McDermott Boosts International Antitrust Team
Partner Hire in Brussels Brings Heavyweight EU Competitive and Regulatory Law Experience
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announces that Hendrik Viaene has joined the Firm s international antitrust practice in Brussels as partner. He joins a dynamic, experienced and ambitious team, widely recognised for its outstanding credentials in defending multinational corporations in international cartels and regularly securing complex merger clearances in Europe.
Hendrik joins from Deloitte Legal where he led the global Centre of Expertise in Competition and Regulatory Law. His vast experience includes over 18 years at Stibbe, a Benelux law firm, where he specialised in European and Belgian antitrust law, including litigation.
January 5, 2021
MILAN/BRUSSELS January 4, 2021 Itaca Finance S.A., a company controlled by Alpha Private Equity, reached late last year an agreement for the sale of 100-percent of Savio Group to Vandewiele, a Belgium-based global group active in the construction and installation of textile machinery.
The completion of the transaction is expected in spring 2021. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Pordenone, Italy, Savio Group is a designer and manufacturer of winding machines and quality control devices for the textile industry, with operations in Italy, China, India, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Czech Republic. In 2019 Savio reported consolidated revenues of 270 million euros.
Two thirds of legal departments are currently involved in employee safety issues and they expect return-to-work policies to be one of the top legal priorities going forward, as half of Chief Legal Officers (51%) anticipate their organizations will return to a normal level of operation in the first half of 2021, according to a Deloitte survey. Regulatory issues (47%), employee benefits (44%), contractual and supply chain impact (43%) and cyber issues (42%) come next in the top of the COVID-19-related legal issues, according to the survey respondents.
The majority of legal executives (78%) indicate their workload has increased because of COVID-19, as their departments address numerous pandemic-related issues while actively participating in business continuity and cybersecurity efforts and as cost-containment measures forced reductions in workforces. According to the survey, 81% of organizations that place cybersecurity among the top three legal priorities report having a plan to handl
Deloitte is monitoring regulatory reforms but is focused on growing new practice
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As states such as Utah and Arizona have approved opening up their legal marketplaces to alternative business structures in recent months, there has been speculation that the Big Four accounting firms would be among those seeking to take advantage.
Don Fancher, a principal in Deloitte’s legal business services practice in the United States, acknowledges that his firm has been monitoring the regulatory reform developments taking place in several states.
But he says Deloitte has no current plans to apply to offer direct legal services in this country as it does in other nations.
Dublin debut for Burges Salmon
Published by: Robert Li at 11 Dec 2020 The Bristol-headquartered firm has established a branch office in Ireland to continue its European intell.
The Bristol-headquartered firm has established a branch office in Ireland to continue its European intellectual property law practice following Brexit, hiring two new trade mark professionals to do so.
Burges Salmon has opened its first office outside the United Kingdom in Dublin, providing continuity to its European Union (EU) trade mark practice once the Brexit transition period ends.
It has recruited two notable intellectual property (IP) practitioners to head up the team.
Joining as of counsel,