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In-house counsel are accustomed to the ritual of negotiating NDAs to prevent unauthorized use and disclosure of their company's confidential and proprietary information, but they often overlook the perils of overnegotiating NDAs. This article highlights these perils and offers practical tips for drafting and negotiating NDAs for U.S. and international companies in order to quickly conclude an NDA that conscientiously protects confidential and proprietary information, without the unnecessary extras.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in Germany.

Corporate counsel in every industry are facing new and more frequent challenges in dealing with fraud and corruption. As companies grow and expand, gaining knowledge about how to identify and confront these issues is vital to counsel. The key to detecting and preventing fraud and corruption is vigorous employment screening protocols.

You are deputy general counsel of a Fortune 500 children’s entertainment conglomerate. One day, the vice president of marketing comes into your office and says, “We need to form a tight bond with the Fish Are Friends, Not Food Foundation. They are doing amazing work and getting great press for it. We need their brand to promote our new character, ‘Smiley the Shark.’” If you’re unsure of what steps to take to get the deal done, read this article.

This course is intended to provide an overview of EU competition law and to help you recognize and deal with "red flags" — situations that present a risk of competition-law violations and legal liability.

What is the small law department’s role when a natural or man-made disaster impacts your operations or those of a key business partner? What if the company doesn’t have a plan in place and you have to provide immediate advice? Emerge from this session better equipped to respond<br />when disaster strikes, with the rudiments of a plan in mind and with the desire to fully develop that plan while things are calm!

The paperless office is a mirage. We’ve had the technology to go mostly paperless since the early ‘90s. But our paper usage has grown right along with our data volumes, consuming 15 percent of our physical office space. For over a decade, the legal framework and our technological infrastructure have made digital signatures a far superior alternative to ink. This article advocates executing documents digitally.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in the United Kingdom.

Your company has one opportunity to make a good, or at least a competent, first impression to promptly defuse a situation. You can use the media effectively to present balanced facts to the public following a crisis, to neutralize biased or inaccurate reporting, and to improve your reputation. As in-house counsel, you should be involved on the front line from the beginning. This article shows you how to develop an effective media relations plan, not only to minimize the negatives, but also to accentuate the positives.

This Top Ten focuses on the important inquiries counsel should make when entertaining the idea of an automated management system for outside counsel work.

A 42-page guide by Dentons regarding the AI journey - opening eyes to opportunity and risk.

2015 was a record year for M&A, both in volume and the total value of corporate megadeals. Governments around the world have noticed, scrutinizing such deals for anticompetitive practices and reviewing pending and even sometimes completed mergers. This changing regulatory environment has raised the uncertainties and risks of M&A, particularly on the selling side. Mitigate these risks by assessing and evaluating the relevant regulatory landscape and including conditions — such as reverse termination fees, or hell-or-high- water provisions — in purchase agreements.

This top ten article contains tips on how to mitigate a crisis as quickly and efficiently as possible with the least amount of exposure to your company as possible.

Learn about legal issues related to the metaverse, including intellectual property, Game Industry Promotion Act/Election Transaction Act, and privacy.

The ACC & Laurence Simons EMEA Legal Department Survey 2013 builds on previous research, confirming established trends and revealing new ones. As the economic downturn continues to bite across Europe and company executives, including general counsel and heads of legal, look to respond accordingly. This is having a clear impact on the way legal departments are managing their workloads, budgets and are being staffed. In particular, company executives, are on the whole looking to respond to increasing pressures of cost containment — to continue to do more with less.

This article focuses on the antitrust (competition) issues that can arise in US mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, for which certain U.S. government agencies exercise oversight, what must be done to obtain their approval for those transactions to close, and the direction of government policy on antitrust M&A review, which has shifted under the Biden administration from a decades-long relatively “hands-off,” tolerant, laissez-faire policy to a markedly more interventionist, activist policy, which all dealmakers must be aware of and account for in planning and structuring their transactions. Following the discussion are “Deal Points” on important considerations in the purchase or sale of a business: what to do, and what at all costs not to do.

The tax reforms that most countries are currently facing are numerous and difficult, and temptation is high to reinforce strongly the legal means given to tax administrations to seek and collect information aimed at increasing much needed tax collections. However, the interaction between tax administrations and the taxpayer needs to be balanced and neutral from unjustified suspicion. The new powers granted to tax administrations cannot be limitless or go beyond the higher principles that govern our democracies.

In this article, key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device industry laws and compliance in Italy.

This briefing considers the potential impact of smart contracts upon various industry sectors, outlines the nature of smart contracts, their connection with blockchain technology, whether they are legally binding, and examines contractual issues and potential obstacles to their uptake.

China is at a turning point. Propelled to 
be the world’s second largest economy 
by thirty years of exponential GDP
 growth, China now faces a slowdown and significant macro-economic questions. Compounding this is the constant, and dramatic, evolution of the global economic landscape. China’s response will determine its own role on the world stage for at least the next thirty years and significantly impact the rest of the world.

On June 13, 2022, the US Supreme Court resolved a long-standing circuit split holding that broad U.S.-style discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 is not available in private foreign arbitrations. In the past decade, litigants in international arbitrations had been trying to use section 1782 more frequently to obtain comprehensive discovery that would otherwise typically be unavailable in arbitration abroad. While the Supreme Court has ostensibly put an end to that practice, the possibility of further litigation over section 1782 remains, as parties are likely to test the boundaries of the Supreme Court’s decision.

This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in the United Arab Emirates.

This article on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) focuses on the preliminary documentation used to frame an M&A transaction, usually Memorandums of Understanding (“MOUs”), Letters of Intent (“LOIs”) and Term Sheets (each or collectively, a “Preliminary Document”). Following the discussion are “Deal Points” on important considerations in the purchase or sale of a business: what to do, and what at all costs not to do.

In this article, learn about insolvency questions regarding crypto assets.

Approach your internet enforcement program as a war: it should be directed toward a defined and attainable objective. This article provides a brass-tacks approach to setting up an effective program for trademark protection on the web.