Before your company launches its international charity endeavor, ask yourself: Are we legally allowed to operate in this country? By learning the 10 key legal considerations for conducting charity work across borders, in-house counsel can mitigate risk and ensure that the company executives won’t be saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.”
Proper management of personal information is key to customer confidence, trust and business reputation. This Top Ten presents key tips regarding data privacy in Australia.
This Top Ten presents the Top Ten ways to leverage the environmental attributes of your consumer products without incurring liability with the US Federal Trade Commission ("FTC").
This QuickCounsel will discuss the risks associated with not having a tax hedging policy in place, and will outline steps towards creating an effective tax hedging policy.
The results of insider trading enforcement and sentencing continue to follow trends of years past. Review this QuickCounsel to learn more.
With little public sympathy left for big business, compliance management is nothing to take lightly. If you disagree, prepare for the inevitable: legal sanctions, financial losses and a tarnished reputation. based on the Swiss corporate environment, learn the five fundamentals of effective compliance management and ensure your company remains in the public spotlight for all the right reasons.
As the East continues to seduce business, more in-house counsel will be asked to manage legal services in China. Your new legal team will adhere to and be motivated by different cultural norms, which you as their leader should know. Learn basic cultural concepts relevant to all facets of life — including business — in China.
There is a series of steps in-house counsel must take after their company is served with a new lawsuit. These steps ensure compliance with requirements placed on a civil litigant, and they put the company in the best position to defend against the claims. Don’t miss the simple tasks and responsibilities — use this checklist as a guide.
Written Submission of the American Corporate Counsel Association to the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility
(The"Cheek Commission?), November 11, 2002.
This material covers the various roles in-house counsel may be called upon to play during a corporate crisis.
This multi-PAK provides a high level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees, and loan agreements. It covers creation and registration requirements for security interests; problem assets over which security is difficult to grant; risk areas for lenders; structuring the priority of debt; debt trading and transfer mechanisms; agent and trust concepts; enforcement of security interests and borrower insolvency; cross-border issues on loans; taxes; and proposals for reform.
A review of Brazil's new anti-corruption law. Discusses the potential corruption liabilities of companies doing business, directly or indirectly, in Brazil.
This article is intended to provide a general guide to the matter of green bonds.
In this article, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is explained in the context of small businesses and non-profits. Resources are available to these sectors impacted by the current crisis.
This ACC Foundation report explores the current landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within legal departments.
This article, titled Doing Business in Australia, is a complete guide for foreign investors who are looking to invest in Australia. The guide’s aim is to provide an introduction to Australian laws for overseas legal practitioners.
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 counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
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.
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 counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in its series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people. This chapter focuses on arbitration in Angola.
This guide reviews anti-corruption legislation, conventions, and practices in Italy.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a<br />volume in our series of annual reports,<br />which provide international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and<br />business people.
This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).
Explains the legal and regulatory developments that compel your company's (and the legal department's) active involvement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues, and offers suggestions on how to develop a business case for CSR leadership.
As more and more companies expand their multinational presence, issues concerning how to effectively manage the workforce also expand. This article offers step-by-step instructions on how to proactively address this problem, as well as how multi-jurisdictional employers should audit employment practices, and who should be doing the auditing.
Provides how to develop and implement a international code of conduct. Includes steps to communicate and implement a global strategy. Also includes a comparison of international employment laws.
This checklist is for use by licensees when reviewing a licensor's terms for the licence of commercially available packaged software. The checklist covers key issues that frequently arise in these types of licensing arrangements. However, it is not intended to be an exhaustive list and licensees should be careful to review all licence terms carefully. Agreements in respect of software that is to be developed or heavily configured specifically for the licensee are outside the scope of this checklist. In those circumstances, the contract is likely to (and should) contain additional detailed provisions relating to the ownership of intellectual property rights in the new software, acceptance, conformity with specification, delivery of bespoke elements and warranties. The checklist is written from a European perspective. For non-European software licences, users should ensure that they take into account relevant local law issues.
This session focuses on how to structure the transaction, what to watch out for when conducting IP due diligence and which contractual protections are advisable to ensure that such risks are mitigated.
In this sample, find practical tips to consider when drafting and negotiating contracts.
Cloud computing allows us to easily store data without physical storage devices, helping to reduce the carbon footprint. But environmental issues from cloud data centers makes this a mixed blessing.
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