This week's Legal & Corporate News Roundup includes details on Ant Group's IPO, Kennedys salary news, Japan's credit card number shortage, and Mór gins legal challenge against Revenue.
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Legal & Corporate News Roundup
This week's Legal & Corporate News Roundup round up includes news on Airbnb's IPO, Apple crossing the $2 trillion threshold, the fallout over the Oireachtas Golf Society function, and other stories from the legal and corporate world.
Foxrock Academy: Commercial & Current Affairs Awareness Quiz – August 2020
This is the second in our monthly series of quizzes which aim to test your knowledge of the type of topics that come up in casual legal and business conversations. All of the answers to this quiz can be found in our Legal & Corporate News Roundup articles, so make sure you keep reading them…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
This week's Legal & Corporate News Roundup features articles on: the U.K.'s collapse into recession, Mastercard's continuing M&A spree, Tech giants being sued for GDPR breaches, and other stories from around the legal and business world.
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
In this week's Legal & Corporate News Roundup, we discuss: the EU Commission's investigation into Google's acquisition of Fitbit, Goldman Sachs' new M&A app, TikTok's Irish expansion plans, and some career opportunities for legal graduates.
Clock strikes twelve for TikTok
Social media platform TikTok has made news headlines around the world recently, because Donald Trump has said that its U.S. operations must be sold to a “very American” company by 15 September, or it will be banned in the United States. In this article, we’ll take a brief look at what has led to this situation, what it means from a legal perspective, and consider what might happen next.
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup where we share headlines and brief summaries of notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. These articles provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to date with current legal and business affairs. If you’d like to…
What’s going on with M&A activity in 2020?
The first half of 2020 has been fairly quiet… if you’re involved in mergers and acquisitions that is. For everyone else, there’s trade wars between the largest economies in the world, the looming spectre of Brexit to disrupt the EU, and the president of the U.S. fomenting civil unrest in his own country. Oh, and…
Legal & Corporate News Roundup
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup where we share headlines and brief summaries of notable news stories from around the world, along with a link for those seeking further information. These articles provide a quick and easy way for readers to stay up to date with current legal and business affairs. If you’d like to…
Foxrock Academy Insights: Schrems II, the importance of data protection, and the power of a law student
Last Thursday, 16 July 2020, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a decision that will reportedly “impact nearly every business, small to large”. In this article we will outline: The history of the case (referred to interchangeably in legal circles as the “Privacy Shield case” and “Schrems II”).What the decision means from a legal…