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In effect on 1 July 2013, the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations 2005 (SF (CIS) Regulations) were amended by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Read more detail regarding this issue in this article.

Discusses six practical examples for lawyers to more directly understand their own clients' experiences.

This article uses the analogy of repairing a garage door malfunction to discuss how ethics and compliance professionals should approach their work. Like a garage door, within an organization, there are innumerable moving parts, unseen and complex interactions, and a virtually infinite number of failure modes — each of which may require custom-made remedies when they’re not working properly.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy is fast becoming a norm within corporations, although how those strategies are being implemented and managed may vary as numerous leaders with different roles within the C-suite may become involved.

Ideation: Moving From Concept to Project

This is a sample software license and services agreement.

A review of changes to Brazilian laws related to social security contributions. In some economic sectors, Brazilian law reduce social security contribution requirements to encourage growth.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview and practical analysis for public procurement issues and procedures in the European Union.

The purpose of this disclosure form is to permit evaluation of your invention, to determine whether the invention is patentable and to establish whether commercial development is feasible.

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Legal department alignment and organisation alignment: A win-win! Courtenay Zajicek, General Counsel and Company Secretary for Curves and Jenny Craig in Oceania.

This article examines the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aviation industry and general collapse in demand for passenger air services. It also considers the future of aviation in 2021 and beyond, taking into account the various challenges to consider moving forward.

This Sample provides the outline for a basic compliance program.

Chris Murphy Ives - vice president and general deputy general counsel, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America & Canada, HP - discusses how his acting background benefits his role as in-house counsel.

This is a sample consulting agreement between a company and an independent contractor.

Panelists Vince Cordo (Shell), Hans Albers (Juniper Networks), Helen Fletcher (BNP Paribas) and Thierry Perrouault (Orange) discussed the journey of establishing and advancing a legal operations function, and compared notes on the scope, structure, composition and roles of dedicated legal operations functions. Here you will find the Top Ten takeaways from their discussion.

This template provides all the relevant portions of an annual report to the audit committee. It was a part of ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program.

In this article the Commission proposed – and the House adopted – six Resolutions. Those Resolutions were the product of a three-year study of how globalization and technology are transforming the practice of law and how the regulation of lawyers should be updated in light of those developments.

This article refers to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (the “HKMA”) near final version of the draft module in the HKMA Supervisory Policy Manual on margin and risk mitigation standards for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives (the “SPM Margin Module”), together with the HKMA’s response to comments from the various industry bodies on the HKMA consultation response.

This document addresses the situation where personal data are initially transferred by a controller to a processor within the European Union (“EU”) and are subsequently transferred by the processor to a sub-processor located outside the EU.

As a legal operations professional, you know technology can make the team more efficient and collaborative, and save the company money, but how do you measure the amount?

Among the trends explored in the report are how advances in technology, an increasingly mobile workforce and the “Millennial effect” have combined to hasten changes in the legal industry.

A review of the Mexican Department of Labor and Social Welfare's publishing of rules outlining an employer’s obligation to develop and implement detailed employee training
programs that will foster productivity.

The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.

This resource details Prudential Financial's structured approach to project management, including a Project Management Office, focusing on project definition, scope, risk assessment, training, and review.

This article discusses the critical decisions that are pending before courts and legislators in 2023 that promise to shape the future of the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program), which provides discounts on outpatient drugs for certain health care providers, referred to as “covered entities.” The resolution of these issues will have an enormous financial impact on the health care industry, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, 340B hospitals, and federal grantees.

Significant amendments to the Canadian Trademarks Act are expected to come into force at the end of 2015 or in early 2016, according to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Detailed amendments appear in Bill C-31 entitled Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1.

When evaluating your law department's processes and technologies for managing IP, how do you determine your real world needs as well as the practical requirements to begin addressing those needs? Highlights of this session will be discussions of key law department systems and vendors to address your needs, making the case for capital investment or how to make use of what you already have, and how to ensure successful change management.

This is sample contract review legal escalation criteria.