Thomas McGuire

Mar 14, 2024 | lexblog.com | Sean Finan |Thomas McGuire |Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly is a partner in the European Life Sciences group and also co-chair of Covington’s Global Food Industry Group. Brian’s practice focuses on EU food and drug regulatory law, public and administrative proceedings, EU procurement advice and challenges, internal investigations, European Union law, and product liability and safety.

Mar 14, 2024 | lexology.com | Sean Finan |Brian Kelly |Thomas McGuire

A UK judge has decided that Odysea Ltd, an artisan food company, can use the word “raw” to describe its small-batch, minimally‑processed honey. Judge Neville, of the First‑tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber), gave the decision on 26 February 2024. The judgement is available here and opens with a classic reference to Winnie the Pooh:“The things that make me different are the things that make me me”, said Piglet, who must have seen quite a bit of honey eaten over the years.

Dec 21, 2023 | lexology.com | David Lorello |Emanuel Ghebregergis |Thomas McGuire

On 18 December 2023, the Council of the European Union (the “Council”) adopted a new package of economic sanctions against Russia. As we had outlined in our previous alert, this12th package of sanctions includes a range of new measures such as the wind down of an existing exemption allowing the provision of restricted business services to subsidiaries of EU companies, new export and import sanctions, an import ban in relation to Russian diamonds and new asset-freezing designations.

Jul 3, 2023 | lexblog.com | David Lorello |Emanuel Ghebregergis |Thomas McGuire

On 23 June 2023, the Council of the European Union (the “Council”) adopted a new package of economic sanctions against Russia. In addition to new asset-freezing designations, this eleventh package of sanctions includes new trade, transport and financial restrictive measures.

Feb 14, 2023 | lexology.com | Jennifer Saperstein |Steven E. Fagell |Nancy Kestenbaum |Eric Carlson |Benjamin Haley |Gerald Hodgkins | +26 more

What You Need to Know:The number of resolved enforcement actions and the amount of monetary sanctions recovered in 2022 approximately doubled in the United States compared to 2021. International coordination is as strong as it ever has been—all of the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ” or the “Department”) corporate enforcement actions in 2022 (excluding declinations) involved parallel resolutions with foreign enforcement authorities.