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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
PRIIPs Regulation and its Implementation: Consequences and Challenges
From 31 December 2016, manufacturers and distributors of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) will have to comply with the Regulation on Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and...Read more
Emilia Petrocelli
Senior Compliance Officer, Mediobanca SpA, Italy
Governance and Organisational Dilemmas in Building up Your
Due Diligence Process
In modern corporate times, due diligence investigations into third parties cannot be left solely to the initiative of the virtuous employee or to the goodwill of the competent manager. They...Read more
Lorenzo Mecocci
Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel, Aerospace & Defence, Sirio Panel S.p.A., Italy
The Hybrid Financial Instruments in Italy: A First Attempt to Define this Category
In the Italian market – as well as in the European and international market – a new type of financial instrument has been often mentioned and used by financial and...Read more
Ferdinando Bruno
Head of Italian Restructuring , UniCredit Bank AG, Milan Branch, (UniCredit Group), Italy
Benchmarking
In practise, benchmarking is a comparison method in order to assess and/or to evaluate a performance making a comparison with others performances of the same type. The comparison can be...Read more
Marina Vitale
Regional Legal Counsel, Hewlett Packard, Italy