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AI & the GDPR: How to Reconcile Both Areas from the European Law Perspective

Artificial intelligence is the latest in a long wave of disruptive technology, offering significant benefits but also creating risks if deployed in an uncontrolled manner. The EU AI Act ...Read more

Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
The Overlap Between Copyright and Designs in India, EU and the UK – A Case for Overhaul of the Indian Legal Framework

The primary beneficiaries of design protection are both short-lived fancy articles (such as toys, furniture, fashion designs, mock jewellery etc.) and longer-life articles (such as automobiles, designer watches, electronic products...Read more

Latha Nair
Counsel , K & S Partners, India

Amit Sindhwani
Head of IPR, Usha International, India
When Bob and Alice get hacked: Some Practical Guidance on the Operation and Limits of Cyber Risks Insurance


This article summarises the risks to which Cyber Insurance responds and identifies some limits and potential pitfalls of the policy wordings. It also touches on the legal and public policy...Read more

Guy Boyd
Chief Compliance Officer, Anz, Australia

Fred Hawke
Consultant, Clayton Utz, Australia
Lawyers, General Counsels & Boards – The Next Level of Partnership

Global headhunting firm Korn Ferry describes today’s general counsels (GCs) as bringing more to the table than just their legal knowledge and expertise. The GC role requires the individuals to...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
The Legal Framework on Foreign Exchange Transactions in Brazil: An Analysis of the Use of Cryptocurrencies to Exchange National Currencies


That cryptocurrencies have been defying central banks’ authority globally is no news. Central banks around the world have been lagging behind in a Sisyphus task of regulating situations that evolve...Read more

Juliana Bastianello Baldin Martins
Managing Director - Legal Affairs, GTIS Partners, Brazil
Bruno Quartieri Gaudêncio
Vice President - Legal Affairs , GTIS Partners, Brazil
Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures in Russia
Russian procedural codes indicate that one of the main purposes of civil proceedings is the peaceful settlement of disputes. Even though procedure codes contain an open list of alternative dispute...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
ESG - General Counsels as the Watchdog, Champion or Leader?
When the Bank I work for commenced its most recent annual strategy process, I was asked by the CEO to create the strategy for the Bank in response to two...Read more

Richard Bryan
General Counsel, Cambridge & Counties Bank Limited, UK
If you Litigate, be Commercial: Litigation Funding and Risk Mitigation



A contact, a senior in-house lawyer for a multi-national software and hardware firm, said his days were regularly punctuated with calls from members of the sales team asking whether they...Read more

Razi Mireskandari
Managing Partner, Simons Muirhead Burton, UK

David Phillips
Senior Associate, Simons Muirhead Burton, UK

Howard Roberts
In-house Counsel, Maxima Creditor Resolutions , UK
The Path to Compliance Success

Suddenly your ever growing portfolio of responsibilities includes ethics and compliance. How should you look at the existing program or start to build a program? What does success look like?...Read more

Lorena Cobiella
Senior Consultant, Exemplify Consulting LLC, Switzerland

Michael Fawlk
Founder & CEO, Exemplify Consulting LLC, Switzerland
Independence of the Compliance Function & What Makes a Compliance Officer Successful
This article addresses the question of why the Compliance Function in financial services firms, including banks, needs to be independent, and the factors that can contribute to such independence. “‘Independent’...Read more

Elizabeth Fiorelli
Assistant Adviser of Global Legal and Compliance , Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, New York Branch, USA