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Blue Bonds: Making a splash in the Capital Markets
In 2018, the Republic of Seychelles launched the first-ever “blue bond”, with the support of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
Critical to obtaining effective relief against a wrongdoing defendant is being able to serve process on that defendant in a manner that the forum hearing the dispute will deem sufficient, and that meets constitutional due process requirements for giving a defendant notice.
Sometimes, though, this is easier said than done. This is especially so when litigating matters involving cryptocurrencies and other blockchain tokens. In such cases, the defendants being sued not infrequently operate only anonymously or pseudonymously, without ever disclosing their true names, physical addresses or even their general location—and that location might be anywhere in the world.
Read the entire New York Law Journal article written by Robert Schwinger.
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In 2018, the Republic of Seychelles launched the first-ever “blue bond”, with the support of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility.
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On 8 May 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) delivered its ruling in case C-581/23 (the Ruling), providing guidance on one of the conditions for an exclusive distribution agreement to benefit from the block exemption under Article 4(b)(i) of the 2010 Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (the VBER)1, notably the so-called ‘parallel imposition requirement’.
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Antitrust authorities are increasingly aggressive in pursuing new theories of harm, pushing the boundaries of what amounts to an antitrust violation, and expanding the use of current legislation and regulation to fit a new era of issues.
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