Stibbe attends IBA's Annual Conference in Vienna

Short Reads - Op 1 januari 2020 is de wettelijke streefcijferregeling vervallen. Diversiteit in de top van het bedrijfsleven staat echter onverminderd in de belangstelling. Op 7 februari 2020 is bekend geworden dat het kabinet nog dit voorjaar komt met een wetsvoorstel voor een wettelijk diversiteitsquotum voor de raden van commissarissen van beursvennootschappen.

Articles - In a groundbreaking judgment, the Belgian Supreme Court (Court of Cassation) states that the investigating judge may order a suspect to provide the access code of his mobile phone. Hans Van Bavel and Charlotte Conings, our specialists in criminal law, shed a light on the judgment.

Seminar - Stibbe will host its annual Debt Finance seminar in Amsterdam on Thursday 6 February. The seminar will feature our lawyers discussing the most vital legal developments and the impact on national and international financing practice.

Short Reads - In its first pay-for-delay case, the ECJ has clarified the criteria determining whether settlement agreements between a patent holder of a pharmaceutical product and a generic manufacturer may have as their object or effect to restrict EU competition law. The judgment confirms the General Court’s earlier rulings in Lundbeck and Servier (see our October 2016 and December 2018 newsletters) in which it was held that pay-for-delay agreements (in these cases) constituted a restriction ‘by object’.