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TAX REFORM PROPOSED BY MICHELLE BACHELET

March 13, 2014

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, elected for the period 2014-2018 and who became President on March 11, has announced a significant reform to the Chilean tax system. The goal is to increase the tax burden to finance a very ambitious educational reform.

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TAX REFORM PROPOSED BY MICHELLE BACHELET

March 13, 2014

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, elected for the period 2014-2018 and who became President on March 11, has announced a significant reform to the Chilean tax system. The goal is to increase the tax burden to finance a very ambitious educational reform.

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Charlotte Breuvart Partner at law firm Jones Day joins as Antitrust and Competition law member

March 13, 2014

Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience in antitrust (cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of a dominant position), merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). She also regularly advises on other aspects of EU law, such as free movement of goods and services, and implements learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law.

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Charlotte Breuvart Partner at law firm Jones Day joins as Antitrust and Competition law member

March 13, 2014

Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience in antitrust (cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of a dominant position), merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). She also regularly advises on other aspects of EU law, such as free movement of goods and services, and implements learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law.

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Catherine McKenzie Partner at law firm Irving Mitchell Kalichman joins as Civil and Commercial Litigation law member

March 13, 2014

A partner and member of IMK since 1997. Catherine McKenzie is a talented jurist who manages her litigation files with remarkable effectiveness.She has enviable experience in several large-scale litigation files.

 

Among other things, she has made her mark in several injunction proceedings, class action proceedings, as well as in the areas of employment and telecommunications law.

 

She has represented clients before all levels of Quebec courts, and has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Catherine McKenzie Partner at law firm Irving Mitchell Kalichman joins as Civil and Commercial Litigation law member

March 13, 2014

A partner and member of IMK since 1997. Catherine McKenzie is a talented jurist who manages her litigation files with remarkable effectiveness.She has enviable experience in several large-scale litigation files.

 

Among other things, she has made her mark in several injunction proceedings, class action proceedings, as well as in the areas of employment and telecommunications law.

 

She has represented clients before all levels of Quebec courts, and has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Women, wartime and the dream of peace

February 26, 2014

This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes. This is not a story of a nameless someone who lived in some war, who we do not know their hopes, their dreams, their accomplishments, their families, their beliefs, their values. This is my story. I was that girl. I am another image and vision of another survivor of war. I am that refugee, and I am that girl. You see, I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.

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Women, wartime and the dream of peace

February 26, 2014

This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes. This is not a story of a nameless someone who lived in some war, who we do not know their hopes, their dreams, their accomplishments, their families, their beliefs, their values. This is my story. I was that girl. I am another image and vision of another survivor of war. I am that refugee, and I am that girl. You see, I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.

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