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Bilateral Investment Treaties and Amendments to the Corresponding Private Investment Contracts are Long Overdue: They Fail to Cater for the Interests of Both Investors and Beneficiaries
Revised policies for drafting bi-lateral investment agreements and investment contracts as products of these agreements are long overdue. By the same token, a reflection on the attitudinal changes on the...Read more
Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
Ten Things Civil Law-system Lawyers Should Know About Common Law Contracts (That They Didn’t Teach Me at Law School)
My most sincere apologies to those readers who are qualified in common law jurisdictions as this paper is mainly addressed to an audience of civil law-system lawyers who, as myself,...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
Bridging the Savings and Investing Gap: A New Approach to Terms for Retail Investment Services
In this article we discuss how our work putting a better understanding of consumers at the heart of everything we do and our work readying Barclays for Open Finance, incentivised...Read more
Claire Mooney
Lawyer, Barclays, UK
Sally Wallwork
Lawyer, Barclays, UK
Identifying Controllers and Processors in a Blockchain Environment in the Light of GDPR
Blockchain technologies have emerged as a disruptive way of executing business processes in decentralised environments. It was originally created to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions (such as Bitcoin), which are currently facing...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Critique of the U.S. Department of Justice Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
On April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (the “DOJ”) published updated guidance (the “DOJ Guidance”) on the evaluation of a company’s corporate compliance program (a “CCP”)....Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
How to Build A Bridge of Synergies Between In-House Counsels and External Lawyers.
Over the years, I have read several articles and I have taken part in several discussions about the relationship between in-house counsels and external lawyers and on the latter’s added-value...Read more
Isabel Charraz
Country Counsel Portugal and Greece, Citibank Europe , Portugal
How the Legal Department Becomes a Business Partner – An Insider’s Guide
The current organization of our legal department has a 25-year history of expertise in international coverage of corporate, consumer finance, data privacy and contractual law, including M&A transactions. After an...Read more
Dragana Radojevic
Head of M&A Legal, BNP Paribas Personal Finance SA, France
Lawyers Working Backwards
It is important to take inspiration from outside your own organisation. In-house lawyers need to be commercial to succeed. Bringing these ideas together, lawyers at Barclays are adapting and adopting...Read more
Hayley Waddington
Legal Counsel, Barclays Bank - Ventures, UK
Tyler Dearson
Barclays Bank - Ventures, UK
Corporate Social Responsibility: An overview in the Indian Context
The Companies Act, 2013 (“Act”) of India codified for the first time through its provisions under section 135 the essence and requirement of Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) in the Indian...Read more
Kiran Chitale
B.Com, LL.B., FCS, Pune, India, India
Dealing with Regional Agreements: A Practical Approach
As with empires on which the sun never sets, big multi-national companies from diverse economic sectors which run different lines of businesses around the globe have to deal with many...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain