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Creating new legal service delivery systems for a complex world
The FMC Technologies legal team is relentless in trying to find new and better ways to deliver legal services to our customers ie the FMC Technologies business units. Key tenets...Read more
Jeff Carr
Vice President and General Counsel, FMC Technologies Inc, USA
Managing a bid situation
Whether your organisation is a bid target of a trade buyer or of a private equity fund, the demands on the legal, compliance, administrative and company secretarial functions are considerable...Read more

Gareth Williams
Head of Group Legal, Countrywide, UK
Copyright: Did Gowers get it wrong?
An analysis of the thinking behind the recommendations relating to copyright law set out in the Report (published 6 December 2006) of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. Was the...Read more
Adam Sutcliffe
Solicitor, Legal & Business Affairs, Channel 5 Broadcasting, UK
Structuring and Negotiating Global Supply/Outsourcing Deals
This article focuses on the following issues in structuring and negotiating a global supply/outsourcing transaction: potential structures for a global supply deal; commercial considerations in establishing a global supply deal;...Read more

Paul Graham
Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, UK
Overview of the new French insolvency law
The purpose of this article is to provide a quick overview of the changes brought by the new French law of 26th July 2005 reforming French insolvency proceedings and which...Read more
Hervé Guenassia
Legal Counsel, European Investment Fund, Luxembourg
The definition of legal risk and its management by central banks
Currently, there are no international rules specific to central banks on what is to be understood by "legal risk" and how it should be managed. In the context of the...Read more
Katja Wurtz
Principal Legal Counsel, European Central Bank, Germany
Mainstreaming of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Considerations in Nigerian Companies - Legal and Policy Drivers
This article describes some laws and policies in Nigeria mandating or recommending companies to implement or consider sustainability or ESG factors, including the Companies and Allied Matters Act and the...Read more

Adebisi Sanda
Governance Manager, Oando Energy Resources Inc., Nigeria
In-House Lawyers are Evolving From Legal Brain to Corporate Conscience
For decades, the General Counsel (GC) occupied the periphery of corporate life: a risk-averse technician of contracts and compliance. Those days are gone. In an age of regulatory scrutiny, geopolitical...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Orange Book Listings Under Scrutiny: What’s In, What’s Out, and Why It Matters


The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Orange Book, officially titled Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, plays a key role in the U.S. pharmaceutical patent and exclusivity system. The...Read more

Joanna Brougher
Owner & Principal, BioPharma Law Group PLLC, USA

Tom Irving
Partner, Marbury Law Group, USA

Michelle E. O'Brien
Partner, Marbury Law Group, USA