pharumlegal, Belgium Lidia Dutkiewicz, Pharumlegal, Belgium

The future of oil and gas: trends and developments

The Brazilian energy matrix is diversified, and the importance of oil and gas is growing in the country

25/04/2018 Paulo Valois Pires, Schmidt Valois Miranda Ferreira & Agel, Brazil

Twenty years of corporate governance in Spain and ten challenges for the immediate future

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the corporate governance movement in Spain, two decades after the first voluntary good governance code, titled The Governance of Listed Companies, was prepared by a special commission led by Professor Olivencia (February 26, 1998)

25/04/2018 Fernando Vives Ruiz, Garrigues, Spain

One belt, one road – construction and investor risks, and disputes

In the autumn of 2013, the Chinese leadership raised the initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (One Belt and One Road) (“OBOR”)

25/04/2018 David Bateson, 39 Essex Chambers, Singapore

A time of change: recent arbitration developments in Hong Kong

2017 was nothing short of an eventful year across the globe

25/04/2018 James Kwan, Hogan Lovells, Hong Kong James Ng, Hogan Lovells, Hong Kong

Air Carrier Liability in International Carriage according to Brazilian Courts

Liability in international carriage is regulated by international treaties signed by the Brazilian Government

25/04/2018 Ricardo Bernardi, Bernardi & Schnapp, Brazil

Tax Structuring Post BEPS

“We are not interested in your stories”, the tax auditor claimed

24/04/2018 Stephan Schnorberger, Baker McKenzie, Germany

Best of the Best 2017 Methodology

Welcome to the 2017 edition of the Best of the Best, the international legal market's leading guide to the top legal practitioners.

16/05/2017

Recent Developments in Financial Crime

The last year has been an eventful one in the sphere of economic crime. Aside from high profile enforcement successes for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), on the legislative front there have been a number of key statutory developments that have brought into sharp focus the UK government’s...

03/05/2017 Stephen Gentle, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom Helen Soutter, Simmons & Simmons, United Kingdom

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