Vol.15, No. 58, Winter 2022

In recent years, we have seen extensive changes in the corporate landscape, not just to the commercial, legal and societal aspects but also how these changes have intertwined in increasingly...Read more

In his ominously titled book, “The End of Lawyers?” , Richard Susskind warns of the impending risk of lawyers being replaced by technology. The legal industry is being fundamentally disrupted...Read more

In an embarrassing rebuke, referred to by some as “the vote heard round the world” (Le Berre, 2021), the board of directors of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil lost a...Read more

How I ended up practicing maritime law – and managing insurance claims in a small town in Norway – is a story of chance, luck and following my instincts. My...Read more

1. On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted (51.9%:48.1%) to leave the European Union (the “EU”). The UK officially exited the EU on 31 January 2020, pursuant to the (domestically...Read more

This article is a detailed analysis of the “anti-profiteering” provisions under the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 of the Indian legal regime. Apart from delving into the domestic...Read more

Driven partly by the COVID-19 crisis, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria have gained significant relevance, creating a growing market demand for both ESG-based consumer and investor products. This is...Read more

The year 2021 marked ten years since the introduction of a new restructuring and administration regime in South African law, known as "business rescue", by the Companies Act, 2008. Since...Read more

Russian Civil Code does not explicitly recognize websites as objects of copyright. This does not mean that websites are not protected by copyright, but implies the following questions instead: What...Read more

The EU Digital COVID Certificate (formerly called Digital Green Certificate) is a digital proof that a person has either (i) been vaccinated against COVID-19, (ii) received a negative test result...Read more

What 2022 holds in store in terms of regulatory and risk evolutions and how companies and Compliance professionals should prepare to handle it? In other words, “Would there be trees...Read more

This note is for fresh graduates and young law professionals who, understandably, may be somewhat despondent and forlorn given that we are now in the third year of adapting and...Read more

As lawyers negotiating a contract we have a duty to our clients to protect their legal, commercial and business interests and we do so with great enthusiasm and skill for...Read more

Spurred by an imperative for durable energy offtake, long-term price certainty, improving project economics, and corporate social responsibility to combat climate change, corporate and non-utility industrial (“C&I”) buyers of renewable...Read more

In 2019, the People's Republic of China (the "PRC") amended its Securities Law and adopted the normal representative and special representative action mechanism in the multi-party securities fraud case. For...Read more

Nineteen Member States (out of 27) of the European Union have currently adopted the euro as their common currency and joined the banking union of the EU. By treaty provision...Read more

Copyright is an intellectual property right that vests automatically. The question arises, whether the right has international enforcement due to the nature of the right. Copyright subsists the moment it...Read more

Historically, when it came to antitrust enforcement, human resource (now commonly referred to as the ‘Talent Acquisition or ’Human Capital’ ) professionals were usually last on the list to...Read more