Peruvian Immigration Law requires that foreign nationals who intend to enter Peru to perform business activities are required to apply for a business visa.

A team of lawyers from Esin Attorney Partnership, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, advised Burgan Bank A.S. on its inaugural syndicated loan obtained for general trade finance purposes.

The Draft Bill establishes penalties for legal entities who have participated in any offense against the public administration and/or transnational corruption.

The explosive growth of corporate sustainability programs truly affirms the prominence, if not centrality, that many of these programs have within multinational producers across a wide variety of industries.

Canada has formally repealed its exception for "facilitation payments" under its foreign anti-corruption legislation (the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act).

On August 26, 2011, British Columbians voted to scrap the Harmonized Sales Tax ("HST") and return to the Goods and Services Tax ("GST") and Provincial Sales Tax ("PST") regime that existed up to June 30, 2010.

The EU imposed sanctions on Venezuela in response to the continuing crisis in Venezuela and the perceived deterioration of democracy, the rule of law and human rights.

In a CEO fraud case the Regional Labor Court of Saxony ruled that the financial director authorizing the payment can be held (partially) liable. The amount depends on the efforts of the company...

On 28 September 2017, Bank Negara Malaysia (i.e. the Central Bank of Malaysia) ("BNM") has issued an exposure draft of the Outsourcing Guidelines ("Exposure Draft") to obtain public...

On March 15, 2016, the Energy Ministry published in the Federal Official Gazette an Accord that issues the Account Statement, Billing and Payment Rulebook.

Originally, the filing term for the DIEMSE 2014 was from February 15 to March 15, 2016.

The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has issued rules setting out its timelines for handling merger filings.

The Swedish Tax Agency presented on 28 December 2010 a legal position paper (131 623316-08/111) regarding the application of the Swedish transfer of a going concern (TOGC) VAT exemption.

SOCAR, Turkey's largest foreign investor, receives USD 212 million project finance loan with a 13 year-maturity and a 3 year-grace period from leading Turkish bank, Akbank, to finance the development of the Petlim container terminal

On 22 December 2017, the UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously voted to imposed new sanctions on North Korea following its intercontinental ballistic missile test in November.

On 30 March 2017, the Protocol between the government of the Russian Federation and the government of the South African Republic on mutual cancellation of visa requirements for owners...

The transitional provisions mean that entities already subject to the PSC regime need to consider the impact of these changes on a very short timescale as action may be required before 10 July 2017...

Violations will be punished by a fine in an amount ranging from 30 to 100 times the non-taxable minimum personal income amount (currently - from $63 to $210).

As previously reported (link), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in a 2016 decision (1B_85/2016) took a rather narrow approach to the scope of legal privilege in connection ...

The U.S. Government is considering adding digital currency addresses affiliated with individuals and entities identified to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons ("SDN List").