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Blood, Paper, & Bed: How to Mitigate Risk Doing Business with the U.S. Federal, State, and Local Governments


Building a corporate brand and promoting corporate interests involves more than just producing and selling the best products and services—it also requires a company’s active involvement in a nation’s democracy....Read more

Jenny Kim
Deputy GC & VP, Public Policy, Koch Companies Public Sector, USA
Garret Scronce
Political Compliance and Operations Analyst , Koch Companies Public Sector, USA
Enforcement of Contracts: The Key to Ease of Doing Business in India


A ranking received under the Ease of Doing Business Reports by the World Bank is not a mere publicity boost for countries but directly has an effect on the...Read more

Oswald Dsouza
Group Legal Head, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Lipika Chimata
Legal Officer, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, India
Force Majeure and Pandemic
Since the COVID-19 broke out in December 2019 in central China, the lockdown of the entire country ensued and then the disease has grown exponentially around the world thereafter. Countries...Read more

Haitao Zhang
Director, Legal, Cnpc America, Canada
Smart Contracts – Self-Executing Contracts of the Future?

The first thing many people think of when they hear the term ‘smart contract’ is a contract that is somehow transposed into computer code and runs without any human intervention....Read more

Jelena Madir
General Counsel, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Switzerland
Limits of Liability Provisions for IT Service Contracts
Some of the most negotiated and critical provisions in information technology (“IT”) service contracts are those relating to the limits and exclusions of liability. As a partner in private practice...Read more

Clive Davies
Senior Counsel and Professional Development Manager Legal & Commercial, UK&I, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK
A Strategic View for the Applicability of the Duty of Care Doctrine in Consultancy Services Agreements
Consultancy services are becoming so relevant and necessary in all sectors that there is an urgent need to review the current models used to agree upon consultancy methods. After many...Read more

Fernanda de Cooker
Company Lawyer, MaxGrip B.V., Netherlands
Covid-19 - A Contractual Nightmare
While COVID-19 (previously known as ‘2019 novel coronavirus’) has engulfed the entire world and authorities have been desperately implementing umpteen measures to contain the spread of this pandemic; from a...Read more

Arun Subash
Legal Counsel for Oil and Gas - E&P, Reliance Industries Limited, India
Amazon v. Donald J. Trump: A Massive Defense Contract Award Tainted by the Appearance of Impropriety

An unconventional U.S. president personally attacking the CEO of Amazon, one of the country’s largest and most impactful companies, is salacious news. Important public policy considerations are implicated when those...Read more

Rodney Sweetland
Vice President and General Counsel, Camris International Inc., USA
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Amendments to the Corresponding Private Investment Contracts are Long Overdue: They Fail to Cater for the Interests of Both Investors and Beneficiaries


Revised policies for drafting bi-lateral investment agreements and investment contracts as products of these agreements are long overdue. By the same token, a reflection on the attitudinal changes on the...Read more

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK

Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
Ten Things Civil Law-system Lawyers Should Know About Common Law Contracts (That They Didn’t Teach Me at Law School)
My most sincere apologies to those readers who are qualified in common law jurisdictions as this paper is mainly addressed to an audience of civil law-system lawyers who, as myself,...Read more

Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain