• Employment & Labour - Luxembourg

  Dismissal for refusing to attend a medical assessment

  It appears that an employer can require an employee who is unfit for work to submit to an assessment by a doctor of the employer's choice, as such assessments seem to have been accepted in case law. Can an employee refuse to undergo such an assessment? If he or she refuses, what recourse does the employer have?

• Insolvency & Restructuring - Greece

  Adoption of UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

  Parliament is shortly due to adopt the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. This will make Greece one of several EU member states to have amended national insolvency rules in line with the model rules, thereby creating a set of rules that will complement the provisions of the EU Insolvency Regulation.

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• $7 billion disposal

  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

• $3.5 billion acquisition

  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

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