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Mayer Brown

AVENUE DES ARTS 52, 1000 BRUXELLES, BELGIUM

Washington DC, Singapore, Shanghai, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and 18 more

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Competition

Within Competition, Mayer Brown is a third tier firm,

Mayer Brown’s antitrust unit has seen an uptick in merger control mandates, owing in part to referrals from the firm’s corporate practice including advising Caterpillar in the EC’s phase two investigation into its anticipated $810m takeover of MVM. Kiran Desai assisted AkzoNobel and Cargill with merger filings, and the group advised Carbunion in a contentious state aid matter. Jens Peter Schmidt, who divides his time between Brussels and Cologne, is ‘effective’, ‘responsive’ and ‘diligent’.

Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping

Within Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping, Mayer Brown is a second tier firm,

Hogan Lovells International LLP’s well established trade practice recently represented the Chinese government in the first ever anti-subsidy case brought in the EU against China and acted for Asia Pulp & Paper in both the anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigations into the glossy paper trade. Practice head Lourdes Catrain and Hugo Paemen are recommended. Nikolay Mizulin joined Mayer Brown.

EU regulatory

Within Chemicals (REACH), Mayer Brown is a first tier firm,

Mayer Brown has the ‘energy and enterprise to determine difficult answers’. Jean-Philippe Montfort consistently demonstrates a ‘great deal of creativity’ and advises chemical producers as well as users such as Toys “R” Us.

Within Food , Mayer Brown is a first tier firm,

Mayer Brown is a frontrunner in food contact and packaging issues. Recently promoted counsel Sébastien Louvion advised a packaging manufacturer and a producer of bioplastics on various issues. Jean-Philippe Montfort heads the practice.

Tax

Within Tax, tier 4

Mayer Brown advises on cross-border taxes and transfer pricing. Practice head Astrid Pieron and senior associate Charles-Albert Helleputte are ‘particularly efficient lawyers’, who recently assisted Matéris in deploying its transfer pricing documentation across Europe.

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China

Offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Beijing

Hong Kong

Offices in Hong Kong

London

Offices in London EC2M and London EC3A

Thailand

Offices in Bangkok

United States

Offices in Washington DC, New York, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Palo Alto

Vietnam

Offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

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Employment Law News Flash APRIL 2012 SOCIAL

SOCIAL ELECTIONS ARE COMING CLOSER

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
Social elections 2012: Composition of the polling station...

postal voting, final modifications to candidate lists

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Social elections 2012: do temporary workers count for the distribution of the mandates?

In recent case law, the question was raised whether, with respect to the distribution of the number of mandates per category of employees, one must take into account the temporary workers. At least two contradictory court decisions have been rendered until now.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Accumulating indemnities in the event of the dismissal of an employee representative

The Supreme Court has ruled that the indemnity for protection against dismissal for employee representatives can be cumulated with an indemnity for employment security which is due on the basis of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) concluded at the level of a branch of industry.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Gaming & Gambling Law Newsletter March 2012

Judgment on copyright protection of football league fixture lists (C-604/10) On 1 March 2012, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) delivered its judgment in the Football Data Co case (C-604/10).

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
Social Elections 2012: the candidate lists arrive…!

On day X+35 at the latest, the candidate lists must be given to the employer. These lists will have to be posted up by the employer on day X+40 at the latest. Thereafter, the employer has some time to dispute the lists if he wishes.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Social elections 2012: are the temporary workers taken into account for...

the determination of the number of mandates?

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Favourable decision for Veuve Cliquot orange bubbles up

Companies often use colours to promote their products, applying them to goods and packaging and using them in advertisements and point of sale displays. Colours may become a powerful corporate tool, especially when they are registered as trademarks in relation to the company's goods.

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
New act on lease of movable property?

In November 2007, Bertil Bengtsson was appointed to make an examination concerning the Consumer Services Act. In the memorandum he presented in conjunction with that examination, he concluded that the Consumer Services Act should not contain any rules on lease of movable property since lease of movable property does not legally constitute a service.

- Delphi
Social elections 2012: Day X (between 7 and 20 February)

Between the 7th and the 20th of February 2012 lots of information needs to be dispersed. This implies that you are exactly 90 days away from the date of the election.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris