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GCR Guide to Data & Antitrust – Competition law and data
Miranda Cole and Francesco Salis from our Brussels office are the authors of a chapter on the evolving view of data in the application of competition law.
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Canada | Publication | May 22, 2020 - 3:30 PM ET
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wear on, corporations must remain vigilant against the increased risk of fraud. Unfortunately, due to the covert nature of many fraudulent schemes, the full extent of the fallout will not likely be known for some time. It is not uncommon for the corporation responsible for the fraud to be insolvent or stripped of assets by the time the fraud is uncovered. When this happens, it is important to recovery to be able to hold the corporation’s directors and officers personally liable.
In Canada, corporate directors and officers may be held personally liable for fraudulent conduct. An organization assessing whether it has a viable claim against a director in his or her personal capacity should consider the following questions:
Victims of fraud need to act quickly and decisively to maximize their chances of recovering from current or former directors. An organization should consider taking the following immediate steps to assist counsel in the recovery process:
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Miranda Cole and Francesco Salis from our Brussels office are the authors of a chapter on the evolving view of data in the application of competition law.
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Miranda Cole, Lara White and Christoph Ritzer from our Brussels, London and Frankfurt offices are the authors of a chapter on how the interplay between competition and privacy law is affecting online advertising.
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Unannounced inspections by competition authorities, usually called “dawn raids”, are undoubtably one of the most efficient tools for collecting evidence and enforcing competition rules. They are also an area where investigators test (and sometimes exceed) the boundaries of companies’ procedural rights.
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