This Quick Overview addresses how Bankability, or the ability to obtain banks' funding, can be a life or death sentence for any transaction requiring borrowed funds in Canada and the United States.
The main purpose of the Open Skies Agreements is to deregulate certain areas of the air transport industry in Brazil and, consequently, encourage the market to work freely, which causes various effects in liberalized markets.
These are sample intellectual property and government contracts training materials.
This roundtable discussion will include regulators from the US Department of Justice, Securities & Exchange Commission, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, along with your in-house counsel peers. With the regulators, we will cover ongoing and emerging compliance and examination issues, provide updates on regulatory changes, and keep ACC members in tune with regulators’ views, recent findings, and consent orders and compliance trends. The regulators will be asked to discuss their approaches to examinations and investigations and suggest best practices for compliance in the current environment.
Contracting with the US government is subject to a complex set of laws and regulations. This session will address rules and regulations governing intellectual property rights in federal government contracting. A panel of experts will discuss the laws and regulations applicable to funding, licensing, and commercial transactions with the US government. The panel will review myths and misconceptions and provide practical guidance for addressing ownership and control of IP rights under government contractual arrangements.
This list is a detailed analysis of select commercial and non-commercial FAR and DFARS clauses.
This primer speaks about banking regulation in France after the financial crisis.
An issue to consider when investing into Africa is high withholding taxes imposed by many African jurisdictions.
Today’s government contractors, especially those just realizing that they are government contractors, face a compliance and ethics requirements environment significantly different from that of strictly commercial companies. To address the unique compliance and ethics needs of government contractors, panelists will provide an update on recent suspension and debarment matters, awards from the False Claims Act and the lessons government contractors can learn from those decisions. This session will review the Federal Acquisition Regulations on codes of conduct and compliance programs for government contractors. Panelists will also identify strategic ways to demonstrate due diligence in managing risk to government customers, regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice.