Read this article to find out several key risk areas that require significant attention by legal counsel before a US or European member of a joint venture in Asia finds it necessary to discuss a break-up, dissolution, restructuring, or buy-out of a joint venture with its foreign partner.
Virtually every business of any size can now internationally source or distribute goods, services, or intellectual property. But only the largest companies have the resources and experience to overcome differences in legal and regulatory regimes, cultural norms, language problems, and currency issues on their own. So smaller companies often turn to an international joint venture (IJV). We examine the advantages and disadvantages of IJVs, including key contract provisions and practical aspects of their structure and operation, as well as common mistakes to avoid.
As in-house counsel, you should assess what technology tools are available and their costs, advantages, and drawbacks. Early assessment and coordination with your litigation counsel and business people are paramount.
This article discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's Restricted Mass Market Investments customer journey review. The review sets out findings on firms’ compliance with new rules for promotion of high risk investments to retail clients and provides examples of good and poor practice for firms to consider.
Learn how public companies in Canada can structure their board, develop policies and procedures, handle disclosure obligations, and recent corporate governance developments.
Public- and private-sector institutional purchasers are increasingly procuring “cloud” services. Purchasers are choosing cloud services for the anticipated improvements in efficiency, agility, scalability and cost effectiveness, while not necessarily understanding the impact on their organization’s sustainability performance. In this article, in-house counsel will learn how to identify potential sustainability impacts to migrating to cloud-based services.
This session and the workshop that follows will examine the external and internal factors that affect the longer-term profitability of the organization. Participants will understand the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flow. We will also discuss how to identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.
Review of antitrust risk related to competitor collaboration.
Like the tools you keep in your house for small repairs, this panel will provide practical tips for the in-house generalist who must identifyand respond to environmental challenges and advise business leaders cogently while maximizing limited resources. The session will equip you to deal with environmental issues in three principal contexts: transactions – what situations can give rise to environmental liabilities and major environmental issues to consider in contracts, purchases and sales; litigation – causes of action for environmental matters and how to respond to notices of intent to sue, demand letters for compensation for environmental contamination and other situations; and regulation – understanding major US and international regulatory trends and non-governmental organization activity, particularly relating to product stewardship, customer and supply chain issues.
Virtual currency is growing in use and recognition. Major entities, such as Microsoft, are beginning to recognize and accept Bitcoin payments, but most in-house counsel have little familiarity with virtual currency. Learn what it is, how it functions, how it may impact your clients and what domestic and international regulatory and enforcement regimes and issues – including enforcement actions and criminal prosecutions – have arisen from the evolving world of virtual currency. We will explain and explore the answers to these questions and demonstrate a Bitcoin transaction.
Contract management can mean a number of things to a number of people. In many cases they are looking at one stage in the contract life cycle. There is money to be saved at each stage of the life cycle if you have the resources to manage your contracts rather than responding to each. Every point identified in this article will not apply to every contract, but it will give you an idea of the things to consider at each stage of the process.
Part of the 2009 Annual Meeting Program Materials for Session 408.
Learn about the UK National Security and Investment Act 2021 allowing the UK government to scrutinize and intervene in acquisitions and investments in order to protect national security.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
Finding a new, rewarding position in the legal field is never a quick and easy task. This InfoPAK will present key techniques for pursuing new positions, as well as strategies for successfully managing your career.
Understand the global legal and regulatory landscape of data privacy, specifically how it relates to the transfer of data across borders.
Companies need to make their clients, colleagues and customers feel that their information is private and secure. That's just good business. But instituting relevant privacy policies and implementing new technologies is just the tip of the data security iceberg. Risk assessments, when performed regularly, are also a critical component to ensuring the effectiveness of a privacy compliance program.
This article outlines under which conditions a purchase agreement can be dissolved under Dutch law.
Get an overview of how to start a pro bono program in your legal department or ACC chapter through guidance and best practices; and learn of specific opportunities available to in-house pro bono programs, no matter the size of the ACC chapter or legal department.
This is a checklist for EU dawn raids.
Practical tips about "Dawn Raids"
This multi-jurisdictional guide explores an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding business crime across a range of jurisdictions.
Topics covered include criminal law enforcement, corporate criminal liability, statutes of limitations, initiation of investigations, and procedures of gathering information – in 18 jurisdictions.
This InfoPAK is not a comprehensive analysis of Intellectual Property licensing, but rather, it is a discussion of the best practices and recent developments in intellectual property licensing. The core of this InfoPAK touches on issues that are fundamental to the granting of rights, as well as the assets covered by most intellectual property licenses.
This article is an introduction to the dispute resolution framework in Switzerland.
This article provides an overview of key issues that in-house or external counsel to a start-up company or smaller business should consider and address in advance of capital raising activities.
This brief guide provides high level frameworks of the operational environment, data-driven insights into law department priorities, and suggestions for continual learning to get new in-house counsel up to speed quickly.
Due to their unique properties, many products and manufacturing processes are dependent on “conflict minerals” found in the Democratic republic of the Congo. However, armed groups are using the profits from the sale of such minerals to fund local conflicts. To avoid supporting human rights violations, the SEC has developed a set of due diligence and disclosure requirements for companies to follow.
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