1 May – Ascension in Liechtenstein and Switzerland (publicholiday) 5 May – May Bank Holiday, UK (public holiday) 7 May – ‘Antitrust Litigation – EC White PaperAnalysis’ Centaur Conference (London, UK) 8–9 May – ‘Legal Challenges for Foreign Investmentin Latin America’, American Bar Association Seminar (SaoPaulo Brazil) 9 May  相似文献   

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  2 March – ‘Switzerland and the Taxation of TrustArrangements’, STEP Event (Zurich, Switzerland) 3 March – ‘Trusts and International Taxation: SessionG: Switzerland’, STEP Event (Zurich, Switzerland) 3 March – ‘Successful Estate Planning’, IIRConference (London, UK) 5 March – ‘Powers  相似文献   

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  1 January: Date by which all UK firms and groups must complywith the new capital requirements under the Capital RequirementsDirective, as implemented by the FSA Handbook. 1 January: Capital Requirements Directive—Date from whichthe use  相似文献   

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  1 November: Deadline for firms to comply with the requirementsof MiFID. 1 November: MiFID/Capital Requirements Directive—Dateon which the Senior Management Arrangements, Systems and ControlsSourcebook (SYSC) will be disapplied (for all common platformfirms) and replaced by the common platform. 1 November: Date from which the proposed amendments to the Admissionand Disclosure Standards of the  相似文献   

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  5 April: Transition period under Finance Act 2006 ends, andAccumulation and Maintenance trusts will become subject to therelevant property regime. 6 April: Capital gains tax reform – a new flat rate ofcapital gains tax of 18% for individuals and trustees and taperrelief will be withdrawn (the changes do not apply to capitalgains  相似文献   

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  24 September: Deadline for comments on the DTI's consultativedocument on registration of Scottish floating charges underthe Companies Act 2006.   Clearing and settlement—the Economic and Financial Committeeto prepare comprehensive strategic discussions  相似文献   

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  PatentsIrish ‘Lipitor’ litigation: High Court favours broadclaim construction. In its first significant judgment on claimconstruction in over 25 years, Ireland's High Court approvedthe principles laid down by the English House of Lords in Kirin-Amgen,holding that Warner-Lambert's ‘Lipitor’ patent isnot limited to a racemic mixture and refusing Ranbaxy a declarationof non-infringement. Trade marksCancellation of a trade mark based on a prior foreign geographicalindication related to different products. The registration andthe use of a composite trade mark including a famous geographicalindication (GI), for products different to those covered bythe GI, are acts of unfair competition insofar as they allowthe trade mark owner to free-ride on the  相似文献   

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  PatentsAdvanced therapies and the outer limits of DNA regulation: newhorizons for patents or a scaffold too far? This Regulationseeks to regulate existing and future advanced therapy medicinalproducts intended for the market in Member States, being eitherprepared industrially or manufactured by a method involvingan industrial process, and introduces additional provisionsto those laid down in the pharmaceutical legislation Directive2001/83. (p. 210)Federal Circuit affirms Nilssen's 15 patents unenforceable forinequitable conduct. The US Federal Circuit affirmed the DistrictCourt finding; it did not abuse its discretion in holding 15of Nilssen's patents unenforceable due to his intentional withholdingof material information during patent prosecution from the USPatent Office (‘USPTO’). (p. 212)Trade marksCourt in Argentina holds that HARRODS trade marks cannot co-exist.In October 2007, Chamber I of the Federal Civil and CommercialChamber of Appeals, Buenos  相似文献   

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  February 20072 February: CESR's consultation period closes on Draft Level3 Guidance on the operation of the MAD. 9 February: CESR's consultation period closes on inducementsunder MiFID. 9 February: CESR's consultation period closes on  相似文献   

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Three IP blogs     
Headdon  Toby 《Jnl of Intellectual Property Law & Pract》2006,1(7):493-494
Lessig Blog By Lawrence Lessig United States of America Archivedback to August 2002 http://www.lessig.org/blog/ Techno Llama ByAndres Guadamuz Scotland Archived back to October 2004 http://technollama.blogspot.com/ Patently-O:Patent Law Blog By Dennis Crouch United States of America Archivedback to April 2005 http://patentlaw.typepad.com/  
  Lawrence Lessig is the author of such revered titles as Codeand Other Laws of Cyberspace and The Future of Ideas. As maybe expected, his eponymous blog site follows themes  相似文献   

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Loan only credit default swaps the new European standard form     
Bartlam  Martin; Artmann  Karin 《Capital Markets Law Journal》2007,2(4):414-426
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  • European Loan Only Credit Default Swap (‘LCDS’)documentation was published by the International Swaps &Derivatives Association, Inc. in the form of a Standard TermsSupplement and Form of Confirmation for use with Credit DerivativeTransactions on Leveraged Loans on 30 July 2007 (the ‘EuropeanLCDS’).
  • This article reviews some of the changes thathave been made since the first circulation of the draft EuropeanLCDS documentation on 2 May 2006 (the ‘Draft LCDS’).
  • Acomparison between the Draft LCDS, the current form of the EuropeanLCDS and the US LCDS (defined in the article below) providesan insight into how the development of the European LCDS hasrequired a compromise to be made between the needs and demandsof various market participants and the specifics of the Europeanleveraged loan market (as more fully described in our recentarticle1) and indicates points of convergence between the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
 
    Reference Obligation-basedReference EntityDeliverable ObligationsRestructuring as Credit EventPhysical SettlementCancellability   ContinuityRefinancingRefinancingDesignation of the Successor Credit AgreementDesignation of Substitute Reference ObligationCredit Events and RestructuringSettlementPhysical SettlementCash SettlementDeliverable Obligations    相似文献   

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Indirect holdings of securities and exercise of shareholder rights (a Spanish perspective)     
Trueba  Ignacio Gomez-Sancha 《Capital Markets Law Journal》2008,3(1):32-57
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  • Shareholder rights have been the centre of the debatein Corporate Governance since recently. At the same time, modernsecurities markets have evolved and changed profoundly in recentdecades, both in the way in which the securities are representedand transferred—through electronic book entries held byintermediaries—and in the geographical reach of such transfers:every corner of the world.
  • Recent research has thoroughly analysedthe effects of the indirect holding system in those countriesthat have chosen to give legal status to indirect holding systems(where the paradigm is the USA), leading to the conclusion thatin these countries the issuer–investor relationship encountersfar more difficulties than in those that facilitate direct holding.Some scholars have even proposed that countries such as theUSA should move into a direct holding similar to the Spanishone.
  • This article analyses whether direct holdings facilitatethe said issuer–investor relationship by reviewing . . . [Full Text of this Article]
 
   
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