ABSTRACT: The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules recently proposed a new rule to create a framework for courts managing multidistrict litigation, also known as MDLs. Historically, there has been no reference to multidistrict litigation in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, creating the impetus for Proposed New Rule 16.1, which is designed to provide a framework for the initial management of…
Member Publications
The Finance Bill, 2023, contains various highly investor-friendly amendments. Other than focusing on raising or introducing new taxes, there is an aspect of closing loopholes that were used not to pay tax. This is a suitable tax collection model compared to introducing new or raising taxes, as has always been the usual practice.
The new areas that the Finance Bill, 2023, is focusing on to tax or a…
On 28 March 2023, the Finance Ministry sent Bill No. 8186, the provisions of which are aimed at amending and modernizing certain procedural aspects of direct taxation dispute resolution (the “Bill“).
The following amendments merit being emphasized.
1) The complaint procedure before the Direct Tax Administration (Administration des Contributions Directes or “ACD”)
The Bill provides for a partial o…
Inventions
Patent law deals with the legal protection of inventions. Traditionally, invention is often thought of technical things, such as the light bulb, the internal combustion engine, the computer, the airplane, solar panels, or the 3-D printer.
But very many different things can be an invention. For example, everyday items are also considered inventions within the meaning of the Dutch Patent…
This second article in the series 'This is how you protect your intellectual property' looks at patents.
Inventions
Patent law deals with the legal protection of inventions. Traditionally, invention is often thought of technical things, such as the light bulb, the internal combustion engine, the computer, the airplane, solar panels, or the 3-D printer.
But very many different things can be an in…
The new Housing Law includes some important changes in order to make easier the access to housing, especially for young people and vulnerable sectors (protection in evictions), and with the aim of controlling the price increases.
The most outstanding measures of this new Housing Law includes, among others:
Regulation of rental prices in the most stressed areas.
Untying the CPI (Consumer Pric…
The General Counsel Netherlands' Annual Conference 2023 took place on Thursday 30 March 2023. One of the round tables during this congress was about the do's and don'ts for General Counsels when restructuring in case of crises. We will highlight some of the topics of discussion during this round table.
The common thread of the discussions during the round table was, however, that the General Coun…
In October 2021, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced a new initiative under the False Claims Act: The Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“CCFI”). (LINK to DOJ News Release on the CCFI). DOJ Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced that the CCFI “will hold accountable entities or individuals that put U.S. information or systems at risk by knowingly providing deficient cybersecuri…
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2020, and was thereby enacted into law effective January 1, 2021 pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, having broad bipartisan support. The CTA requires certain businesses to report their beneficial ownership information to the Financial Crimes E…
After the Federal Labor Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht - BAG) ruled on September 13, 2022 that employers are obliged to introduce a system to record the working time worked by employees and to ensure that this system is also used (BAG - 1 ABR 22/21) - we reported - the legislator has now also got into gear. On April 18, 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) presented th…