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Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

Learn about risks in China for app operators when implementing third-party services and products.

This article reviews principal corporate, commercial and regulatory (compliance) considerations when forming exempt from ICA registration Private Funds.

With extreme economic pressures and tightening budgets, everyone is being
asked to cut costs. Whether you have a small, medium or large legal
department, using the right strategies and resources can help you meet these
goals. This session will examine managing a law department budget, managing
IP, managing contracts and other topics relevant to your practice, all with
an eye towards controlling costs. With these suggestions, you can save
money and improve your efficiencies.

As companies grow increasingly reliant on their IT systems, they have turned to third party providers to alleviate some infrastructure concerns. Learn more about how to choose an outside contractor so that your company's information is safeguarded while still meeting your budget forecasts.

Includes over 350 tips on contracts, employment, intellectual property, Sarbanes-Oxley, litigation, and corporate dynamics, to help guide you through that thrilling-but difficult-first year in the chief legal officer's chair.

Read this article and learn a practical step-by-step approach for transforming your company's well-intentioned workplace policies and procedures into a system that delivers.

This article discusses China's new regulation on generative artificial intelligence. The new regulations are coming into light in the midst of new generative AI tools being introduced by several major Chinese technology providers.

This also marks China as one of the first countries globally that has direct government oversight over this nascent area of technology.

Learn about key ESG regulatory trends in the United Kingdom, relevant in particular for investment banks and their listed clients.

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 Hong Kong.

Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company.

User-generated content and influencer marketing allow organisations to engage more closely with consumers. However, both carry legal and reputational risk. In-house legal teams are uniquely placed to add value to their organisations by recognising and responding to these risks.

A general overview of the dynamics of chartering a merchant ship.

It may surprise you to learn that while other professions leverage data analytics to support their day-to-day functions, only a little over half of legal professionals have considered automating work processes using big data. To encourage progress within the legal department, in-house counsel should explore new and unconventional ways to capture and analyze data — paving the way for future success.

A Checklist of best practices for public companies and their counsel to consider when the company and its employees are active in social media. This Checklist offers suggestions in dealing with the limitations and challenges that federal securities laws place on the use of social media and avoiding violations of the securities laws. This Checklist also covers social media use during sensitive disclosure periods, such as during securities offerings and proxy solicitations.

Learn the Top Ten considerations in-house counsel need to know when handling sensitive Protected Health Information ("PHI") and/or Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") in a healthcare setting in the United States, including the unique set of risks associated with this handling of data.

If your company operates in the area of hazardous materials, you need to have a comprehensive plan in place to deal with sudden environmental emergencies. This article describes the fundamentals of a comprehensive emergency plan that deals with environmental disasters and presents the precise steps that should be taken, on an hour-by-hour basis, to implement the plan following a disaster.

Aryeh Friedman, chief privacy officer and senior compliance counsel at Dun & Bradstreet, discusses his views on the current state of compliance, as well as how to build an effective program.

Read a summary of key developments in California environmental law to consider in 2023.

A detailed handbook on art collection in the Netherlands.

Learn about how the Human Resources function can help to measure their organization's performance regarding the Social dimension of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).

This practice profile is about the experiences of law departments at seven companies and a national law firm that, for varying reasons, decided to move some legal services to outside providers in the United States. It also describes service models used by some to in-source work that might have otherwise been performed by outside law firms. Featured corporate law departments are: Alcoa, Inc., American Express, DuPont, Golden West Financial; 3M, Reebok, and The Finish Line, Inc.

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 Germany.

Doing Business in Digital Era - session held in Sydney 1 December 2016.

Doing Business in a Digital Era: where is the law up to? - presentation held in Canberra 16 June 2017.

This article highlights the redefinition of general counsels’ role – from their contribution at the top table to their place at the heart of business operations.

This article highlights the redefinition of general counsels’ role – from their contribution at the top table to their place at the heart of business operations.