Deutsches Institut für Compliance (DICO) guidelines provide the reader with practical and actionable recommendations on Compliance issues.
This Quick Overview aims at highlighting the protection against such retroactivity, as granted by the European Court of Human Rights, especially regarding tax and criminal law matters.
Have you ever received a surprise invoice from a software supplier issuing an audit that you mistakenly agreed to? If you haven’t, you will. In an effort to combat this growing trend, in-house counsel should modernize their software management processes, and negotiate the terms of any audit clause to protect both the business and the budget.
Current studies show that most European companies have yet to implement effective antitrust programs. However, to encourage compliance, the German Institute for Compliance (DICO) and the German Association of Supply Chain Management, Procurement, and Logistics recently published an English version of the DICO Guideline — with the goal of providing guidance for European companies looking to prevent violations.
This policy brief will inform you on ESMA details for investors and general counsel alike.
Before your company launches its international charity endeavor, ask yourself: Are we legally allowed to operate in this country? By learning the 10 key legal considerations for conducting charity work across borders, in-house counsel can mitigate risk and ensure that the company executives won’t be saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.”
To better protect against infringement, in-house counsel should understand the digital do’s and don’ts of copyright regulation so that an inadvertent “copy and paste” doesn’t lead to millions in liability for the company.
Global business leaders provide unique strategies for how the in-house counsel of today can be better prepared to become the in-house counsel of tomorrow.
This brief resource outlines the top ten steps to operationalise the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Few pieces of data privacy legislation have been more hotly contested than the EU-US Privacy Shield. While the road ahead remains uncertain, in-house counsel should adopt protocol to ensure long-term solutions to data compliance.