The Supreme Arbitrazh Court has issued a long-awaited resolution on the deduction of value added tax (VAT) on VAT invoices containing inaccurate data and signed by unauthorized persons. The decision differs radically from its 2008 position in ZAO Kestroy-1. Corporate taxpayers should take care to demonstrate that they are not complicit with bad-faith suppliers in their contractual dealings.
The Supreme Court in Civil Matters has ruled that the Federal Patent Court is required to consider European Patent Office decisions and decisions rendered in other member states of the European Patent Convention if they pertain to similar issues, including whether an invention is novel and inventive. Hitherto, the German courts have appeared reluctant to consider decisions rendered by foreign courts.
BP plc
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP - Penelope Warne, Eleanor Layton, Stephen Millar;
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP - James C Morphy, John Evangelakos, Christine Spillane
Apache Corporation
Slaughter and May - Charles Randell, Philippe Chappatte;
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP - Patrick Oxford;
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP - Janice Buckingham, RJ Jack Thrasher, Stanley R Ebel, Peter Glossop
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Leonard Kreynin, Phillip R Mills
Citigroup Global Markets Inc
Davis Polk & Wardwell - Louis L Goldberg
General Motors Corporation
Andrews Kurth LLP - Mark S Solomon, Melinda Brunger, Jeff Dodd, Quentin Faust, Christopher Fenelon, Mark Harris, Thomas Popplewell, Lance Schuler, Sharon Ward
AmeriCredit Corpoation
Hunton & Williams LLP - Gregory J Schmitt, Douglas M Berman, Steven Leshin, Scott Austin, Jeffry Blair, Alan Amarcuis@hunton.com
Leucadia National Corporation
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP - Andrea Bernstein
The Special Committee of the Board of AmeriCredit
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP - Robert Dockery
Morgan Stanley
JP Morgan Securities Inc