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Wärtsilä Legal Hackathon: Case Study 
Global in-house legal counsel team embracing innovation and digitalisation. Someone might think that Legal would not be among the first organisations to embrace innovation and digitalisation but luckily in the...Read more
Matteo Iles
Legal Counsel - MPS & Sourcing, Wärtsilä Corporation, Italy
The Wates Principles: Corporate Governance in Large Private Companies
On 10 December 2018, the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the final version of the Wates Principles for Large Private Companies. This is the first shot at drafting a...Read more
Emiliano Berti
Head of Legal and Compliance, Europe, Nokia Corporation, Italy
Legal Perspectives on Predictive Maintenance: A Case Study
The “fourth industrial revolution” is impacting manufacturing systems, leading conventional industry into an hyper-connected world of sensors, metrics and data flows inside and outside the factories. Such augmented complexity goes...Read more
Corrado Druetta
Senior Legal Counsel , COMAU S.p.A., Italy
Contractual Recognition of Bail-in
The EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (2014/59/EU) (the “BRRD”) is part of a series of European Union (“EU”) banking reforms made in response to the financial crisis and...Read more
Silvia Morlino
Senior Legal Counsel, European primary bank, Italy
Fintech, Regtech and Impacts on In-House Legal Departments
“Fintech” is the acronym for financial-technology. Innovation is strongly changing the finance sector and such changes affect also the legal environment. On one hand, lawyers are asked to provide legal...Read more
Andrea Brancatelli
Assistant General Counsel , MoneyGram , Italy
Convertible Contracts:The In-house Counsel Perspective
For its fast track projects, the Oil & Gas industry privileges Lump Sum contract types even in cases where definition of the project is not sufficiently advanced.
“Fast-tracking” can be...Read more
Cristina Montanaro
Senior Legal Counsel, TechnipFMC, Italy
Liability Issues in Advanced Robotics: An Introduction for European In-House Counsels
On February 16th 2017, the European Parliament adopted the Resolution on Civil Law Rules on Robotics, to address legal and ethical issues emerging from technological developments in the field of...Read more
Corrado Druetta
Senior Legal Counsel , COMAU S.p.A., Italy
Legal Best-Practices and Multicultural Skills as Key to the Success of the In-House Profession When Dealing With Customers in the People’s Republic of China and in The United States of America: A Comparison
In today’s fast-paced international market, in-house lawyers are required to develop and define the skill of what we could call multiculturalism – whether if selling, purchasing, networking, merging or creating...Read more
Fiorenza Provenzano
Legal Department Executive, SPEA S.p.A., Italy
Worlwide Consumer Warranty Policy
The purpose of this paper is to provide general rules to be considered by a worldwide retail company when granting consumers warranty on its products.
The paper has been drafted on...Read more
Giorgia Armanni
General Counsel, Furla S.p.A., Italy
Intellectual Property Rights: New Approach Supporting Farmers’ Rights
Genetic diversity is and has been crucial for human survival and wellbeing. Plant genetic resources are of inestimable value to humankind. Since the beginning of agriculture, farmers, through careful selection...Read more
Juanita Chaves Posada
Farmers' Rights Capacity Development Manager, Global Forum on Agricultural Research- GFAR, Italy