Vol. 5, No. 19, Spring 2012

The Kingdom of Cambodia has come onto the radar of international investors as economic development has continued in the Kingdom providing opportunities for investment across a wide range of sectors....Read more

Managing an International Legal team spread out across various regions, countries and time zones comes with a unique set of challenges. How can a manager inspire the team to a...Read more

As witness familiarisation becomes commonplace among the litigation departments of leading City law firms there is a strong argument that it should automatically be part of the consideration of all...Read more

As recently as a decade ago, there was a clear line separating R&D-based pharmaceutical companies and generic companies; on one side were innovator pharmaceutical companies focused on developing innovative new...Read more

The issue of ownership structure and its effect on corporate governance has invited interest and attention from researchers in the United States, Europe and the other parts of the...Read more

Global M&A activity increasingly focuses on businesses with assets and/or sales in the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. From the end of May 2012, when the regime...Read more

Forensic engineering is the application of the art and science of engineering in the jurisprudence system, requiring the services of appropriately qualified and experienced professional engineers. Forensic engineering may include...Read more

While cloud computing holds tremendous potential to drive efficiency, cost-savings, innovation and growth in both public and private sectors, there are certain obstacles to rapid adoption around the world in...Read more

This paper discusses and evaluates dispute strategies and the different aspects thereof. The concept of dispute strategy is analyzed mainly in three different contexts; Firstly, how dispute strategies can be...Read more

On 3rd June 2011 Viviane Reding Vice-President of the European Commission ("VP Reding) delivered a key-note speech – "The Next Steps towards a European Contract law for Businesses and Consumers"...Read more

For multi-national corporate counsel, the complex web of national and super-national legislation and regulation in Europe may seem an intractable fettering of activity. The updating of the 1995 European Directive,...Read more

The Competition Act of Malaysia was passed in July 2010. The said Competition Act 2010 (the “Act”) came into force on 1 January 2012. The objective of the Act is...Read more

Now that the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA) is law and is beginning to phase into effect, the patent community has begun to focus and understand what has...Read more

Global corporate governance is primarily meant to be a system fostering methodological processes, systematic regulations and astute initiatives for the benefit of the international community of shareholders and stakeholders, and...Read more

Recent developments in the EU regulatory environment for consumer products illustrate the need for in-house regulatory and legal professionals to embed themselves in the product development and regulatory processes of...Read more

Decision theory has been applied in an empirical and statistical manner when analyzing decisions made in the business sphere. Political, social and philosophical elements render the legal sphere less...Read more

What do we do when we are a service provider and the client insists on its own contract written under a law other than English? Whilst the commercial instinct may...Read more

The current Siemens Compliance System was developed in 2007 and 2008, initially in response to criminal investigations undertaken by the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Munich, the US Securities...Read more