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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 Singapore.

Read Sean Venden's reasons explaining why in-house counsel should have a basic knowledge of accounting and where they can gain that knowledge.

This QuickCounsel lists ways to bring your global legal team together.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses addresses limiting the right to revise user policies. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the Forum of the IT, Privacy & eCommerce ACC Network.

Looking to bring a business-focused approach to your in-house practice? Take some tips from Siemens Canada’s experience running the legal department like a business.

The antitrust landscape has changed with the advent of the Biden administration. Companies should have a compliance program in place to keep the government at bay.

Janice More, vice president, European general counsel, company secretary at HJ Heinz, and winner of the ILO and ACC Europe’s European General Counsel of the Year award, shares insight on legal department leadership in this article. More’s collaborative approach has created streamlined, strategic engagement between her in-house team members and their business and legal partners. More leverages partnerships to add value to the Heinz business.

This article looks at an approach to setting up a formal interviewing plan for a forensic engagement.

Learn how the European Union Intellectual Property Office study on AI and IP laws, published March 2, 2022, illustrates through hypothetical cases the "double-edged sword" of AI in IP protection and infringement.

This resource introduces and provides access to a virtual library of the most common usages of trade or other business practices in France, courtesy of the Centre du Droit de l'Entreprise at the University of Montpellier School of Law.

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This article reviews changes to trademark laws around the world in 2021.

In this multi-country guide, learn the rules for the protection of trade secrets in a wide range of jurisdictions.

What does the US Supreme Court's decision regarding the admission processes of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina mean for colleges and for employers?

Every year natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes, and tornadoes, impose significant environmental harms, and many of these impacts are projected to increase as climate change accelerates. The emerging field of “disaster law” has a significant overlap with environmental law, both in responding to and managing the environmental impacts of natural disasters, and in the role of insurance and compensation in managing risks. This panel will review the legal components of disaster planning and disaster response, focusing on legal challenges that companies face in planning for disasters, ensuring continuation of operations in the face of disasters, and securing government assistance, regulatory relief, and insurance recovery in the wake of such disasters.

The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

Under new policies enacted by the government, fewer small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany will be required to appoint a data protection officer (DPO). The new plans now mean that SME that have under 50 employees involved in automated processing of personal data will no longer have to appoint the DPO (the previous threshold was 20 employees).

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of merger control, regulatory framework and regulatory authorities in Singapore.

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 the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, employers with health plans that cover abortion services will have to determine whether or how to provide continued access to this relatively little-used benefit, especially in states that will automatically restrict abortion access now that the ruling has been issued, or that are expected to do so.

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.

In this multi-country guide, learn about the rules on approaching investors in different jurisdictions, in relation to an offer or issue of shares.

A short briefing regarding the European Commission's proposed Regulation on a European approach for Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’).

This is a sample indemnity agreement for the indemnification of the company by its stockholder, in connection with the company's issuance of new stock certificates after the loss of such certificates by the stockholder.

The ACC Australia Ethics Handbook V4 has been developed by a committee of in-house peers and provides a range of practical information, scenarios and case studies to help guide your approach to ethical issues as they arise. We encourage you to review the document and revisit it frequently to help navigate the evolving ethical complexities of in-house legal practice.