• E-commerce - Turkey

  Policing Online Gambling

  Dülger Law Firm

  Under the Criminal Code, the facilitation of gambling is a crime and supplying equipment for the purposes of gambling is punishable by imprisonment. However, since there is no direct provision in the code for online gambling, this is more difficult for the authorities to police. In particular, gambling websites which are hosted by foreign service providers are considered to be outside the Turkish jurisdiction.

• Intellectual Property - Spain

  Appeal Court Rules on Exchange of Files on the Internet

  Grau & Angulo

  The Cantabria Court of Appeal has rendered a new judgment regarding an alleged IP crime (as set out in Article 270 of the Criminal Code) involving the exchange of works protected by copyright on the Internet. The decision is the first appeal judgment to declare, based on the absence of a commercial profit-making aim, that the offer and exchange of works on the Internet is not a criminal offence.

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• Undisclosed disposal

  Bertelsmann AG Davis Polk & Wardwell - Christopher Mayer, Michael Davis, Frank J Azzopardi, Harry Ballan, Kyoko Takahashi Lin;
  Sony BMG Music Entertainment ;
  Sony Corporation Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP ;
  Sony Music Entertainment Inc

• $287 million reverse takeover

  Cbay Systems Holdings Ltd CMS Cameron McKenna - Peter Smith; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP ; Jones Day ;
  MedQuist Inc ;
  Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV

• Ps126 million notes offer

  Gas Natural BAN SA Estudio O'Farrell - Alejandro AM Anderlic;
  HSBC Bank Argentina SA Errecondo Salaverri Dellatorre González & Burgio ;
  Banco Santander Rio SA Errecondo Salaverri Dellatorre González & Burgio ;
  Caja de Valores SA

• Undisclosed acquisition

  Source Electronics Corporation TozziniFreire Advogados - Cláudia Muniz Levasier Mahler; Greenberg Traurig LLP - Amit Mehta;
  Source Do Brasil Ltda ;
  IMA do Brasil Importação e Exportação Ltda Gouvêa Vieira Advogados - Pedro Antonio de Almeida e Silva;
  Echo Assessoria e Consultoria Ltda

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