The Legal 500

One can witness an increase in the volume and complexity of trademark cases in Lithuania during the past few years. Bad faith is one of the most interesting and, probably, the most complicated issue that Lithuanian courts as well as Lithuanian State Patent Bureau1 have recently discussed in a number of their rulings. There is no clear definition neither in law, nor in case practice on what acts should be considered as made in bad faith, therefore, these cases always serve as a basis for extensive public discussions and form grounds for further disputes.

Inside this issue:  Latest case law in labour matters Protection of proprietary in-terests of a company at the European Court of human rights — why not? Assessing the transfer of an undertaking NEWS – ANNOUNCEMENTS – EVENTS

The amendments made - Significant amendments to the Commercial Law regarding reorganization of companies, convening of shareholders’ meetings, as well as declaring the beneficial owners came into effect on 1 and 13 July 2011.

Legal News at Your Glance - European Union: Treaty of Lisbon signed -- Estonia: Changes in Income Tax Act -- Latvia: Latvian Supreme Court upholds restrictive doctrine of foreign state immunity -- Lithuania: Amendments in the business accounting standards

A practical insight to cross-border Corporate Tax work

This article covers two topics (1) Estonian employment contracts and their termination (2) Amendments in Law “On State Social Insurance”

Latvia: 2007 year in review.

The new Insolvency Law has come in to force as of 1st January 2008

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