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Increased regulations and class action suits over the last decade have resulted in a new and riskier corporate and management liability landscape—one in which as many as 60 percent of...Read more

The focus of this paper is on the priority duties owed by Australian life companies and their directors to policyholders and addresses how those duties operate where the policyholder...Read more

We live in an exciting age. Advances in technology are coming at a pace, and having an impact on every-day life, unrivalled since the beginning of the 20th century. At...Read more

The recent spate of news resulting from the leak of over 11 million documents from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, (now commonly known as the Panama Papers or the...Read more

Presently, Portugal is one of the countries where several multinational companies have decided to base their pooled, back-office or shared services. Natural, cultural and economic reasons are behind such decisions,...Read more

Insurance law in the UK has been modernised by the recent consumer and commercial insurance law reforms set out in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 (“CIDRA”) and...Read more

In any assessment of how these two new regulators are performing, it's necessary to consider why the Government bothered to reform the system at all and what was it trying...Read more

“Act in haste, repent at leisure” is perhaps a fitting mantra for any aspiring lawyer. Reflecting on a problem is significantly preferable to acting too quickly and giving advice which...Read more

It is generally accepted that competition is good for business and good for consumers in part because competition encourages innovation and provides an incentive for businesses to reduce costs and...Read more

Over the past decade, the financial services industry has adopted the language of enterprise risk management, e.g., ERM. Although it can seem otherwise, the mass production of checklists, heatmaps, and...Read more