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USA Recht | 10. April 2012 — Zwei lesenswerte Entscheidungen zur Frage der Nachfolgehaftung im Falle eines Assetkaufvertrages. Evans v. Sterling Chemicals (5th Cir. 10/13/11) (successor Liability/Amendment of ERISA Plan through Asset Purchase Agreement in bankruptcy); Hier die Entscheidung: In the United States Court…
USA Recht | 5. April 2012 — GRAND RAPIDS – An Okemos woman has filed a $5 million federal lawsuit because Starbucks’ special coffee portions are no longer available for her single-serving coffee brewing system. Paula Montgomery, who is seeking class-action status for her lawsuit, bought a Kraft Foods “Tassimo” system de…
USA Recht | 30. März 2012 — The United States Sentencing Commission’s Final Quarterly Data Report for fiscal year 2011 is now available on the Commission’s website. The report includes an extensive set of tables and charts presenting fiscal year quarterly data on cases in which the offender was sentenced during fiscal y…
USA Recht | 27. März 2012 — Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the resolution of an enforcement action under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) involving the Tulsa based company, BizJet. The company is in the business of providing aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services (MRO) to custom…
USA Recht | 24. März 2012 — Compliance practitioners are continually tasked with moving a company’s culture of compliance forward. However, the day-to-day work is sometimes too granular to see results. In an article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Creating Sustainable Performance”…
USA Recht | 21. März 2012 — “What, Me Worry?” is one of my favorite all-time slogans. Anyone who grew up on the 60s or 70s recognizes this comes from Alfred E. Neuman, the enigmatic face of Mad Magazine. While this phrase certainly had its uses for us teenagers back then, it is not a by-word for how the compliance pract…
USA Recht | 9. März 2012 — More than 900,000 business entities have their legal home in Delaware including more than 50% of all U.S. publicly-traded companies and 63% of the Fortune 500. Businesses choose Delaware because we provide a complete package of incorporation services including modern and flexible corporate l…
USA Recht | 3. März 2012 — The cornerstone of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance program is the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG). They contain seven (7) basic compliance elements that can be tailored to fit the needs and financial realities of any given organization. From these seven compliance ele…
USA Recht | 28. Februar 2012 — A distributor can be generally defined as a company or individual who purchases a product from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and then independently sells that product to an end user. A distributor takes title, physical possession and owns the products. The distributor then sells th…
USA Recht | 27. Februar 2012 — In a post last week on his site, Corruption, Crime and Compliance, Mike Volkov named the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) his “Person of the Year”. He did so because “There is no other position in a company which has taken on more significance.” This significance was foretold, in part, by the …
USA Recht | 23. Februar 2012 — Institute of Legal Reform, Legal Reform News Daily, mehr zum Thema: GE Healthcare to Pay $30 Million to Settle False Claims Act …
USA Recht | 21. Februar 2012 — Ropes & Gray LLP As of January 1, 2012, New York State employers became subject to the requirements of the state’s new Wage Theft Prevention Act (the “WTPA”). The WTPA imposes significant new requirements on New York employers. More about it under [...] United States First Notices Under N…
USA Recht | 20. Februar 2012 — In an article in the December 2011 issue of Compliance Week Magazine, entitled “Board Checklist: What Every Director Should Know”, author Jaclyn Jaeger reported on a panel discussion at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2011 Annual Meeting, held in October. The discussion was centered on…
USA Recht | 19. Februar 2012 — For 100 years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been standing up for American businesses—large and small. We’ve fought to ensure the business community has a seat at the table, a voice in the debate, and a stake in the policy decisions that influence America’s future. Throughout this year, we…
NIETZER & HÄUSLER | 17. Februar 2012 — ... und Jorgos Brouzos): US Artikel im Schweizer Handelsblatt Der transatlantische Wettbewerb zwischen europäischen und amerikanischen Firmen etwa findet zwar auf den Märkten statt – aber immer mehr auch vor ... Fälle eigentlich gar nichts mit dem Gerichtsstand USA zu tun haben», sagt der …
