Vol.15, No. 59, Spring 2022

In July 2021, Morgan Stanley’s chief legal officer, Eric Grossman, indicated in a memo to law firms his organisation instructed, that those who maintain remote working practices instead of returning...Read more

Normally conflict of Laws (also called private international law) is defined as the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrences that have...Read more

One of the requirements for an invention to be patentable is written description, which requires that the invention be described in sufficient detail for one of ordinary skill in the...Read more

This article examines the availability of optional appellate review of a final award entered in private contractual arbitration proceedings between commercial entities in the United States. Such appellate review is...Read more

This paper discusses certain best practices in the management of an in-house legal department. Topics covered herewith include the structuring of the legal department within an organisation, managing the legal...Read more

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), consent is one of the more well-known legal bases upon which personal data can lawfully be processed. At a first glance, it seems...Read more

International expansion often involves the creation of some form of business relationship with a party that resides in the local market. Yum! Brands is a global success story, with around...Read more

The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more

The concept of ‘Sustainability’, also known as ‘ESG’ (environmental, social, and governance) has become not only a global buzz word, but has functioned as a compass for companies across industries,...Read more

Protection of confidential information disclosed in litigation used to be insufficient in Germany. For a long time, it was only regulated fragmentarily. Despite the implementation of the Trade Secret Directive...Read more

As our world emerges from the global COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed (and in some cases ravaged) the lives of many at every level, many leaders and those they lead...Read more

From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over...Read more

Introduced in 2013, India became the first country in the world to statutorily mandate Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”), which is otherwise seen as a philanthropic activity undertaken at the discretion...Read more

This article focuses on the main legal aspects of technical data rights in the context of the marine industry. The article will overview how the increased volume of data and...Read more

Induced infringement finds its basis in 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) and holds a person, liable if he actively causes infringement, even if the actor himself is not the direct infringer....Read more

Innovator companies in the biopharmaceutical space are looking to their patent counsel for creative patent claiming strategies to protect their assets. In this article, using the Federal Circuit opinions in...Read more

As well as advising on all manner of commercial and procurement matters, the Council’s in-house commercial lawyers regularly encounter issues in connection with the provision of care services. Given the...Read more

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) has recently notified various amendments to enforce protectionist measures, which appear to resonate the objective behind the issuance of the famous (or rather, infamous)...Read more