The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
Join ACCGP and our generous sponsor, Troutman Pepper, for a discussion on how to identify and minimize antitrust risk in your organization. The panelists will address potential situations that could expose your company to increased antitrust risk, including litigation and enforcement, and offer practical tips to minimize that risk while still achieving your organization’s business goals. The discussion will also provide guidance on what to do when enforcement agencies are on your door step, including best practices for internal investigations, responding to subpoenas and the proactive use of compliance to prevent enforcement actions and mitigate outcomes.
Over-retention of data is a major data privacy risk for all companies. U.S. and international regulations specifically require that companies ensure their retention standards are up-to-date and enforced, and that all obsolete records containing regulated sensitive data are disposed of promptly. By implementing defensible data minimization strategies across your organization, you can significantly reduce your costs and risks. Data you don't have can't be breached, and doesn't have to be produced during litigation or for data access requests.
Join the ACC Northeast Chapter and ACC's exclusive Alliance Partner for Data Privacy Compliance, Exterro, for this important webinar. Beyond gaining insights into how to practice good data hygiene, you will learn:
How to best implement data minimization strategies that protect your company's data and your organization;
What key data retention considerations you should be considering; and
The vital role technology plays in automating and identifying the right data to delete.
Register below. Dial in to be provided once registered.
The Victorian Commercial Arbitration Scheme (VCAS) is a set of Rules that provide a process through which parties can resolve disputes quickly under a capped-fee scheme with experienced arbitrators. The VCAS deals with the resolution of disputes by means of private arbitration instead of litigation in Court. VCAS’s procedures are simple and convenient and will appeal to companies that are seeking a flexible and low-cost resolution of their civil and commercial disputes.
This webcast, presented in conjunction with the Victorian Bar and the Commercial Bar Association, will provide an introduction to the VCAS Rules, how the Scheme operates, what in-house counsel need to do to access it, as well as an overview of arbitration and how it works in practice. Presented by Victorian barristers Rob Heath QC and Kieran Hickie together with a member of Corporate Counsel.
Join Gilbert + Tobin for a live webinar, hosted in conjunction with ACC Australia, on current developments in contract law, including recent cases on:
• termination rights;
• good faith obligations;
• clauses dealing with consequential loss; and
• the enforcement of dispute resolution clauses.
Tim and Alastair will also consider how these developments affect the drafting and implementation of commercial agreements.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for Australian companies and businesses. Many have been forced to rely on temporary measures put in place by the Federal Government (both fiscal and regulatory) and negotiations or extensions with stakeholders (such as banks and landlords) in order to stay afloat. As a result, almost all Australian businesses are now exposed to significant risks arising from the financial distress or even the insolvency of their contractual counterparties. Despite this, there are a variety of proactive steps which can be taken, and protective measures available, to maximise the outcomes for your business in the event of counterparty insolvency.
Join Gilbert + Tobin’s award-winning Restructuring + Insolvency and Disputes + Investigations teams for a live webinar on managing counterparty insolvency risk. The webinar will explore:
our views on the current market and regulatory regime;
challenges with the current regulatory environment and the temporary protections;
the protective measures which can be put in place to mitigate the risks associated with counterparty distress or insolvency;
the consequences of counterparty insolvency to your business and ongoing trading arrangements;
statutory moratoriums that apply in certain external administrations (including the ipso facto provisions), retention of titles issues and PPSA requirements;
strategies for dealing with a company that has suffered an insolvency event; and
the potential impact of the government winding back the temporary measures and implementing the proposed new insolvency laws.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Building on our successful webinar in July, The New Playbook for International Business Growth, ACC Northeast, together with Osborne Clarke, is pleased to invite you to join us for an updated and timely webinar.
Highlighting Osborne Clarke depth from across Europe, this webinar will provide a broad and holistic view of the key international compliance issues that must be at the top of the priority list for US in-house counsel.
Key topics to be covered:
Setting up and operating a global compliance program;
Implementing continuous improvement measures;
Recent global data protection and privacy updates;
The Schrems II decision, and how US businesses are facilitating data transfers from Europe;
Shifting international regulatory landscape, the impact across various industries and how to adapt to changing priority;
Assessing opportunities and creating a growth roadmap for your organization for 2021 and beyond.
Register below today for this exclusive ACC Northeast webinar and hear from Osborne Clarke's experts as they share first-hand views of best practices for global compliance.
Is your company ready for the unannounced attendance of a corporate regulator or law enforcement authority exercising search & seizure powers?
We all know that Australian corporate regulators including the ACCC, ASIC, APRA, AUSTRAC and the ATO have wide-ranging powers to compel the production of documents etc by way of notice. However, they also have extensive search and seizure powers which may be invoked without, or with very limited, prior notice: AKA “The Dawn Raid”.
Federal, state and territory law enforcement authorities and the ACC may exercise similar powers, either at the request of a regulator or where independently authorised, for example by way of search warrant.
This practical session is targeted to in-house counsel and will address the following topics:
Preparation: Does your company have a practised response plan and protocol in place? Does everyone from the Receptionist to the CEO know what to do? Who do you notify? Can you call the company’s lawyers? What can you report about or to a client if the documents seized relate to them?
What to do when investigators arrive: Understanding the source of power used and the scope of any warrant; asking for identification materials from the investigators. Can any execution can be delayed pending the arrival of external legal advisors? Where do you put the investigators? Do you have to provide infrastructure for them? What do you tell staff? What if the media calls? Are the telephones also being intercepted?
What to do when the searches are being conducted: Monitoring the inspectors, but not interfering. Can notes or photographs be taken of what the inspectors are doing? What do you tell staff to do if they are asked questions? What is the status of any privileged documents? What if there is a dispute about whether certain documents fall within the scope of a notice or warrant?
What to do after the investigators have left: identifying the next legal steps; communications to staff, the media and/or the ASX; business continuity and document management.
Registrations for this event are being managed by NSW Bar directly.
As Australian businesses come to terms with normalising pandemic-induced changes to operations, proactive planning around workforce management and operations will be integral.
This webinar will focus on the short and longer term workplace and workforce considerations businesses must successfully navigate in order to balance legal risk, whilst also allowing for flexibility to adapt to business disruptions and downturns.
Topics to be discussed will include:
Avoiding claims when restructuring;
Other options available to manage the transition back to ‘normal’ JobKeeper Directions, Stand downs, facilitative Award clauses and agreed variations;
WHS considerations;
Enterprise bargaining; and
New COVID-19 induced changes to Fair Work legislation.
If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event.
If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Registrations for this event are being managed by Piper Alderman directly.
It is important to understand how to spot these issues as they arise. In this session, Baker McKenzie Partners Anne-Marie Allgrove, Lynsey Edgar and Helen Joyce will provide an overview of the issues as well as practical tips on how to deal with them in practice.
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
This event occurs during AEDT (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne).
Join as Madgwicks Lawyers Workplace Relations & Safety Partner Luisa Gonzaga delves into what employers and their officers can learn from the first ever industrial manslaughter prosecution against Brisbane Auto Recycling Pty Ltd in June this year.
In this interactive and informative webinar, Luisa will:
• Provide a brief summary of the duties under the W/OHS laws
• Provide an update on manslaughter laws, how they will operate and who will (and not) be caught
• Delve into the Brisbane Auto Recycling Pty Ltd case and look into what went wrong and the lessons we can learn from this case
• Provide some practical tips
Please note: If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
Registrations for this event are being managed by Madgwicks directly.