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The Commercial Awareness Podcast

English, News media, 3 seasons, 77 episodes, 17 hours, 57 minutes
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Commercial awareness news round-up for prospective and current UK-based corporate lawyers. (Cover art photo provided by Joel & Jasmin Førestbird)
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Episode 11: Apple Insider Trading, UK-Swiss Trade Deal, Patisserie Valerie Rescue and more

Episode eleven details stories concerning Bank of America's move, Airbus halting A380 production, Belgian strikes, JPM Coin, Morrison's equal pay case, Apple insider trading, Total's move, UK-Swiss trade agreement, Patisserie Valerie's rescue and the steady increase of investor arbitration. Links for the stories    Bank of America move https://www.ft.com/content/b9d43bba-2f7a-11e9-8744-e7016697f225 End of A380 https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbus-will-stop-building-its-a380-superjumbo-jet-11550121699 Belgian strike https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47211043 JPM Coin https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-14/jpmorgan-has-a-coin-now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47240760 Morrisons equal pay case https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47231497 Apple insider trading https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47234789 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/sec-files-insider-trading-lawsuit-against-former-apple-lawyer.html Total move https://news.sky.com/story/energy-giant-total-to-move-uk-trading-jobs-to-geneva-11637587 UK-Swiss trade agreement https://www.ft.com/content/2341f6e8-2dd5-11e9-ba00-0251022932c8  Patisserie Valerie rescue https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47238200 https://www.ft.com/content/26e91e20-3032-11e9-ba00-0251022932c8 https://www.burges-salmon.com/news-and-insight/press-releases/burges-salmon-advises-causeway-capital-partners-on-patisserie-valerie-acquisition/ https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-patisserie-hldg-m-a-causeway-capital/patisserie-valerie-rescued-by-irish-fund-causeway-idUKKCN1Q31FH?il=0 https://news.sky.com/story/patisserie-valerie-saved-by-private-equity-buyout-from-administration-11637006 Investor-state arbitration increase https://www.law.com/legal-week/2019/02/13/third-party-financers-are-fueling-investor-state-arbitration-battles-378-98321/  Contact: commawarepod@gmail.com
2/15/20197 minutes, 21 seconds
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Episode 10: KPMG Legal, Big Mac Trademark, Nissan snubs UK and more

Episode ten marks a milestone for the podcast. Links for the stories: Unilever purchase of Graze https://www.thelawyer.com/unilever-graze-deal-dla-piper-travers-smith/ Bank of England forecasts https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47155537  BB&T Corp and SunTrust merger https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-07/bb-t-and-suntrust-banks-agree-to-combine  Petrofac bribery https://www.ft.com/content/11b156e2-2ab7-11e9-88a4-c32129756dd8  Jaguar Land Rover losses https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47155145  Qantas cancels Airbus order https://www.dw.com/en/qantas-cancels-order-for-8-airbus-a380s/a-47401917  Germany restricts Facebook https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-antitrust-watchdog-restricts-facebooks-data-collection-via-other-sites/a-47402737 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-germany/germany-to-restrict-facebooks-data-gathering-activities-idUSKCN1PW0SW KPMG Legal https://www.law.com/international/2019/02/06/kpmgs-legal-arm-announces-record-growth-in-2018-396-12140/  https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/kpmg-legal-consultancy-arm-coming-to-uk-in-months/5069172.article  Nissan snubs Sunderland https://news.sky.com/story/why-it-makes-sense-for-nissan-to-build-x-trail-in-japan-11628138 https://www.ft.com/content/feb5b988-289b-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7 https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/business/washington-mp-writes-to-theresa-may-to-express-concerns-over-nissan-s-future-in-wake-of-x-trail-announcement-1-9580110 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/nissan-brexit-sunderland-japan-job-cuts-uk-eu-trade-exports-no-deal-gianluca-de-ficchy-a8760756.html McDonald's Trademark https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-legal-battle-supermacs   https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-mcdonald-s-corp-trademark-supermacs/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-case-to-irish-chain-supermacs-idUKKCN1P92JA Contact: commawarepod@gmail.com
2/8/20197 minutes, 30 seconds