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Meeting the Challenges of European Union Anti-trust Compliance with Technical Innovation
To paraphrase an old adage – “God could not be everywhere all the time, that’s why he invented regulators”! However, as most legislators and regulation draftsmen would have it, their...Read more
David Kemp
xecutive Director of Legal Policy, HP Autonomy, UK
Lawyers as Negotiators: Hitting the Wrong Targets?
The annual IACCM study of the most frequently negotiated terms in business-to-business contracts once again reveals a strong focus on the provisions that deal with risk allocation and the consequences...Read more
Sally Hughes
Chief Executive Officer, IACCM - International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, UK
Open Innovation Collaborations: Practical Guidance for In-House Patent Attorneys
Professor Henry Chesbrough first coined the term “Open Innovation” in 2003, describing Open Innovation (OI) as “a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well...Read more
Matt Goodwin
General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Unilever, UK
Harmonisation for Consumer Finance Organisations in the Context of the Data Protection and Passporting Directives - A Critical Review
This article looks at the conflict between commercial and legal aspects of EU policy making. In particular in the consumer finance sector whether two fundamental planks – Data Protection and...Read more
Solomon Osagie
Chief Legal Counsel, TSYS International, UK
Corporate Governance Principles in Denmark - Ticking a Box or Driving Shareholder Value?
Any Danish company which has its securities admitted to trading on a regulated market has been exposed to regulation on Corporate Governance throughout the last decade. The Danish Committee on...Read more
Mike Butcher
General Counsel and Company Secretary, Veolia Environment UK Limited, UK
Practical Steps and Approaches for Handling and Managing Regulatory Investigations
Increasing levels of legislation across markets increases regulatory risks, including risks from investigations, for both firms and individuals. This is likely to require renewed focus on compliance as well as...Read more
Ifeanyi Uyanneh
Director, Compliance, Affinion International Limited, UK
The Importance of Strategic Management of an In-House Function
This article seeks to emphasize the importance of Managers having a strategic approach to the management of their In-house teams. Managers must be deliberate when faced with choices and those...Read more
Solomon Osagie
Chief Legal Counsel, TSYS International, UK
The Legal Implications of Data Governance in the Financial Services Sector in the UK
Data governance has become one of the issues of key interest for those who work in the financial services industry in the United Kingdom (UK). Data protection laws have been...Read more
Julie Varcoe-Cocks
Lawyer, UK
Irish Arbitration Act 2010: A New Act for a Centuries Old Tradition
Over the centuries, Éire or Ireland has been described by historians in many different ways: ‘The Green Isle’, ‘The land of Saints and Scholars’, the ‘Land of a Thousand...Read more
Rory O'Keeffe
Legal Counsel, Accenture, UK
Overview of Ofcom's Recent Decision Requiring Sky to Wholesale its Premium Sports Channels to Competing Retail Operators in the UK
On 31 March 2010, Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, issued a Statement, requiring BSkyB Limited (‘Sky’) to wholesale certain of its premium sports channels to competing operators in the UK...Read more
Ciaran Walker
Senior Competition Counsel, Bt, UK