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China is operating increasingly on a cashless basis, with the Chinese government posed to launch a digital currency called Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP or “digital yuan”). This article provides a holistic overview and answers several key questions pertaining to the DCEP.

This Top Ten provides 10 steps you can take to operationalise the GDPR in your organisation.

This brief resource outlines the top ten steps to operationalise the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of matters relating to practical issues concerning oil and gas and power including, the domestic oil and gas and electricity sectors, rights to oil and gas, electricity generation and renewable energy, oil and gas health and safety and the environment, and electricity transmission, distribution and supply in the United Arab Emirates.

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

In this tumultuous landscape, it's important that in-house counsel build strategies to protect the companies. This article answers ten questions regarding events and event planning during Covid-19. This article was originally published in June 2020.

This primer addresses the regeneration of African inner cities.

Insurance claims made in the wake of a disaster must be done quickly, but carefully, to maximize a company's recovery. Learn the best ways to document damage and claim the proper type of loss for maximum insurance coverage, and gain tips on working with an insurance broker and risk manager.

A license agreement that reflects US antitrust law should be simple and straightforward. Like a well-tailored suit paired with classic pumps, it needs no frills or adornments. This article provides an overview of the primary US antitrust statutes applicable to licensing, and recommends drafting approaches to commonplace competition considerations for license agreements.

Womble Bond Dickinson hosted a panel discussion on the current challenges involving data retention and e-discovery. In particular, the session looked at employee use of personal devices for business purposes, as well as a growing trend by digital messaging platforms to automatically delete messages shortly after they are delivered. This article is taken from that panel discussion.

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) is a central repository to track and manage all contracts and related documents. This checklist will help prioritize CLM features and functionality when choosing a platform.

No foreign judgement, decision or arbitral award can take effect in Vietnam until approved by the Vietnamese Court, provided the foreign judgement or arbitral award is in accordance with a treaty between Vietnam and the country where the judgement or award originated, is based on a reciprocal agreement, and is compliant with Vietnamese law. This article is an overview of the Vietnamese Court's recognition and enforcement of foreign court judgements and arbitral awards.

In this article, learn five best practices that shareholders, customers, and ESG rating agencies focus on when assessing a company’s ESG fitness as it relates to data privacy and security, and the steps companies can take now to improve their compliance posture in this important area.

This material discusses why you need to market your law department, how to market your law department, positioning
Internal communication, and how to create and demonstrate added value.

This guide sets out the salient rules and regulations for agreeing and enforcing employment non-competition clauses in each jurisdiction.

It has become increasingly easy for both small and large organizations to open up international business channels and source business operations worldwide. One area of increasing influence is the Middle East, particularly in the Gulf region. While those opportunities can prove to be beneficial to companies seeking to broaden global markets, they can also open the doors to predatory or other unscrupulous business practices orchestrated by scammers, creating legal headaches and wreaking havoc for those companies down the road.

Recently, I caught up with a classmate from my alma mater, the National Law School, who was visiting London. The question we considered was: Would we have been better off going to Hogwarts rather than to law school?

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

Unlike current global trends, US patent applicants are facing an increasing requirement to disclose all prior known art to the US Patent and Trademark Office. With this in mind, in-house counsel must strengthen due diligence practices. Here’s what to expect.

Top ten tips on how to thoroughly understand and be able to define in-house counsel's role and communicate a shared vision to demonstrate collaboration and unity between legal and business.

Representing a company outside the familiarity of the States can be a three-fold lesson in corporate etiquette, culture and law. In the Arab Middle East, these findings hold especially true. Follow this author’s firsthand experience and take away some tips on negotiating transactions abroad.

ESG considerations can play a key role in the restructurings of distressed businesses. This article examines what should be the ESG playbook for companies or insolvency practitioners implementing a restructuring.

The question and answer format of this article makes it an accessible, quick read for those looking to do business in Manitoba.

Imagine receiving a request from your sales department to approve a possible client's non-disclosure agreement - an agreement that you must approve and sign in order for the client to meet with the department. While the NDA is quite similar to your own, it is missing specific terms and conditions and could therefore present some serious risks for your company. This article explores what in-house counsel can do to mitigate these risks.