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Learn about the UK government's plans to formulate and improve right and opportunities for ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.

Transfer pricing remains at the top of the agenda for multinational groups who are facing the prospect of radical change to international tax rules as the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project delivers its proposals for reform. This primer addresses the impact of these important issues for 23 European countries.

Briefing on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in international agreements

This multi-jurisdictional guide explores issues in gambling laws and regulations.

Topics covered include relevant authorities and legislation, application for a license, license restrictions, digital media, enforcement, and liability.

The EU AI Act is hotly anticipated as being a benchmark AI law that other jurisdictions might look towards when developing their own laws (much like GDPR has become a standard upon which some other countries’ own laws are based). First, much like the GDPR in terms of impact, the EU AI Act will have an extra-territorial scope, extending to providers and users of AI outside the EU where the output is used in the EU. Secondly, the Act does lay down fixed penalties for certain infringements of the Act, the highest fine being 30,000,000 EUR or 6% of a company’s total worldwide annual turnover (3% in the case of an SME or start-up) for non-compliance with the prohibitions of AI practices.

This article examines, from an English law perspective, the legal issues you need to be familiar with whether you are engaged in data scraping (either directly or through a third party), or if you are concerned that your content is being scraped and exploited without your consent.

Good business and good lawyering is more than just about making money. In this article, in-house counsel can learn about a peculiar start-up and how they made their mission a success.

Learn how the in-house team now holds the key to driving change to value focused engagement models.

The Legal Operations Maturity Model is being provided in an excel format for our members convenience.

Although it may sound simple enough, transferring an employee to a company’s foreign office is a substantial undertaking for both offices involved. Drafting an effective secondment agreement can help you avoid potential disputes over any number of key terms. Learn to carefully prepare such an agreement, first, and have a successful secondment.

The impacts of climate change are upon us and corporations now face the ramifications. In this article, in-house counsel will learn about emerging duties that are impacted and affected by this climate crisis.

Your company can use assets and preserve capital by leasing commercial equipment. Learn to identify an agreement that will deliver tangible benefits — secure warranties on the equipment, protect capital and credit lines, and give your client tax advantages, among others.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding corporate tax across a range of jurisdictions.

Some topics covered include the macro-economic factors caused by the war in Ukraine, the associated global inflation, and the remaining pressure on the capacity of tax administrations.

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

In a push to increase consumer understanding around the meaning of "carbon neutral" and "net zero" claims, the UK Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) have provided some updated guidance on misleading environmental claims and social responsibility in advertising. The guidance is intended to help encourage transparency and consensus of environmental-related claims in British advertising.

This article has been developed based on existing Code rules, rulings and a review of environmental claims and issues in advertising. This will be key for the air travel, energy and automotive sectors. The focus is on carbon neutral and net zeros adverts, as they are the most commonly encountered claims.

This is a sample software license agreement.

The accumulation of information and documents creates compliance risks, drives up the cost of ediscovery and hampers employee productivity. Learn how to create an effective program that can have a measurable impact on the business.

This is a checklist of regulatory sources of training requirements for registered broker dealers.

An overview of the process necessary to enter corporate litigation. Includes guides to preparing for litigation, litigation holds and internal discovery, outside litigation counsel, conducting effective investigations for litigation or government reviews, paying for litigation, and settlement.

Learn about certain provisions of Quebec's privacy protection act which come into force September 22, 2022 and a chcklist for organizations to prepare for compliance on governance, breach response, and with commercial transactions.

In this Quick Overview, learn more about the guidelines, coverage, compliance responsibilities, and personal information qualifications present in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series which provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in jurisdictions around the world.

By learning how to properly utilize jury consultants, in-house counsel can build upon their litigation expertise and highlight areas of the process that may be misunderstood.

This Quick Overview addresses when and how to oppose a trademark application in Canada. Those familiar with the process in the United States will find it much the same.

Three Party Master Depositor Escrow Service Agreement for the United Kingdom

This article discusses how DuPont's law department is using technology to create a virtual law firm, by fostering collaboration among its in-house staff, its outside law firms, and its serious providers.

As more companies reach across borders, in-house counsel must juggle ethical rules from different countries and avoid ethical problems. Does one country respect the attorney–client privilege or legal professional privilege that other countries offer? What happens when in-house lawyers and their clients work in different countries? And how can lawyers make sure that they have authorization to practice in all of the countries where they need to advise clients? Discover the answers to these ethical questions and others, to better navigate the globe.