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This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in the United Arab Emirates.

Financial reporting and internal control practices are facing increased scrutiny these days, and organizations are taking stock of their existing financial practices, and enhancing and formalizing processes and policies. In-house lawyers have an important role in serving as key legal advisers to their organizations' finance functions. Featured in this Profile, are programs and practices for six organizations, including IKON Office Solutions, Inc., NTMA, TIAA-CREF, TOTAL S.A., and Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

This is a sample software license agreement.

This resource (Quick Overview) summarizes some distinctions in laws that impact records management in different regions throughout the world.

There is one ACC resource that may not immediately come to mind when you think about career development, and that’s the ACC Annual Meeting. Just how can a meeting help your career, you wonder? Let me count the ways...

This is a sample company blogging and comment policy.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption in various jurisdictions. It delves into matters, such as: insider dealing and market abuse, money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing in the United Kingdom.

This Leading Practices Profile (LPP) presents themes, trends and leading practices of general counsel at the helm of six legal departments located in the Asia-Pacific region. The resource explores how the roles of general counsel and in-house counsel in that region have evolved from legal advisors to trusted business partners. It also provides leading practices for the success of legal teams of global organizations located in the Asia-Pacific region.

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

This is a sample working table for principles in Processor Binding Corporate Rules.

Ten helpful lessons you can learn from the recent data breach incident Target fell victim to.

Demonstrate your individual commitment to diversity and inclusion by completing at least five action items on this checklist during the year. To the extent possible, we ask them to select at least one action item in each of the three categories.

This sample deals with practices and guidelines to follow with regard to political activity and campaign intervention.

Every year ACC conducts a CLO survey in conjunction with its Annual Meeting. The 2006 Chief Legal Officer Survey showed some interesting trends and underscored what we already know—that our jobs are
becoming more complicated. In addition to CLO resources, ACC also has gathered
information and advice for new to in-house lawyers, legal specialists, and law department managers. ACC is committed to focusing on the evolving needs of lawyers at all stages of their career.

This Checklist outlines a few key items that independent contractors can provide the company to show the that relationship is classified correctly and avoid misclassification of workers, which may result in significant liability to the employer.

In this increasingly connected world, an international cyberattack is no longer a possibility but an inevitability. The difference between success and catastrophe in defending against international cyberattacks comes down to not just preventing them, but responding quickly and appropriately when one does occur. In-house counsel must be prepared to work with internal clients to anticipate potential consequences of an international cyberattack, mitigate the risks of an attack, and implement an agreed strategy that effectively deals with the business and legal risks. This session will give in-house counsel the tools to have constructive conversations with their company's business leaders and technical teams to ensure that their program for dealing with international cyberattacks fits the needs of the company and the customers it serves and addresses the company's legal obligations relating to the attack.

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.

When it comes to proactively managing careers, in-house counsel, like everyone else, tend to avoid addressing change unless absolutely forced to. You may not be sure what to expect from your position or how your position differs from other in-house counsel positions. The criteria here will help you determine whether it is time to move on to a new in-house counsel position.

This article discusses protecting you and your business in Puerto Rico when sales taxes are owed.

This article discusses the EU Council and Parliament September 2023 announcement that they have provisionally agreed to new rules to specifically prohibit certain types of misleading green claims.

View checklists on building a law department, in the materials from this presentation by in-house counsel.

This is a list of supplemental resources for the session.

The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

Read Chairman White's final Chair's Message as he gets set to turn over the reigns to the new Chair at ACC's Annual Meeting.

This article explains what happens when employers fail to maintain worker’s compensation insurance.