The Legal 500

Legal Developments worldwide

• Employment in more than one country - place where the employee habitually carries out his work

  place of business through which the employee was engaged
  - Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris

• No social security contributions due on a 'premium for drinks'

  A 'premium for drinks' that is paid by the employer to comply with its obligation to put the appropriate drinks at the disposal of its employees is not subjected to social security contributions.
  - Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris

• Czech Republic: Limitation of Damages Explicitly Possible since 1 January 2012

  After years of uncertainty, in 2011 the Czech Republic finally passed an amendment to the Commercial Code explicitly allowing for the limitation of damages in agreements under Commercial Code between entrepreneurs and companies.
  - Schönherr

• Revisions to the rules for tier 1 investors and entrepreneurs?

  There are a number of aspects of the rules for tier 1 investors and entrepreneurs that are unclear or unnecessarily restrictive and we have been in extensive dialogue for many months now with the UKBA on a range of issues, both policy and technical.
  - Penningtons Solicitors LLP

• The Ultimate Legal Guide to Investing in Greece

  1) minority shareholders rights and shareholders agreements, 2) S.A. taxation, 3) antitrust regulations, cartels and abuse of dominance, 4) state aid, 5) environment & industry, 6) spatial & urban planning, land uses, 7) personal data protection.
  - Dryllerakis & Associates

• GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT UNIT OF INDONESIA (PIP) AND PT PLN (PERSERO) HAVE SIGNED A

  USD 800 MIO SOFT LOAN
  - Hanafiah Ponggawa & Partners

• The Federal Anti-monopoly Service requires credit proposals to include all conditions affecting...

  their price
  - Goltsblat BLP

• No substitute for experience

  If there is one part of the Localism Act 2011 about which local government lawyers have considerable concerns, it is the new standards regime.
  - 11KBW

• CONSULTATION AND LEGITIMATE EXPECTATIONS

  Clive Sheldon QC
  - 11KBW

• The Russian Federal Tax Service on how to conclude advance pricing agreements for tax purposes

  Legal Update No. 322
  - Goltsblat BLP