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About 85 percent of all corporate espionage incidents involve current or past employees. Use this article to implement your battle plan.

Learn about key developments in Canadian IP law in 2021.

The information revolution is responsible for quantum leaps in productivity and economic prosperity, but a downside has been the rise in a whole new class of crimes. With 8 primary elements, the comprehensive privacy protection and information security program described in this article is centered on people, processes, and technical management that is standards-based whenever possible.

This article discusses the increase in the use of put and call options in M&A transactions, as a mechanism to address challenges to valuation.

When selling finished products in the European Union, you are likely to encounter environmental product stewardship laws. These new regulations place an increasing liability on businesses to understand various EU standards that directly influence the supply chain. With an understanding of the practical ways in which this legislation operates, in-house counsel can better adapt to the future of product distribution under looming EU environmental regulations.

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 Germany.

The environmental due diligence required for purchasing a commercial property can be daunting. Which of these assessments best fit your business goals?

This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2010 piece, features law department leading practices for generating and demonstrating value through a number of value levers, as well as best practices for improving the bottom line and enhancing collation across business units. In wake of the economic downturn in the last decade and the increased pressure to “do more with less,” six participating corporations share their best value-sustaining practices in law department staffing, targeted practice areas, outside counsel management, strategic planning and the use of metrics to measure and track best practices.

A report on employment and labor law trends and tactics to consider in 2023.

This article discusses California's new compliance regime for entities that qualify as "charitable fundraising platforms."

It offers a high-level overview of who qualifies as a charitable fundraising platform, what obligations platforms must meet, and when various compliance obligations take effect.

This publication provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to laws and regulations relating to digital businesses around the world.

The author discusses the benefits and drawbacks of using the iPad 2 as a business tool.

Learn about loan fee fraud and how consumers can check for it in the United Kingdom.

Type any store name into Google and a list of similar stores shows up in the results - with the search term sometimes not even listed at the top. If a competitor purchases your company's trademark through keyword bidding and uses it as a metatag, potential infringement issues emerge. This article explores the legal issues of such use, and offers suggestions as to how you can best protect your company.

This course explains how to determine whether the Conflict Minerals Rule applies to a company's products and outlines the steps that the company must take to comply if the Rule applies. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

A guide to help FPIs and their investment bankers understand the regulatory regime applicable to capital-raising activities in the United States.

If you're a bank and considering implementing a new Customer Identification Program or an organization looking to shore-up your current vendor due diligence process, remember to keep these ten things in mind.

This is a sample information technology policy.

Following the collapse of Enron and other high-profile employee-owned companies, you need to revisit the issues surrounding employee buyouts before your company implements such a plan. This article will outline new regulatory proposals and help you avoid potential pitfalls.

It is an exciting and challenging time for in-house counsel. These days, the pipeline to general counsel is full of high-potential women and minorities. Read this article for insights and tips on how to achieve your fullest potential by shedding light on what it takes to advance in today's competitive corporate law department and how to use this knowledge to define your unique career path.

A well-crafted, company-facilitated secondary offering of private company shares (a private secondary offering) enables pre-IPO companies to satisfy the liquidity needs of early investors and employees without becoming exposed to the burdens and risks associated with going public.

Commercial companies sell billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services to the federal government every year. And for many companies, government sales represent only a small portion of annual revenue.
Government contracts contain risks and liabilities not present in commercial contracts. For example, a contractor giving false or misleading information to the government risks criminal liability, and could be suspended or debarred from public contracting — and breaching a government contract may have the same consequences.
A company with even one government contract should have a compliance plan to manage federal sales risk. That plan should address all the clauses referenced in the contract. Not all clauses present the same risk. This article highlights a few high-risk clauses to consider when developing a government contract compliance plan.

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

Add value to your own efforts to improve the contracting process in your company by conducting realistic and practical training programs. Try these handy tips.

Answers to these FAQs have been prepared by the Data Protection Unit of the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security with a view to assisting EU/EEA entities, and more particularly SMEs, in understanding the EU legal framework applicable to transfers of personal data processed in the EU (and the EEA) to “third countries” (i.e. countries that are not members of the EU or the EEA).

The practical consequences of a new regulation, adopted by the European Union on December 14, 2022, on M&A transactions of a certain size will be considerable as of 2023 and may, above certain thresholds, concern all companies, European or non-European, benefiting from financial contributions from any country outside the European Union when the subject of the M&A transaction includes a business located in the European Union.

These are the top ten "new frontier" questions and misconceptions about Title III of the US American with Disabilities Act.

This Money Laundering training course will (1) help you to detect money laundering, (2) examine the laws that make money laundering a crime, and (3) inform you of reporting requirements and prevention measures designed to thwart this crime. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)