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This guide presents jurisdictional overviews on public procurement contracts in jurisdictions around the globe.

This primer provides an introduction to key concepts of English insolvency law.

In this session, we will cover important recent U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) developments, rulemaking and enforcement trends. We will update our Dodd-Frank scorecards and review the most significant recently adopted and proposed rules. The session will also cover important lessons from the 2013 proxy season, with a particular focus on stockholder activism, and updates in the auditing and accounting arena — calling out hot spots in SEC accounting reviews. This will be a fast-moving session that assumes participants have a working knowledge of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.

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.

A perennial challenge that you face as the general counsel in leading your law department is that of how to secure the absolute best performance from your team. Many star performers may have limited opportunities for further promotion and so what do you do to reward and retain them? General counsel will come together to share and learn from each other regarding how to retain and reward the best and brightest on their teams.

In his final column as ACC board chair, Simon Fish reflects on how the association has grown and changed during his tenure.

Much like in Shakespearean plays, a government-driven investigation into company compliance can end as either a comedy or as a tragedy. To ensure the former, in-house counsel should work collaboratively with outside counsel to plan, establish, and execute an effective response plan. In doing so, the company can guarantee a positive relationship with federal regulators and avoid meeting a tragic Shakespearean demise.

Due to the nature of the state-by-state regulation and ongoing developments in state and federal regulations following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, there is much uncertainty regarding many of these issues. This article provides a brief summary of: (1) some potential options to structure these employee benefits, including certain key issues and risks, and (2) the employment law issues that may arise.

Learn about the risks of not using care with the language in contractual bonuses.

Teeming with natural resources, sunshine, fertile lands and an educated workforce, Guatemala mirrors its Central American neighbors in both resources and the dichotomy of its socioeconomic structure. However, rampant crime and corruption, coupled with a byzantine legal landscape, can sometimes outweigh the advantages of this Central American nation of 15.7 million, the most populated in the region.

Subject to limited exemptions, the general rule set out in the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (the “Act”) and the Regulations thereunder (the “Regulations”) is that a foreign national (defined as a person who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada) may not work in Canada without first obtaining a work permit. Further, foreign nationals from certain countries are unable to travel to Canada without first obtaining a temporary resident visa (a “TRV”).

Overview of HP's in-house counsel training program.

This policy's goal is to provide positive user experiences to a company's visitors and followers via social media platforms, and strive to always do so in a manner which is respectful and responsible.

In-house counsel should take a leading role in building upon regulatory actions to adopt cyber risk mitigation measures. This is a list of things that can and should be done before an attack occurs to position your company to effectively respond to a cyber incident.

Understand the force majeure implications of the Ukraine conflict (and related sanctions) for contracts.

Learn about risks with trading in green electricity based on the practices in China.

This report presents results on a subset of respondents from the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) 2013 Survey, published in January 2013. A total of 1,104 individuals from 36 countries participated in this survey to provide a global outlook of CLOs worldwide. This report provides results and analysis of respondents from Canada (n=50) as well as demographic information, such as staffing, budget changes, revenue and more, while also exploring intangibles such as CCLOs’ top legal and business concerns for the past 12 months and their anticipations for the future.

This is a list of additional course materials dealing with the energy industry.

This is a sample purchase and sale agreement, for the sale of land and other rights and assets, by a seller company to a buyer Limited Liability Company (LLC).

It is only when we don’t have anything to prove that we stop pretending to be something we are not.

Discusses whether internet tools, meant to make information more accessible, have affected and altered our cognitive abilities.

Sometimes the best way to enhance ones management abilities is to study mistakes that are most frequently made and why. This article contains some common pitfalls and how they can be avoided.

This Quick Overview seeks to clarify industrial property (a type of intellectual property) protection in Brazil , specifically the case of item I of Article 2 of Federal Statute 9279/96, related to the grant of patents of invention and utility models.

This article uses the experience of one law department to show how integration with the business teams--an active philosophy of being closer to the business--can replace the dreaded corporate staff moniker with status as an integral part of the operating business.

This document seeks to bring together the previous work done by the Working Party of EU Data Protection Commissioners established under Article 29 of the Data Protection Directive1 into a more comprehensive set of views covering all the central questions raised by flows of personal data to third countries in the context of the application of EU data protection directive (95/46/EC). It is organised according to the system provided for international transfers of personal data set out in Articles 25 and 26 of the directive. (The text of these articles is attached as Annex 2).