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Platform-Enabled Commerce: Unlocking Economic Opportunity Through Independent Internationalisation of Small Enterprises

Global trade is undergoing a fundamental transformation. It is no longer confined to container shipments of one company’s wares along predetermined trade corridors. Today, global trade also includes commerce by...Read more

Hanne Melin Olbe
Director Global Public Policy, eBay Inc., Switzerland
Negotiating IT Contracts – A Walk to Canossa?
For many years I have negotiated IT contracts, mainly in Switzerland and Germany, and made valuable experience which I would like to share and gain feedback on it. For the...Read more

Martin Frey
General Counsel, Crealogix AG, Switzerland
The Evolution of In-house Legal & IP Departments
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. This quote, likely incorrectly attributed to...Read more

Michael Kock
Head IP, Syngenta International AG, Switzerland
From Backstage to Lead Role: The Emergence of In-House Counsel in Executive Management

The evolution of General Counsel’s role within the corporate environment is an interesting one to observe. Traditionally, the in-house counsel was pigeonholed into a distinctly supporting role. The remit was...Read more

Morgan Deane
Chief Executive Officer & President of the Executive Board, Helvea-Baader Bank Group, Switzerland
Cyber Security: A Practical Viewpoint

Not a day goes by without a new cybersecurity hack which can threaten the very existence of the company concerned. Cybersecurity has shot up the list of concerns of...Read more
Nicolas Grunder
Group Head Legal, Software and IT, Abb, Switzerland

Iain Jacobs
Managing Director, The Contract Centre, Switzerland
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
Andrew Etkind
General Counsel, Garmin, Switzerland
Consumer Empowerment in The Internet of Things: A Silent Unfolding of a 'New Normal' Where Code Trumps Rights?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already here, estimated to encompass just short of 30 billion connected devices by 2020. These devices are made up of a physical object;...Read more

Hanne Melin Olbe
Director Global Public Policy, eBay Inc., Switzerland
The In-House Counsel as Legal Risk Manager and Business Partner: Are These Roles Compatible?
With a view to reducing the gap between the perception of the legal office (both internally and externally) and its actual role (communicated and implemented) and mental attitude, I wrote...Read more

Massimiliano Carpino
Global General Counsel, Gucci, Switzerland
The Next Governance Reform: How we create policy for uncertainty by enabling, learning and analysing
In a recent interview, the Swedish Prime Minister described what he saw as the modern approach to governance: legislative reforms rarely turn out exactly as planned, and so the legislator...Read more

Hanne Melin Olbe
Director Global Public Policy, eBay Inc., Switzerland
Digital Media in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Oportunities and Legal Challenges
The term digital media is widely understood. According to the open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia digital media shall mean a “form of electronic media where data are stored in digital (as opposed...Read more

Marc Bauer
Legal Director, AMGEN (Europe) GmbH, Switzerland