Competition with distributors: when do principals and agents compete? - presentation held in Sydney 9 March 2017.
In this multi-country guide, learn about the rules on marketing alternative investment funds in Europe.
This article shows how employers should keep abreast of the updates on Employment Law and take more caution when handling employees’ dismissal matters. (Hong Kong)
This article discusses how trustees frequently have to consider a bankrupt’s dealings with banks and bankrupts often allege misconduct on the part of a bank.
The main objective of security of payment legislation operating in each state of Australia is to ensure continued cash flow to a contractor, even where there is an ongoing dispute about payment or a set-off claim by a principal.
This brief article addresses the restructuring of commercial debt in Puerto Rico.
New security measures to protect company's information are being tested throughout the world. With General Data Protection (GDPR), employees have a right to see where privacy and security meet. In this article, new security measures are discussed within the frame of GDPR.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in Hong Kong.
Australia has been through a remarkable period of tort reform. Major reforms of the liability system have been implemented in an extraordinarily short period of time, compared to the usual slow pace of legislative change. If you are a prospective defendant, you should be aware of some important consequences of these changes when facing litigation in Australia. The old rules and assumptions regarding the value of a claim may not necessarily apply.
The straight line may result in the shortest distance, but it is not always the best path. Your company wants to sell its products in Nicaragua, but learns it is less expensive and burdensome to import its products through Guatemala. How about setting up an insurance underwriter in the European Union? Most people think London would be the best location, but setting up the underwriter in Malta, with less cost and regulation, can get your company started and running more quickly. A panel of experts will discuss different approaches on how to enter international markets by using international treaties and agreements.
With acute attention from the legal department, a company’s knowledge assets can grow to become one of its greatest strengths — instead of one of its greatest areas of risk.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview and practical analysis for public procurement issues and procedures in the United Kingdom.
This is a sample supplier security requirements and expectations.
This article explains how in-house counsel can advise their clients who desire to terminate international distributors and agents.
This InfoPAK is designed to provide corporate counsel with a general overview of intellectual property and to suggest useful practices for the handling of intellectual property in the corporate setting.
Your company has just announced it will be filing for reorganization under chapter 11. First, take a deep breath. Now what? You and your team have a staggering amount of work to accomplish in a short period of time, without any guarantee of success or even employment upon completion. Plan appropriately and your company’s story might not end at chapter 11.
This is a form master software agreement prepared from the perspective of a licensor looking to license an enterprise customer to install and use its software system.
Overview of termination of employment rules under Mexican labor law.
The Netherlands, located in Northwest Europe, has an open economy that heavily depends on foreign trade. It borders the North Sea, Belgium and Germany and therefore plays an important role as a European transportation hub. Foreign entrepreneurs who wish to conduct business in the Netherlands will benefit from this article’s review of the Dutch approach to decision-making. On the work floor, employers and employees search for mutual interests, creating a culture of consensus. Collective bargaining takes place per sector of industry instead of being business-based. This article discusses direct participation by employees within the company in the Netherlands and in other European countries and, subsequently, indirect participation through unions.
Any business organizations and institutions have an option of entering into corporate guarantee agreement for obtaining funds, or the capital. The implications of corporate guarantee are far-reaching, and its execution requires a tedious examination of facts of each case. This article attempts to analyze the law on this subject and provide an overview on laws governing corporate guarantee.
Currently, an open-ended investment fund in Hong Kong can only take the form of a unit trust. However, Hong Kong based managers will soon have the choice of an alternative structure, the open-ended fund company (“OFC”), for establishing investment funds in Hong Kong. The objectives of introducing OFC is to offer an alternative legal structure for setting up local funds and to attract more funds to domicile in Hong Kong.
Get your pencils ready and don't be shy, because this program is not a panel of speakers telling you how to draft and negotiate a contract. Instead, you’ll get hands on experience with your peers on drafting those challenging provisions facing in-house counsel. Additionally, through interactive discussions, you will share and learn from your colleagues best practices on how a legal department can become a better facilitator in the contracting process within your organization.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview of privacy rules and principles in China..
This InfoPAK (now known as an ACC Guide) provides a "question & answer" guide to corporate crime, fraud and investigations in Germany. This guide gives a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse. In addition, it summarizes money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing.
A look at alternative billing as the concept is applied to an everyday transaction.
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