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The Venezuelan Energy Pivot of 2026: Sovereignty Recalibrated, Sanctions Internalized, and the Emergence of Alignment Risk
SanctionsEnergy
The 2026 restructuring of Venezuela’s hydrocarbon sector represents an unprecedented convergence of domestic legislative reform and extraterritorial regulatory conditioning. Following the January 3, 2026 political transition in Caracas and the...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
General Counsel, Cnpc Latin America, Canada
Immigration - Related Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions: Impact on Work Visas and Permanent Immigration Processes – United States
EmploymentIT
As global mergers and acquisitions are forecasted to continue strong in 2023, albeit more frequent and smaller in size, an informed in-house counsel must understand how these transactions and resulting...Read more
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Julie Lessard
Partner, Bcf, Canada
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Olga Prygoda
Solicitor, Bcf, Canada
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Mark Girgis
Chief Legal Officer, Hypertec Group, Canada
An Introduction to Alliance Contracting
ContractConsultant
At its simplest, an alliance contract (known in British Columbia (BC) as the project alliance agreement or PAA) is a contract between a project Owner (the Owner Participant or the...Read more
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Elizabeth Mayer
Partner, DLA Piper, Canada
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Karen Mill
Assistant Vice President, Legal, Infrastructure BC, Canada
Conflict of Laws and Compliance
ComplianceEnergy
Normally conflict of Laws (also called private international law) is defined as the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrences that have...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
General Counsel, Cnpc Latin America, Canada
The Parent Company’s Liability for its Foreign Subsidiary
ComplianceEnergy
The limited liability has been the foundation of the corporate legal framework since the establishment of the corporate legal concept, and the parent company and its subsidiary are separate entities,...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
Director Legal, Cnpc America., Canada
Force Majeure and Pandemic
ContractEnergy
Since the COVID-19 broke out in December 2019 in central China, the lockdown of the entire country ensued and then the disease has grown exponentially around the world thereafter. Countries...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
General Counsel, Cnpc Latin America, Canada
How to Navigate the Business in a Sanctioned Jurisdiction
InternationalEnergy
It is imperative for a company, irrespective of the place of its incorporation or its headquarters, to seriously consider to what extent and how to comply with the American sanctions...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
Director Legal, Cnpc America., Canada
Owner In-House Counsel Concerns in Large Construction Contracts
ContractEnergy
When an owner contracts for a new large energy infrastructure project in Canada there are many issues they need to consider before, during and after the contract has been signed....Read more
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Shannon Onook
Senior Legal Counsel, TransCanada Corporation, Canada
Attorney-Client Privilege for In-house Counsel
PrivilegeEnergy
A lawyer practicing in New York takes for granted claiming the attorney-client privilege no matter whether she/he works in a private law firm or a company, although there are so...Read more
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Haitao Zhang
Director Legal, Cnpc America., Canada
Helping Your Organization Maximize The Benefits of Free Trade Agreements
InternationalConsultant
To say we live in interesting times would be a massive understatement. The framework of laws, policies and politics that impact how and where our clients carry on business is...Read more
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Heather Innes
JD, LLB, CIC.c, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Counsel to LexSage Professional Corporation, Canada
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