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What Will the In-House Legal Department of Tomorrow Look Like?
How many articles read, how many conferences attended around this question about a vision of the future of in-house legal counsels; but what concrete actions do we need to integrate...Read more
Cécile Kavalses
General Counsel Benelux & The Nordics, Atos, Netherlands
Fighting Back Against Misleading Competitor Advertising: How Garmin Successfully Navigated a Route to Banning Misleading Claims by TomTom in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Misleading advertising by a brand's competitors can take many forms. When it uses the 'target' brand's trade marks, and therefore falls within the narrow definition of explicit comparative advertising and...Read more

Daniel Haije
Partner, Hoogenraad & Haak, advertising + IP advocaten, Netherlands
Joint Property and Joint Ventures; the Laws of Unintended Consequences

This article examines how joint property is legally held by participants in an upstream oil and gas joint venture. Using the examples of English law and Kazakh law, it makes...Read more

Reg Fowler
Senior Legal Counsel, Shell International BV, Netherlands
Regulation of Hybrid Financial Instruments Proposed by the OECD
Nowadays, more and more companies are involved in cross-boarder transactions. One of the mechanisms to obtain tax advantages from such transactions is the usage of hybrid financial instruments. In last...Read more

Ekaterina Pleskova
Tax Analyst, Netherlands
Brazil: An Investment Destination?

Brazil has been a major investment destination for many foreign companies and private investors alike during recent years. This strong interest was due to a series of national and international...Read more
Paul Wenting
Legal Manager, Applus RTD Group, Netherlands
Nicolas Vielliard
Senior Counsel , Shawcor , Netherlands
A Succession of Parties; When Does a State Succession Terminate a Contract?
Changes in governments and the overthrow of States are increasingly commonplace. Drafters of long term contracts with Sovereign States, be they loan agreements or natural resources or infrastructure investment agreements,...Read more

Reg Fowler
Senior Legal Counsel, Shell International BV, Netherlands
Increasing Your In-House Law Department's Efficiency: How Your Clients Can Help You
Increasing your in-house law department's efficiency. Today's businesses are operating in a challenging economic environment. It is increasingly difficult for companies to achieve their aggressive growth targets. Every function within...Read more
Axel Viaene
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, GrandVision, Netherlands
EU Data Protection Directive: A Thorn in the Side of the US Domestic Online Retailer
Companies outside the European Union are sometimes confronted with having to comply with European legislation around data protection. This is especially the case in the event they make use of...Read more
Nadja van der Veer
Deputy General Counsel Global Collect Services B.V., Global Collect Services BV, Netherlands
In-house v. Outside Counsel: Best of both worlds
Gone are the days when in-house counsels send out all relevant cases to just one outside counsel, with whom it had a good and solid relationship built over years and...Read more
Lisette Leuftink
Corporate Legal Counsel, Transavia Airlines C.V., Netherlands
The Acquisition of the Publicly-Held Shares of Shell Canada Limited
The acquisition by affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“RDS”) of the publicly-held shares of Shell Canada Limited (“Shell Canada”) was one of the major transactions in the oil and...Read more
Michael Coates
Senior Legal Counsel - Corporate, Shell International B.V., Netherlands