CMS expands in Norway

Al­though the ad­vert­ising in­dustry’s role re­mains to es­tab­lish and man­age the con­nec­tions between com­pan­ies and their products on one hand and con­sumers on the oth­er, ad­vert­ising has de­veloped con­sid­er­ably...

The func­tion­ing of the food sup­ply chain has been sub­ject to ana­lys­is by the European Com­mis­sion (the “Com­mis­sion”) since 2008. One of the main find­ings that was sub­sequently iden­ti­fied was the ex­ist­ence...

The CMS Ex­pert Guide to Dis­missals has been cre­ated to as­sist an em­ploy­er in an­ti­cip­at­ing all the pos­sible courses of events when the de­cision has been made to ter­min­ate an em­ploy­ee (i.e. end an em­ploy­ment...

In 2020, CMS signed on to the United Na­tion’s Glob­al Com­pact, the world's largest cor­por­ate so­cial re­spons­ib­il­ity ini­ti­at­ive. In Au­gust 2021, CMS suc­cess­fully filed its first an­nu­al Com­mu­nic­a­tion on Pro­gress (COP) re­port with the UN. To read the full re­port click here.In the re­port, CMS re­af­firms its sup­port of the ten prin­ciples of the United Na­tions Glob­al Com­pact in the areas of hu­man rights, la­bour, en­vir­on­ment and anti-cor­rup­tion. The Com­mu­nic­a­tion on Pro­gress is an an­nu­al dis­clos­ure to stake­hold­ers on pro­gress made in im­ple­ment­ing the ten prin­ciples of the UN Glob­al Com­pact and in sup­port­ing broad­er UN de­vel­op­ment goals.CMS re­mains com­mit­ted to run­ning its busi­ness eth­ic­ally and sus­tain­ably, in­cor­por­at­ing the UN prin­ciples in its busi­ness strategy, cul­ture and daily op­er­a­tions.To read more about how CMS is do­ing busi­ness re­spons­ibly, click here.

The Singa­pore Vari­able Cap­it­al Com­pany (VCC) is a new cor­por­ate struc­ture for in­vest­ment funds con­sti­tuted un­der the Vari­able Cap­it­al Com­pan­ies Act, which took ef­fect in Janu­ary 2020. It is the first fund-spe­cif­ic en­tity to be launched in Singa­pore and it is in­ten­ded to strengthen Singa­pore’s po­s­i­tion as a lead­ing Asi­an fund man­age­ment centre.Over the past 20+ months the CMS Singa­pore funds team have taken the time to un­der­stand the leg­al and op­er­a­tion­al prac­tic­al­it­ies of launch­ing, clos­ing and op­er­at­ing a VCC fund, which go far bey­ond the VCC Act it­self. As such, this guide re­flects our team’s col­lect­ive hands-on ex­per­i­ence of the VCC gained over mul­tiple VCC fund form­a­tion man­dates.The pur­pose of this guide is there­fore to provide an over­view of the VCC and its key fea­tures, as well as of the VCC es­tab­lish­ment pro­cess. It also ad­dresses some of the VCC ques­tions that have been fre­quently asked of us by both man­agers and in­vestors alike.

Vac­cine com­pens­a­tion re­gimes are com­plex and con­stantly chan­ging. Launch­ing such a re­gime dur­ing a glob­al pan­dem­ic cre­ates a situ­ation that is dif­fi­cult to nav­ig­ate and fraught with un­cer­tainty. Be­fore...

Coun­ter­feit­ing and il­li­cit trade are now present in al­most all in­dus­tries, with fake and sub­stand­ard goods get­ting ever harder to de­tect. Coun­ter­feit­ing and il­li­cit trade in med­ic­al products has al­ways...

Deal­makers say PE best placed to flour­ish in the next 12 months

Septem­ber 2021 We are pleased to provide you with this year’s edi­tion of the “European M&A Out­look”, pub­lished in co-op­er­a­tion with Mer­ger­mar­ket