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PREFACE We are honored to bring to you our new book, “Newsletter 2018”. This year marks the ninth edition of our book that has been pub- lished since 2010. At the end of each year, we compile the articles that are posted monthly on our website into a book to allow our readers a collective outlook on the year’s key legal developments. We are very pleased to see that this book of articles has attracted growing attenti- on from our clients, business partners, as well as fellow practitioners over the years. While the book has been well-received by many of our readers, we maintain our impetus to further develop and expand our work. Our most significant reward is to see that the articles published, both on our website, and in our book, are frequently cited in a number of scientific studies, and are now considered to be reliable academic resources. Our Newsletter book is the product of an ongoing tradition. This tradition is to research a wide variety of legal disciplines, some of which are in new areas of law developed in parallel to meet the needs of the today’s business, and to publish this research. In our Newsletter 2018 book, you will read articles on problematic issues in practice, such as share pledges in joint stock companies and limited liability companies, prohibition of joint stock companies’ subscriptions for their own shares, premium capital increases in joint stock companies, trust liability in terms of groups of companies, contractual guarantees, and exemption clauses in commercial sales contracts. Furthermore, in this section, we also addressed the General Assembly of the Court of Cassation decision that the Unification of Judgments, where con- sent of a spouse for surety, is not required for aval. Our team also extensively wrote on competition law matters, particularly on recent developments in the right of access to files, recent developments in