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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
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
Bills of Lading Forum Clauses and International Conventions:
Is there a Fundamental Flaw?

The last century had witnessed a number of efforts to harmonise the rules on carriage by sea through international conventions, which have continued in this century. These conventions are Hague...Read more

Petar Kragic
Legal counsel , Tankerska Plovidba dd, Croatia
Automation of Non-disclosure Agreements: A Roadmap for a Legal Department to
Gain Advantage Using AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) for any corporation are an important tool to protect the exchange of information and avoid material legal fees and costs that may arise as result of a...Read more

Claudio Elia
Legal Director, STMicroelectronics International N.V., Switzerland
Divisibility of The Contractor's Performance in The Contract with The Construction Component Concluded Under the FIDIC Contract Terms
The issue of the divisibility of the subject of contract concluded under internationally standardized terms and conditions developed by FIDIC is of great importance, since the adoption of a particular...Read more

Grzegorz Pawlowski
Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, DCT Gdansk SA, Poland
Owner In-House Counsel Concerns in Large Construction Contracts 
When an owner contracts for a new large energy infrastructure project in Canada there are many issues they need to consider before, during and after the contract has been signed....Read more

Shannon Onook
Senior Legal Counsel, TransCanada Corporation, Canada
To Shoot or not to Shoot:
How to Navigate Buy-Sell Deadlock Resolution Mechanisms for
Joint-Ventures

Joint Venture (JV) governance can sometimes become a “sea of troubles” and raise the question for the partners whether or not to “take arms against” it.
When the JV agreement...Read more

Camelia Gardot
Compliance Partner- Head of Connected Intelligence, Airbus, France
‘Right of Access to the Site Under FIDIC – How To Properly Cooperate in the Investment Process’

Contemporary infrastructural investment projects are characterized by the increasing complexity of innovative technological and architectural solutions of the objects being the main subject of implemented undertakings. The high level...Read more

Grzegorz Pawlowski
Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, DCT Gdansk SA, Poland
A Unified Regulatory Approach for the Orderly Development of the Indian Infrastructure Sector: A case for Reforms.


Between fiscals 2008 and 2017, private investment in infrastructure was estimated to be ~Rs 20 lakh crore, or nearly a third of all infrastructure spending during the period. The share,...Read more
Ruchika Nayyar
Vice President and Head - Legal, GMR Group , India

Chrys Gonsalves
Lead Counsel, Gmr, India

Nupur Nadir
Head - Legal, GEPL, GMR Group, India
How to Contract Successfully for Agile Software Development


Andrew Hooles
Legal Director, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK