Vodafone Netherlands has acquired Dutch ICT services provider mITE Systems on 30 September 2015. mITE Systems provides advisory, sales, implementation and support services in the Netherlands in the field of Enterprise Mobility Management. mITE is one of the leading Enterprise Mobility Management companies in the Netherlands. Vodafone has acquired mITE to meet the increasing demand of professional administration and security […]
ODI Managing partner, Uroš Ilić, gives a recap of the legal market in the Balkans in 2015 in the February issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine. To read the article, click to follow the link below. Link to ODI article
With the upcoming deadline for submitting tax returns employees often also ask if it is possible for them to also deduct gifts that they have provided during the past year. Employees have the same opportunities as entrepreneurs in this regard. Employers deduct gifts provided by their employees in the annual tax settlement. An employee must […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Shai Kuttner of BWK Partners. Shai has joined as our exclusive Mergers & Acquisitions member in The Netherlands. Shai was the founding partner of a midsize international law firm in Amsterdam in 1994. He and a team of his colleagues joined forces with […]
On 10 February 2016 the government approved what is probably the most controversial law in recent years: Electronic records of sales. Out of a total of 145 MPs present 105 voted in favour of the new law. The introduction of compulsory records will be gradual. Firstly it will apply to restaurant and hotels, then […]
THE financial services sector is expected to experience an uptick in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity worldwide as it continues to stabilise following the 2008 financial crisis. Law firm Allen & Overy, which specialises in corporate and M&A law, said the top three target sectors for M&A activity last year had been industrial and manufacturing, […]
South Africa’s Competition Commission has recommended the Competition Tribunal approve Tegeta Exploration & Resources’ acquisition of Glencore’s Optimum Holdings, including the Optimum coal mine, the Optimum coal terminal and the Koornfontein mines, for Rand 2.15 billion ($136 million) provided no employees are retrenched as a result. The commission said in a statement Thursday it had […]
Windhoek – Sub-Saharan Africa was the preferred destinations mergers and acquisition deals during the last quarter of 2015, with the region attracting US$41.1 billion in mergers and acquisition, a whopping 283 percent year-on-year increase in the value of merger and acquisition transactions for the region. The latest report this week by Thomson Reuters declared that […]
We have been handling divorce cases between Japanese and foreigners, mainly US husband. Please see the most recent development of the court of Japan in relation to the parental alienation. [PDF] Parential Allianation
On 1 February 2016, an amendment to the Consumer Protection Act took effect. The amendment particularly introduces out-of-court resolution of consumer disputes. Until February, if consumers felt that their rights were affected, they could only resolve their disputes before court. Now, however, they may turn to the Czech Trade Inspection Authority or another state-authorized entity […]
Until recently there was some uncertainty over whether employees’ work e-mails or other activities could be checked during working hours. Because they were afraid of incurring possible sanctions due to a violation of their employees’ right to privacy employers had tended to resign themselves to the fact that they could not carry out extensive monitoring […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Brian Meegan of Evergent Law. Brian has joined IR as our exclusive Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate member in the US – Colorado . Brian focuses his corporate practice primarily on business transactions, such as: mergers/acquisitions, business formation and structure, contract negotiation, […]
