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The Sustainable Contract

Sustainability has been an integral part of Eni and Enel's culture and strategy for years, as well as a real source of economic value, driving a process of continuous and...Read more

Edoardo Marcenaro
Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs , Enel Grids srl, Italy

Pietro Galizzi
Head of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Affairs, Eni gas e luce S.p.A, Italy
2020: In-House (and House) Turned Upside Down

In this paper, we look back at 2020 to assess the impact the pandemic has had on our lives, both personally and professionally, and on the legal profession as a...Read more
Nicolas Vielliard
Senior Counsel , Shawcor , Netherlands

Viviane Bordin Vielliard
Independent Legal Consultant , PostNL , Netherlands
Sustainability Management: The Role of the Legal Department

In recent years we have observed a rising internal and external pressure on companies to improve their sustainability-related performances; companies responded with an exponential increase in sustainability reporting and planning...Read more
Federico Piccaluga
General Counsel, Duferco Participations Holding SA, Switzerland
Negotiating Commercial Terms and Mitigating Risks in Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in The United States
In 2019, commercial and industrial purchasers (C&I), particularly in the United States (U.S.), signed record renewable energy deals with third-party developers through power purchase agreements. Worldwide contracts that were signed...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
An Evolutionary Nexus Between Private & Charitable Corporate Governance. Can charities provide thought leadership to a private sector that is questioning the norm of shareholder primacy?

The ongoing debate over the merits of shareholder primacy versus a stakeholder based approach to corporate governance continues to foster active discussion and engagement across the legal and wider community...Read more

Anna White
General Counsel, EIT Climate-KIC, UK
Elements of an Integrated Corporate Compliance System
The term compliance generally refers to the set of instructions and procedures that allow an organization to meet the requirements of a «rule», whether of a legislative or regulatory nature....Read more

Luca Franceschini
Head of Integrated Compliance, Eni S.p.A., Italy
Resourcing an In-House Legal Department: What’s Enough?

In this paper, I discuss the requirements of an in-house legal department and the role of in-house counsel. Depending on the size of the organisation (all-encompassing term to include private...Read more
Nicolas Vielliard
Senior Counsel , Shawcor , Netherlands
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
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
The Role of Competition in the Construction of the EU Internal Energy Market From the Prism of the Power Exchange

Power Exchanges (PX) have been at the cornerstone of the liberalisation of the wholesale electricity market in the 1990s and then of the integration of the single internal electricity market...Read more

Zohra Boumedhel
Head of Legal Affairs, Epex Spot, France

Antoine Donne
Legal Counsel, Epex Spot, France