Individual and Collective Corporate Liability in the European Union and the United States

Especially within the current networked society, with long chains of production and distribution, and holding chains, it is easy to conceive corporations more as faceless fiction. Yet, liability cannot be...Read more

Anna Wennäkoski
Senior Specialist , Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland, Finland
IPO from the GC perspective – “a marathon and a sprint”
On Friday 21 June 2019, City A.M. reported that “Trainline’s shares soared on their first day of trading today after the tech giant made its £1.7bn stock market debut. The...Read more

Neil Murrin
General Counsel and Director, Regulatory Affairs, Trainline, UK
Rails Projects: A Rising Need of Contracts to Stay on Tracks

The rail projects appear specific however they include generally the same tasks and targets: build and/or operate a rail network with dedicated trains.
A rail project involves successive steps to...Read more

Gilles Mugnier
International affairs director, Sncf, France
The Trump Administration’s New Era of Enforcement Policies and the impact on U.S. Multinational Companies
In response to the Trump Administration’s “America First” agenda , the principal agency responsible for administering U.S. immigration benefits, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), has issued a series of...Read more

Dorothy Capers
Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel , National Express Group , USA
The Implementation of the Swiss Popular Initiative "Stop Mass Immigration" within the Swiss Federal Railways SBB

On February 9th, 2014, the Swiss citizens voted in favour of the Swiss federal popular initiative “Stop Mass Immigration” launched by the national conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP) by a...Read more
Isabelle Sob
Legal Counsel, Swiss Federal Railways SBB, Switzerland
In-House Counsel in Parent Companies: A Balance Between Two Roles

One of the key-challenges for the in-house lawyers in parent companies remains to provide legal support to the Subsidiaries while ensuring the group governance.
These two roles are contradictory. However,...Read more

Gilles Mugnier
International affairs director, Sncf, France