This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to joint ventures, including practice notes and standard documents for cross-border deals with detailed drafting notes highlighting the main legal, commercial and negotiating issues in Hong Kong.
Interviews with legal leaders of Fortune 50-ranked companies who were asked to share insights on what they value most in working with firms, value-based fee structure models, other types of practices they're implementing that focus on value, legal spend and savings from implementing value practices and more.
Download the PDF, or view the interactive digital edition at www.acc.com/GCValueInsights.
The Movers & Shakers in the In-house community
The last few years have seen strong competition and antitrust enforcement in many African countries, in particular regarding merger control. International companies that have operations in in Africa should make sure any activities by their entities in Africa comply with competition law.
This article provides recommendations on how to minimize regulatory risks associated with patient assistance programs in the United States.
In this guide, explore what corporate sustainability means, and practical guidance on how General Counsel and support and lead corporate sustainability efforts.
Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and enactment of the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations flowing from the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement introduced a new framework in Canada for the issuance of Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs).
This chart compare key aspects of the two regimes, Canada's and the EU's.
This article provides a brief overview of the case Airport Authority v Persons Unlawfully and Willfully Obstructing or Interfering with the Proper Use of the Hong Kong International Airport [2020] HKCFI 2743. This case is noteworthy because the Judge employed new technologies in order to effect substitute service during the proceedings, making room for the use of other technologies in civil litigation in the future.
This is a list of rules on sharing personal health information.
Tax incentives granted at the federal level bolster the Brazilian economy. Those incentives apply to the oil and gas industry, in particular. Learn more about the Special Customs Regime of Export and Import of Goods destined to Exploration and Production of Oil and Natural Gas (“REPETRO”), which is one of the main incentives applicable to this industry.
These are top 10 things life sciences companies need to know about the FCPA.
This article focuses on core types of intellectual property frequently used on a global basis.
In managing a global workforce, companies need to know varying regional regulations, balance the law with corporate policies, and understand cultural differences and how law and policy can be practically applied. Let this article be your guide to meeting the employment and labor challenges of a multinational company.
Those who have ascended to the top of the in-house profession are not "lucky," rather they have made their own luck through self-awareness, development plans, branding, and clear objective-setting. Set yourself up to succeed by investing in yourself and taking smart risks.
This is a sample End User License and Services Agreement used in connection with equipment.
In this article, various Hong Kong government initiatives and economic relief packages are explained. This resource was produced April 23, 2020.
This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2011 Crisis Management and the Role of In-House Lawyers: Company Leading Practices, features the leading business continuity and crisis management plans of four entities that share plan aspects, including core components, operational strategies, and lessons learned. The Profile also addresses the law departments’ role in prevention planning, training, risk assessment, crisis management, and continuity planning.
An update from the 2015 Guide for General Counsel, this resource seeks to support the General Counsel (GC) community by examining five areas of corporate sustainability. This guide provides practical tips and advice for implementing and executing your sustainability plans.
An examination of how Pennsylvania's revamped corporation laws make for a more enlightened approach to corporate governance.
Over the past decade, with the pressure to cut costs wherever possible, many legal departments continue to rely on a smaller core group of external firms to help achieve higher levels of business performance. Often termed 'convergence,' these and related strategies allow greater accountability for results and greater efficiency from dealing with fewer outside firms, particularly as each panel firm gets to know your organization better. As this trend continues, however, of the hidden problems of convergence is gradually beginning to emerge. Some companies beginning to find that even their preferred law firms' 'other' offices may fail to measure up the high standards of the main office with whom you had been used to dealing with and on which, in truth, your original selection process might mostly have concentrated.
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.
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