Vol. 5, No. 18, Winter 2012

Few subjects receive as much attention in legal, compliance and accounting circles these days as the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the “FCPA”), the United Kingdom Bribery Act (the...Read more

To paraphrase an old adage – “God could not be everywhere all the time, that’s why he invented regulators”! However, as most legislators and regulation draftsmen would have it, their...Read more

There are long-established prejudices around Russia with its high level of corruption, and unfair competition in the business environment, which have been addressed in recent years by the introduction of...Read more

Compliance and ethics has become a substantial topic in the corporate world. Anti-bribery and corruption is one of the fundamental factors of this theme. Global organizations under commitments of being...Read more

The aim of this article is to provide guidance to in-house counsel on the assessment and management of key risks associated with partnership opportunities. As such, in-house counsel should be...Read more

The enduring economic strife of the past few years has caused an unprecedented shift in the global legal industry and the technology supporting the industry. Legal service delivery models have...Read more

In recent years, the volume of private damages actions has increased substantially in the national courts of EU Member States. In England and Wales, for example, the number of private...Read more

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) into law. Title VII of Dodd-Frank establishes a new regulatory framework for over-the-counter...Read more

It is commonly accepted to state that ethics refers to shared values. It is in essence a values – based approach. . It appeals to one’s sense of ethics,...Read more

5S is a Japanese concept which seeks to keep the workplace and even the home in an orderly and systematic manner so that at any point everything could be located...Read more

How should corporate governance apply to subsidiaries of large international organisations? How do directors at the subsidiary level discharge their duties? How often should they meet and what level...Read more

A fundamental role of in-house legal counsel is to assist the operations teams in identifying, assessing and tailoring their procedures to ensure compliance with applicable requirements and to address the...Read more

The use of electronic information within companies is now the norm. We all use word processing tools to create documents and we all use email to correspond and exchange documents...Read more

The English law on set-off bears particular importance to modern commercial and financial transactions. Unlike the lender-borrower structure in conventional loans, the implications of set-off are more complicated in the...Read more

Last year will be remembered by the number of key pieces of legislation that were introduced. Certainly this legislation will bring about changes in the way of doing business in...Read more

The wealth of electronic information generated today makes pre-litigation planning for corporate lawyers and their legal advisors more important than ever before. The huge volume of data to identify, collect,...Read more

The General Counsel of any organization plays a vital role in the success—or failure—of the organization, and his or her responsibilities legitimately span the full spectrum of that organization’s activities...Read more

The private banking industry in Asia is growing very quickly with numerous banks making significant investments (both organic and inorganic) in the region. This development is in line with the...Read more