Biodiversity Net Gain and the Task Force for Nature
Disclosures Help Prevent the Sixth Mass Extinction?
Scientists recognise a dual planetary crisis: climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. The current extermination of nature by humans is often called the sixth mass extinction. Climate breakdown is caused by...Read more
Simon Boyle
Legal Director, Landmark Information Group, UK
WeWork’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and leases in Brazil
Cross-border effects of bankruptcy procedures in the U.S. gained a new chapter in 2023, when WeWork Group filed for Chapter 11. WeWork has since claimed that this reorganization would not...Read more
Nicholas Minoru Fernandes Yoshino
Associate - Legal Affairs, GTIS Partners, Brazil
Juliana Bastianello Baldin Martins
Managing Director - Legal Affairs, GTIS Partners, Brazil
The Legal Framework on Foreign Exchange Transactions in Brazil: An Analysis of the Use of Cryptocurrencies to Exchange National Currencies
That cryptocurrencies have been defying central banks’ authority globally is no news. Central banks around the world have been lagging behind in a Sisyphus task of regulating situations that evolve...Read more
Juliana Bastianello Baldin Martins
Managing Director - Legal Affairs, GTIS Partners, Brazil
Bruno Quartieri Gaudêncio
Vice President - Legal Affairs , GTIS Partners, Brazil
Optional Arbitration Appeals: Principles and Practice
This article examines the availability of optional appellate review of a final award entered in private contractual arbitration proceedings between commercial entities in the United States. Such appellate review is...Read more
Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
Trying Civil Cases Remotely During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article addresses the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic (“Pandemic”) has had on civil trial practice in the United States’ federal and state court systems. It discusses objections that...Read more
Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
Conflicts of Interests in Shareholders’ Meetings of Brazilian Corporations: the Legal Framework according to Scholars and the Case Law of the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission
The issue addressed in this paper relates to the interpretation, according to Brazilian scholars and the case law of the decision board of the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission, of...Read more
Juliana Bastianello Baldin Martins
Managing Director - Legal Affairs, GTIS Partners, Brazil
Practice and Procedure in a Representative State Court System
This article examines civil practice and procedure at the pre-trial level under the “best practices” rules of the courts of the State of New Jersey. Although each of the fifty...Read more
Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
The Single Best Lesson You Can Teach in Ethics Training: Secrets Hate Being Kept
When you train your people on your company’s code of ethics, what is the single-most useful lesson you can impart? What is the one thing you want everybody to take...Read more
Mark Ohringer
Global General Counsel, Jones Lang LaSalle, USA
How to Structure a €1bn Pan-European Office Portfolio Sales Transaction for Four German Open-Ended Real-Estate Funds – The Union Investment ‘Aqua Portfolio’ Transaction
In 2015, French investor Amundi Immobilier bought the €1bn Aqua Portfolio from Union Investment Real Estate GmbH, Hamburg (“Union Investment”) in what was shaping up to be one of the...Read more
Darius Soglowek
Legal Counsel Real Estate (Syndikusanwalt), Union Investment, Germany
Roman Reher
Legal Counsel, Head of Real Estate Transactions, Union Investment, Germany
Marc Lauterfeld
General Counsel Real Estate, Union Investment, Germany
Navigating Intellectual Property in Mergers and Acquisitions
The purpose of this article is to arm in-house counsel with the tools, facts and case studies necessary to guide and assist business leaders, as both a legal and business...Read more
Kelly Li
Deputy General Counsel, Waitex Group of Companies, USA