This Top Ten examines ten hot-button privacy and data security issues and presents questions to help you gauge whether your organization is at risk, in the U.S. or abroad.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in Belgium.
In the wake of changes to Chinese law, mergers and acquisitions have soared, increasing 300 percent from 2003 to 2004. M&A transactions in China are fraught with risks and complexities to be carefully evaluated and anticipated. This article explores the issues and strategies you need to help your company evaluate and structure M&A deals in China.
Baker & McKenzie's contribution to the debate on the reform of the Verticals Block Exemption and Guidelines.
This panel will walk through various real-world emergency scenarios and hypotheticals with help from audience members. Organized around three main phases – preparation, immediate response and aftermath – the program will teach you how to anticipate, recognize and respond in accelerated and stressful circumstances to the multifaceted environmental, health and safety legal risks of various emergency situations – particularly when time may not permit a call to outside counsel or other company lawyers.
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in China.
Learn about new European Union guidelines on horizontal cooperation agreements between competing businesses, issued in June 2023.
An overview of mergers and acquisitions in Europe in 2021.
While you can put off your work until later, do your future self a favor and follow these tips to finish it sooner.
The main purposes of the energy reform are, (i) to increase the investment and employment opportunities in the Energy industry; (ii) to strengthen PEMEX and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE); and (iii) to strengthen the authority of the Mexican State as the owner of the Mexican petroleum and gas, and as the regulatory entity of the petroleum industry in Mexico.
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 article on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) reviews the principal U.S. tax considerations influencing M&A transaction structuring. Following the discussion are “Deal Points” on important considerations in the purchase or sale of a business: what to do, and what at all costs not to do.
The common law and civil law systems are two fundamentally different approaches to the legal process. In civil law, the main principles and rules are contained in codes, with case law being only a secondary source. In the common law system, the law has been predominantly created by judicial decisions, with precedents being a binding force. Under the pressure of globalisation, common law and civil law have displayed an interesting convergence in a number of legal issues. In this session we will review the key differences and similarities of both legal systems.
This paper will provide an overview of the U.S. federal and state considerations applicable to any business initiative that relies on Big Data, and provide some practical advice for those seeking to monetize Big Data in health care.
While there are plenty of providers ready, willing, and able to solve your problems, not every system is a good fit for each department. This article includes the top ten points you should understand before selecting and implementing a new CLM.
As many can attest, it’s not easy to discuss business operations in Europe without first acknowledging EU data privacy laws. The latest regulation efforts will broaden the scope of ePrivacy legislation to increase protections for newer technologies. Here’s what to expect.
Learn about the implications of climate risk for the financial sector, financial risk, litigation, and greenwashing.
Learn about the 2022 Arbitration and Mediation Bill and what it means for third party funding in arbitration claims in Nigeria.
Privacy laws are proliferating. This session will discuss how to implement a global privacy compliance program to address the EU Directives, as well as current updates and implementation of key country privacy laws, such the Personal Information Privacy Act in South Korea and similar laws in Malaysia and other Asian countries. This session will also address equally important US state law privacy developments.
These are Title 15, Commerce and Trade statutes and regulations.
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