711 Defining the Role of In-house Lawyers in Governance. Includes sample board evaluations, corporate governance guidelines, annual board meeting agendas, and more.

A model compliance management system, which includes a functional whistleblowing system, is recognized by the methodology of Czech Republic public prosecutor offices as an example of measures that can avert corporate criminal liability. This article is an overview of what an organization can gain by implementing a functional whistleblowing hotline.

Many businesses will enter Qatar for the first time in 2022, and companies with existing operations in Qatar will look to capitalize on an influx of foreign investment and tourism. This resource provides 10 things to consider when doing business in Qatar.

The Home Office (United Kingdom) has updated its sponsor guidance to incorporate recent changes to immigration rules as well as some other changes to the guidance. In this article, learn about these employment changes to ensure compliance.

On April 3, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had reached a $6.5 million settlement with registered investment adviser (RIA) Senvest Management, LLC on charges related to the firm’s “widespread and longstanding failures to maintain and preserve certain electronic communications.”

This article analyze potential lessons learned from this latest off-channel communications SEC enforcement action.

611 - Supporting the CFO & Finance Function at Your Organization

This article discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission's final Rule 13q-1

Increasingly EU law (in particular EU consumer law) is being driven by a school of thought known as 'behavioural economics', which takes into account the behaviours of individuals when they are exercising choice. Regulators recognise that behavioural economics could have a profound impact on many of the most serious challenges facing policy makers today and increasingly see an opportunity for behavioural economics to support more specific issues like complexity, consumer inertia, marketing and the impact of communications to consumers. This session provides an overview of how behavioural economics is quickly becoming a "game changer" for the shape of regulation for time to come.

A survey of a company's use of the Altria Code of Conduct.

This article provides an overview and some insights into the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s key activities and priorities for 2021, which were announced on 23 February 2021 the ACCC’s Chair, Rod Sims.

Neville Eisenberg and Bruce Braude reflect on the ACC round table that they hosted in Hong Kong and conclude that General Counsel and legal operations specialists in Asia are rapidly driving the legal operations agenda.

The Minister of Employment and Labour (South Africa) published the new Code of Good Practice on the Prevention and Elimination of Harassment in the Workplace (the Code) in terms of the Employment Equity Act (EEA). In this resource, learn eight key takeaways from the Code for employers and employees on the elimination and prevention of harassment as a form of unfair discrimination in the workplace.

ESG issues are playing an ever-increasing role in businesses and have an impact right across the employment, retirement benefits, tax, executive compensation and share incentives space. This trend of growing focus is expected to continue into 2023 and beyond. As such, when designing and reviewing compensation and benefit packages, it is increasingly important for companies to do so with its ESG strategy in mind.

This outline describes the advantages and disadvantages of using ADR and its applicability to
trademark and unfair competition disputes. The characteristics of the most common methods
of ADR are listed, and settlement techniques are suggested. For court mandated ADR
procedures, the Local Rules in the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio are used as a model, where applicable.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in Singapore.

This whitepaper is intended to identify those eight litigation pitfalls and to give the non-litigious company some strategies for avoiding them.

As activist investors continue to have a significant impact in the market, two key questions are presented for consideration. The first is the question of the impact of activist investors on corporate performance and the overall economy. The second is a more general question on corporate governance and the proper role of the shareholder franchise in modern corporate management in the United States.

This article focuses on the role that energy storage and in particular battery storage, can play towards the goal of creating a more efficient electricity system and the key challenges that must be addressed.

This memo describes the ATP decision, the opportunity that some perceive that it presents, some concerns the decision raises, and the proposed legislation’s efforts to establish balanced corporate policy in light of these issues.

In April 2007, the IRS issued the final regulatory guidance on Section 409A. However, the 397 page document only brought up more questions than it answered. This article provides a guide to tax code Section 409A and highlights the new deferred compensation rules for in-house counsel.

This is a sample agreement for telemedicine services.

In this article, explore Mark Roellig's, chief technology and administrative officer of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, words of wisdom he's experienced over his long and evolving career.

This is a sample real estate purchase agreement.

This panel discussion will focus on what falls within the scope of a conflict of interest, both legally and ethically; how conflicts should be managed generally; and the special challenges of handling them in a global environment where there may be differing views as to what constitutes a conflict of interest. The panel will also address conflicts in the context of government work including the rules and regulations applicable to government contractors and former government officials moving into private industry.

Cyber extortion has increased in recent years, as the technologies and methods used by cybercriminals have become more and more complex. This article discusses what to factor in from a compliance and criminal law viewpoint when considering making a ransom payment in a cyber extortion situation.