Large Commercial Firms Research Articles

C. Jones and L. Weinert (eds), EU Competition Law Volume II: Mergers and Acquisitions* (3rd edition)

Merger notifications to the European Commission (Commission) under the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR)1 form a central part of the workload of most competition lawyers in private practice, in particular those working in the large commercial firms in Brussels and elsewhere in the European Union. Pre-Brexit, this would have been the case for their colleagues working in London and other legal centres in the UK, although many cross-border transactions that they work on will still be reviewed by the Commission, as well as by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).2 Following a slight drop in notifications in 2020

To Pass or Not to Pass: How Corporate Characteristics Affect Corporate Visibility and Tone in Company News Coverage

ABSTRACTTo pass or not to pass through the news gates? That is a key question with respect to the relationship between large commercial firms and the journalistic outlets that pub­lish news regarding them. Whereas previous research has considered how corporate communication affects media content, the focus of this study is on corporate characteristics (e.g. company size, age, location and ownership structure). Building on the gatekeeping approach, the study investigates the extent to which these characteristics affect corporate visibility in the news and tone of coverage. The characteristics of 100 large corporations in the Netherlands were combined with visibility and tone in Dutch online and print news throughout 2014 (N = 29,516). The results indicate that having more employees, being owned by the government and focusing on consumers add substantially to the explanation of corporate visibility. Furthermore, our results indicate that government-owned companies tend to be portrayed more negatively than listed firms and family businesses.

Accountability and the Regulation of the Large Law Firm Lawyer

The regulation of solicitors inEngland andWales has undergone great change in the wake of the Legal Services Act 2007. This article considers these regulatory developments through the lens of accountability, focussing on the regulation of transactional lawyers and the large commercial firms. It examines to what extent the Solicitors Regulation Authority's regulatory framework promotes accountability, examining entity regulation, outcomes‐focussed and principles‐based regulation, reporting and disclosure obligations, the Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and the sanctions system. It argues that although transactional lawyers cannot claim the benefit of the ethical principle of non‐accountability, as far as they and their firms are concerned, the regulatory framework is both unnecessary and insufficient. It duplicates the function of accountability to the client and fails to hold transactional lawyers to account for significant regulatory risks that they present, such as the practice of creative compliance.

Bridging the Urban-rural Divide? A Case Study on Rural Land Transition in Sichuan province, China

Rising concern over urban-rural economic disparity in China in the early 2000s spurred a series of policy initiatives to improve people's quality of life in rural areas. A recently launched Rural Land Transition Program in Sichuan Province aims to increase land-use efficiency and rural incomes by consolidating fragmented land plots under large commercial firms for agricultural production. In this paper, we document the scheme of implementation of the land transition project through the pilot case of Renshou Village in Sichuan Province, drawing attention to its contested premise. The paper suggests that the goals of achieving greater economies of scale in agricultural production and increasing rural incomes via land consolidation have met with mixed success.

False-Positive Western Blot Tests for Antibodies to HTLV-IIIN

To the Editor.— As part of the US Army quality assurance program for human T-cell lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) testing, we recently sent identical proficiency panels to five large commercial firms that offered HTLV-III Western blot testing on a fee-for-service basis. Each panel consisted of 15 samples from healthy, low-risk adults whose serum was repeatedly negative for HTLV-III antibodies and five samples from HTLVIII-infected (culture-documented) patients. By Western blot analysis, all five positive samples produced definite, but not strong, bands at 41 kilodaltons (kd) and other molecular weights characteristic of HTLV-III proteins. 1 Scores ranged from 85% to 100% accuracy (Table). Four of the five laboratories reported at least one falsepositive test result. The six falsepositive results were all on different normal specimens, suggesting that the errors were due to technique and not to intrinsic biologic properties of the specimens. There was a substantial range of clarity of the

THE PROGRESS OF GRASSLAND RESEARCH IN BRITAIN DURING THE LAST DECADE

GRASS still occupies about 65% of the agricultural land of the islands that make up the United Kingdom. The research effort devoted to all aspects of its growth and utilization is considerable and is carried out by many official organizations, by large commercial firms, and by a few farmers. A review of the progress during the last decade, if confined to the limits of a single paper, is in consequence likely to be biased- in the direction of the writer's own interests. I confess at the start that this review is based largely on my experiences at the Grassland Research Institute at Hurley during the last five years and draws freely on the thoughts and recollections of several of my senior colleagues.

Bancroftian filariasis : An assessment of its economic importance in Tanganyika

1. (1)Previous references to the economic importance of bancroftian filariasis are given. 2. (2) Surveys have shown bancroftian filariasis to be most prevalent in the low-lying coastal area and over most of the Southern Province, in the areas to the south of Lake Victoria and to the north of Lake Nyasa. 3. (3) The haemoglobin content of the blood of infected persons has been shown to be the same as that of non-infected persons. 4. (4) Males with either hydrocoele or elephantiasis are heavier and have higher blood pressure than normal males. 5. (5) On questioning, in the field; a small series of microfilaria carriers, it was found that nearly 50 per cent. had recurrent attacks of groin or scrotal pains compared to 34 per cent of persons without microfilaraemia ; but reports from large commercial firms in East Africa and from the Army authorities indicated that the early symptoms of filariasis were not considered of any economic importance. 6. (6) An investigation was made into. the morbidity of hydrocoele and elephantiasis cases. Between 21 per cent. and 37 per cent.. of persons with hydrocoele, and between 61 per cent. and 76 per cent. of those with elephantiasis, suffered attacks of incapacitating pain. 7. (7) It is suggested that the large number of persons with hydrocoele in infected areas (over 30 percent. adult males in some places) constitutes a severe drain on the limited hospital resources in the Territory. 8. (8) It is shown that males with hydrocoele are less fertile than those without. 9. (9) Evidence is given suggesting that women infected with W. bancrofti may be less fertile than uninfected women.

British Food Journal Volume 43 Issue 3 1941

British Food Journal Volume 43 Issue 3 1941