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Bringing Fairness to FCPA Settlements: Protecting the Corporate Form through Respondeat Inferior Subsidiary Liability
The 2012 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) resource guide  to the FCPA (Guide) suggests two theories for imposing liability on an issuer for...Read more

Peter Manda
Attorney, Peter Manda, Esq., USA
Everything You Know About Lawyer Selection is Wrong: Big Data Analyzes Litigation

The Brad Pitt film, Moneyball, portrays Billy Beane baseball team manager of the Oakland A’s struggling against accepted dogma in player selection. Beane’s insight was to use already available player...Read more

Toby Unwin
Chief Innovation Officer, Premonition LLC, USA
Regulation of Hybrid Financial Instruments Proposed by the OECD
Nowadays, more and more companies are involved in cross-boarder transactions. One of the mechanisms to obtain tax advantages from such transactions is the usage of hybrid financial instruments. In last...Read more

Ekaterina Pleskova
Tax Analyst, Netherlands
Going Global: A Case Study of Lincoln Center’s Legal Department
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (“LCPA”), located in New York City, is the world’s largest and most comprehensive performing arts center. For over half a century, Lincoln Center has...Read more

Lesley Rosenthal
SVP, General Counsel & Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts, Inc., USA
Systemic Fraud and Error
The procurement function is the key to success in most manufacturing businesses. It is the business process involved from recognising that something needs to be acquired, through to ordering and...Read more
Jan Howells
In-House Counsel, Total Marketing Network, UK
IP Strategy in the Age of Big Data
Joren de Wachter invites In-House Counsel to re-model their IP strategy based on the inevitable growth of “Big Data”. He argues that businesses which allow free access to data are...Read more

Joren De Wachter
IP Strategist, Integrating Technology, IP & business models, Belgium
I Can Name that Brand in Three Notes: Non-Traditional Trademarks for Traditional Goods
People are exposed to trademarks on a daily basis. Trademarks are a part of everyone’s everyday life. Trademarks are used on clothing, food, entertainment, cosmetics, etc. Unlike other aspects of...Read more
Kathryn Belleau
Consultant, Kgb Consulting, Llc, USA
Stormy Digital Weather Ahead: The Forecast for Cross-Border eDiscovery in the Context of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations


We live in a digital world. Today, information is power, and electronically stored information (“ESI”) is its global currency. It is a world where well over 90% of information is...Read more

Jayne Rothman
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Epiq Systems, USA

James Daley
Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw, USA
Alison Wisniewski
Senior Legal Counsel, EPIQ Systems, Inc. , USA
The Global Impact of the New HIPAA Rules on Cloud Service Providers: A Hypothetical Conversation
As in house counsel, we are often tasked with wearing multiple hats, not all of which are legal. This can occasionally be a challenge, but in most cases, it represents...Read more

Todd Tabor
Associate General Counsel, Enterprise Security Products, HP Software, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), USA
M&A and the Need for Proper Governance Processes in the Defence/Homeland Security Verticals and the Grave Security Threat to Sovereign Nations - The Most Petrifying Area of National and International Security:
The Surreptitious Use of Dual Technology and the need to scrutinise Global merger and Acquisition activity in the Defence, Aerospace, Space  and High-Technology verticals’ – this Article elementally examines...Read more