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In February of 2002, HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced on behalf of the U.A.E. the intention to establish the Dubai International Financial Centre (the “Centre” or the...Read more

Private equity investments are structured differently in the Middle East than in other regions of the world. Traditionally, the Middle East has been a source of capital for a number...Read more

No investment can be effective in the long term without proper risk management, and the outcomes of inadequate risk management turned out to be expensive. So from a certain perspective...Read more

When one entity is a joint owner of a patent or pending patent application with another entity, there are many potential negative ramifications as to licensing, ability to enforce a...Read more

Statutory employer provisions are an important issue for in-house counsel in the construction industry – particularly in the heavy industrial and maintenance markets. If properly negotiated, these provisions result in...Read more

An email within an organization can travel just as easily from New York to California as it can to Tokyo. Yet, when that email becomes evidence in litigation filed in...Read more

In a previous article I noted that Colombia was experiencing a deepening in state intervention in the activities of banks and other financial institutions, often inspired by consumer right concerns....Read more

In 1979, Thailand adopted a Patent Act, B.E. 2522 (1979) to give protection for inventions and product designs. It has gone through 2 amendments that took place in...Read more

In-house lawyers live in a world where every day the practice of law directly interfaces with the operation of a business. Within this world, the focus is not just on...Read more

Two years! That is how long, until very recently, the Competition Commission (“CC”) would normally take to deliver one of its market investigation reports. The CC remedies that result would...Read more