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Playing with Privilege
The paper argues that there are no sound a priori reasons for courts disallowing privilege in respect of communications between corporations and in-house counsel. It proposes that disallowing privilege for...Read more
Mitchell Landrigan
Legal Counsel - Access & Interconnect, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
Evolving Financial Consumer Protection Standards in Columbia: Issues for Legal Counsels
In Colombia, banking has never been just another line of business activity. It has historically been classed as a public service, which has given rise to numerous forms of intervention...Read more
Antonio Núñez
Lawyer, Nuñez Rincon Abogados Consultores, Colombia
Regulatory risks during M&A projects:
A comparison of European, UK and US frameworks
Mergers and acquisitions represent a dynamic process of corporate culture and strategy. Empirical evidence indicates a high rate of failure of M&A's to create value for the shareholders of the...Read more
Nikolaos Dounis
Cluster Internal Control & Compliance Manager, Imperial Tobacco Group, Greece
Computer Forensics on a Budget
Planning is the key to keeping computer forensics on a budget. Notwithstanding, rigid, inflexible plans that do not take into account the uniqueness of each case are useless. Therefore, the...Read more

Hyattye Simmons
General Counsel , DFW Asian American Citzens Council, USA
Regulatory Practice in U.S. Banking Organizations: Recent Trends and Current Developments
Various developments over the past two decades have dramatically changed the work of regulatory lawyers in large and complex U.S. banking organizations. These...Read more
John Wright
Assistant General Counsel, Regulation and Compliance Section, Wells Fargo, USA
In-house Legal Counsel in a Bank: Tasks and Chances
With this article we intend to show the role of in-house legal counsel in an Italian bank, with a particular focus on the specific problems it has to face in...Read more
Luca Bonzanini
General Counsel, UBI Banca S.c.p.a., Italy
Implications of Counterfeiting and Piracy for European Competitiveness, Innovation, Economic Growth and Job Losses
Over the years, counterfeiting has become the greatest threat to established trademarks, and therefore brands, across all industry sectors. In the late ‘80s, it was viewed together, with its big...Read more

Richard Heath
Managing Director, Richard Heath (Ip) Associates, UK
Challenges of Antitrust Compliance for Global Companies
Introduction: Doing business in a globalised world for Groups of companies operating in dozens of countries, the issue of compliance is becoming one of the key challenges they have to...Read more
Jean-Yves Trochon
Senior Business Advisor, Corporate Compliance & Business Integrity, Ey, France
Construction Risk Management: Keys to Sound Contract Administration Best Practices
Murphy's Law: "if something can go wrong - it will"
For those of us who practice Construction Law, we have learned that Murphy actually invented two other secret...Read more

Brian Swartz
EVP, Legal & Commercial, Aecon Group Inc., Canada
Conducting Competition Law Training In-house
All businesses are required to act in compliance with the competition laws of the jurisdictions in which...Read more

Lalita Bajwa
Retired In-House Counsel, Retired, Singapore