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Q&A with Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law

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A Q&A with Advisory Board member Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law.

Q&A with Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law

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A Q&A with Advisory Board member Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law.

Incomplete Tax Expenses

Sergey Pepeliaev

Economists are very robust in pushing their ideas forward into legislation, and lawyers often pay no attention to the legal inconsistency of such innovations.

Q&A with Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law

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A Q&A with Advisory Board member Panayotis Bernitsas at Bernitsas Law.

Basel III and New Challenges for Lending to Commercial Developments

Verrill Dana

Q&A with Florian Schneider, Managing Partner of Dentons Russia

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A question and answer session with Florian Schneider, the managing partner of "Law Firm of the Year," Dentons Russia.

Hot Topics in Bank Supervision

Alston & Bird

What's Wrong with WhatsApp?

Matthew Critchley

A court in Brazil temporarily blocked access to WhatsApp on the basis that its owner had shown “total disrespect for Brazilian laws." What happens now?

Clean Energy: Arena's Grant Funding and the New Clean Energy Innovation Fund

Clare Corke

On 23 March 2016, the Turnbull Government announced the establishment of a $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) to provide debt and equity funding for clean energy projects.

Copyright in Cyberspace: Read the Fine Print

Alastair Donaldson

Copyright is an exclusive right to do things like copying, reproduction, performance or communication of subject matter that qualifies for copyright protection.

Supreme Court of New Jersey Affirms Rules as to Priority of Discretionary Advance Mortgages

Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti

An Imprudent Customer and His Money Reunited: Fos Imposes A New Duty On Banks To Prevent Fraud

Michael Chaaya

"The Financial Ombudsman Service Australia (FOS) issued a Determination whereby a bank had to reimburse a customer for money sent to an offshore ‘boiler room’ known to the bank to be a scam."

The Great Reckoning

John Ettorre

Eight years after the financial crisis, aftereffects continue to ripple through the financial sector.

Registering Advertising Slogans as Trademarks in the United States and Europe

Christian Lemke

Brand owners seeking to obtain exclusive rights in their advertising slogans for campaigns encompassing the United States and Europe should bear in mind certain well-established principles.

Q&A with Konstantin Mikhel at Vlasova Mikhel & Partners

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A Q&A with Konstantin Mikhel of Vlasova Mikhel & Partners about his experiences and the legal field in Belarus.

Q&A with Franklin Hoet-Linares of Venezuela’s Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque

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An interview with Franklin Hoet-Linares of Venezuela’s Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque.

Q&A with Patrick Monahan and Andrew Tulloch of Colin Biggers & Paisley

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Patrick Monahan and Andrew Tulloch talk about their work with Colin Biggers & Paisley.

ECOFIN reaches political agreement on Anti-Tax Avoidance

Mariano Roca López

EU finance ministers reached a new agreement March 13 to tackle aggressive tax schemes in the EU.

Is That Famous Song Protected by Copyright? Maybe Not – and the Change Means Refunds for Some

Michael B. Fein

In the past few years, copyrights on some famous songs have been deemed invalid, which means that licensees who were charged royalty payments may be able to get their money refunded.