All publications by Thomas Caveng

On September 2014, André Soulier, Chair of the Legal Affairs Commission of the French Professional Football League (LFP), was commissioned by the Board of Directors of the LFP to present in Spring 2015 a report on the hearings that are currently conducted on the issue of Third Party Ownership in the professional football industry, and to provide recommendations for the future.

We are pleased to publish this month a contribution entitled Changes to Irish Employment Permits Legislation, authored by our colleagues Ger Connolly and Jane Pilkington, partners, and Avril Daly and Caragh Deasy, associates, at the Irish law firm Mason Hayes & Curran.
As of 1 October 2014, a new employment permits regime is in force in Ireland following the commencement of the Employment Permits (Amendment) Act 2014. This contribution takes a look at the new categories of employment permits under the Act and considers how the elimination of certain gaps in the existing regime will practically affect employers and individuals alike.

Kluwer Law International, a leading publishing company, has recently announced the release of the fourth edition of the International Business Acquisitions, a desk reference book to which contributed many firms of the World Law Group.

Catherine Nommick, Chems Idrissi and Jean-Pierre Chaux have assisted the AMS Group, specialized in the trade and lease of medical devices and the supply of home care services, in connection with the acquisition of ASDIA, a provider of home healthcare services dedicated to the treatment of diabetic patients at home.

While the technological details of securing data such as encryption, firewalls and “access control mechanisms” might command the attention of data protection lawyers and industry specialists alike, many data breaches originate from simple human error. This is reflected in the case studies from the 2013 Annual Report of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.

On 1 July 2014, new, more stringent and detailed rules on takeover bids in listed companies came into force. The rules are the result of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority’s revision of the rules in this area.