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Mayer Brown Legal Update
A selection of headlines in the areas of chemicals, environment, consumer products and occupational safety regulations over the past month.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (the Act), enacted on 25 April 2013, will make changes to the process of assessing mergers, acquisitions and corporate joint ventures (“mergers”) when it comes into force in April 2014. It will not alter the turnover and share of supply thresholds that establish whether a deal qualifies for review; nor will it affect the test used to decide whether to block or clear a deal – this will continue to depend on whether the deal concerned will result in a substantial lessening of competition in any market.
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
Announced on the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) website on 3 May 2013, the Guideline on the Handling of Evidence for Anti-monopoly Cases (Liaoning Guideline) issued by Liaoning Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC) represents the next phase of Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) enforcement activity by the SAIC.
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
On 22 April 2013, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published its conditional approval of Marubeni's acquisition of Gavilon Holdings – hot on the heels of the regulator's conditional clearance of the Glencore/Xstrata merger which also concerned strategically-sensitive global markets where China is heavily dependent on imports.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, has been retained to act as outside common counsel to the International Aerospace Environment Group (IAEG), a worldwide group of aerospace companies including Boeing, EADS and Airbus, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, GE Aviation, Northrop Grumman, Rolls Royce, SAFRAN, UTC and Zodiac Aerospace as founding members. Mayer Brown will provide US and EU regulatory, antitrust, export control and intellectual property advice to the IAEG on an ongoing basis.
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Couverture Média
May 2013
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Contrats, concurrence, consommation n°5
"Activité consultative de l'Autorité: parce que, du débat, naît la légitimité."
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
Following a lengthy review lasting the best part of a year, on 16 April 2013 the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) gave a conditional green light to the acquisition by Glencore International plc. (Glencore) of all of the remaining shares of Xstrata plc. (Xstrata), in which Glencore already held a minority equity interest.
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Media Coverage
2 May 2013
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Law360
Antitrust & Competition partner Britt Miller (Chicago) is profiled in a Law360 Q&A feature.
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Mayer Brown Newsletter
Scenario
A financial services organization is a party to a litigation in which plaintiffs are seeking information concerning business practices that impacts a number of the organization’s customers.
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Legal Update
29 April 2013
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
The Hong Kong Government has appointed Members of the Competition Commission on 26 April 2013, to take effect on 1 May 2013 for a period of three years.
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European Competition Law Review (E.C.L.R.), Thomson Reuters
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Legal Update
22 April 2013
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
As part of a continued move toward greater transparency in China's merger control regime, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published for public comment on 27 March 2013 draft Regulations on the Imposition of Restrictive Conditions on Concentrations of Business Operators (Draft Restrictive Conditions Regulations). The consultation closes on 26 April. The new draft rules are comprehensive in scope and largely in line with mainstream international practice – notably in the EU.
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Legal Update
17 April 2013
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
The draft Interim Regulations on Standards for Simple Cases of Concentrations of Business Operators (Draft Simple Cases Regulations) was published for comment on the website of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on 3 April 2013. The deadline for submitting comments on the Draft Simple Cases Regulations is 2 May 2013.
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Media Coverage
16 April 2013
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Competition Law Insight
Interview with London head of Antitrust & Competition Gill Sproul and Merlie Calvert, an EU and UK qualified competition lawyer practising in London as Of Counsel about their practice and the big issues facing clients.
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Mayer Brown Newsletter
In 2012, Mayer Brown’s Antitrust & Competition practice was proud to represent clients in many important cases, achieving significant results for clients around the world. We also added an impressive group of lawyers to our partner ranks.
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Media Coverage
1 April 2013
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Intellectual Property Magazine
Bylined article by London Intellectual Property partner Sarah Byrt, head of Antitrust & Competition Gill Sproul and Palo Alto partner Chris Kelly on the new rules on technology transfer agreements.
This article was first published in Intellectual Property Magazine, 1 April 2013.
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Media Coverage
29 March 2013
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InsideCounsel
In a bylined article, Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Archis Parasharami (Washington, DC) discusses the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant.
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Mayer Brown Newsletter
Scenario
An organization is sued by a former employee who alleges that she was sexually harassed in the workplace through a series of allegedly offensive and degrading text messages sent by a supervisor.
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Media Coverage
28 March 2013
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Law360
A Law360 article discussing Rheumatology Diagnostics Laboratory Inc. et al. v. Blue Shield of California Life & Health Insurance Co. et al. quotes from a legal brief drafted by Antitrust & Competition partners Bob Bloch, Scott Perlman (both Washington, DC) and Chris Kelly (Palo Alto).
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Media Coverage
22 March 2013
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Law 360
Head of Antitrust and Competition in London, Gill Sproul is quoted in an article looking at how proposed reforms to the UK’s competition law could make it easier for the OFT to pursue criminal charges.
This article was first published in Law 360, 22 March 2013.
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Media Coverage
20 March 2013
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Law360
In a bylined article, Antitrust & Competition partners Nathalie Jalabert Doury (Paris), Kiran Desai, Robert Klotz, Jens Peter Schmidt (all Brussels) and Gillian Sproul (London) discuss the French Competition Authority's launch of a sector inquiry in the pharmaceutical sector.
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News Release
19 March 2013
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Government & Global Trade counsel in the firm’s Brussels office, has been elected Vice Chair, Lawyer/Consultant and member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) for a two-year term.
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Legal Update
19 March 2013
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
The US Federal Trade Commission recently updated its guidance on online disclosures—Dot Com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising (the 2013 Dot Com Disclosures).
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News Release
18 March 2013
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Leading global law firm Mayer Brown advised EXEL Industries S.A. on the acquisition of HOLMER Group.
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Legal Update
5 March 2013
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Mayer Brown JSM Legal Update
On 22 February 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed record penalties under China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) of RMB 449 million on two liquor companies for resale price maintenance (RPM) practices.
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