A public company being created in a spin-off or carve-out transaction faces many of the issues that any newly public company must address, as well as some unique corporate governance challenges. Find out how the officers supporting the board
of directors can be proactive in shaping the company’s governance practices, to improve performance and ensure that its stakeholders will view the new company favorably.
A derivative suit has been filed against the company, its directors, and some officers. There are no advice-of-counsel issues that would be implicated in this instance by your representation of both the company and the individual defendants, but can one law firm represent everybody? What are the risks? Can you ever have too many lawyers?
ABA Comment letter written by Kim J. Askew, Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation concerning the Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 502(b).
This article shows arbitration practitioners involved in a trust arbitration.
Being an in-house attorney can be one of the most demanding professions. Therefore, learning time management skills can be absolutely crucial. Spare fifteen minutes for this article and learn how you can find at least fifteen minutes of extra time in your work day.
Supply Chain Transparency and Liability for Commercial Lawyers - presentation held in Melbourne 2 March 2017.
Brief overview of global codes of conduct.
To better understand the chief legal officer’s perspective, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) contacted 9,489 individuals holding the title of chief legal officer or general counsel, gathering responses from 1,289 CLOs in 46 countries. The ACC Chief Legal Officers Survey examines the practices, trends and changes in the role of the CLO by key segments such as industry, compensation, gender and region.
New England Legal Foundation, NELF, amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/10
Sample form required for foreign entities acquire newly issued stock in Korea.
The purpose of this research is to understand how organizations qualify and quantify the financial risk to their tangible and intangible assets in the event of a network privacy or security incident.
Once a business faces the prospects of gathering ESI from foreign offices and subsidiaries, it will likely start to grasp the complexity of cross-border eDiscovery. This article discusses the legal, logistical and cultural challenges related to Asian eDiscovery, with a particular emphasis on Japan. These observations will be helpful to in-house counsel for US companies with Japanese operations, parents, subsidiaries or affiliates, or Japanese companies involved with US litigation. The need to respect foreign law may be obvious. In addition, handling logistical and cultural challenges to eDiscovery will make the process more effective, efficient and affordable.
As legal situations are in a constant state of flux because of the topical nature of the issue mandatory national law and current case law should always be complied with when using the clauses.
This is a sample agreement between a vendor company and a client company for the design, development and manufacturing of a system (sample agreement governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey).
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Germany is the provides a number of real estate investments of companies and private individuals. This form provides some insight as to how to navigate real estate investments in Germany for in-house counsel.
As hiring outside contractors becomes a more popular alternative to onsite employment, worksite losses because of contractor incompetence have risen substantially. Does your company carry its contractor’s liability? Before disaster strikes, learn which contractual provisions and preventative measures serve to better protect your client’s interests.
Report addressing multi-jurisdictional practice issues such as reciprocal admission and pro hac vice rules.
This is a sample master nonexclusive agency fee agreement.
In the Netherlands, business owners have to request the advice of the Works Council (OR) well in advance of a merger of takeover decision. If the business owner fails to make the request for advice timely, the Enterprise Chamber may require him or her to withdraw the decision. Therefore, it is crucial to follow the advisory path correctly and consult the works council well in advance. But what does "well in advance" mean?
The September 2017 amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations introduced a new scheme for pharmaceutical patent linkage litigation in Canada. That scheme is now much closer to the United States' (US) Hatch-Waxman scheme, but with remaining key differences that are explained in this chart.
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