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Optional Arbitration Appeals: Principles and Practice
This article examines the availability of optional appellate review of a final award entered in private contractual arbitration proceedings between commercial entities in the United States. Such appellate review is...Read more
Joseph Aronds
Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA
Service Descriptions and Service Levels in the Digital World
As lawyers negotiating a contract we have a duty to our clients to protect their legal, commercial and business interests and we do so with great enthusiasm and skill for...Read more
Clive Davies
Senior Counsel and Professional Development Manager Legal & Commercial, UK&I, Fujitsu Services Limited, UK
A right to copy, right?
Copyright is an intellectual property right that vests automatically. The question arises, whether the right has international enforcement due to the nature of the right. Copyright subsists the moment it...Read more
Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal and IP Officers, Omnisient Rf Pty, South Africa
Antitrust Enforcement of No Poach/Wage Fixing Agreements Has Accelerated: Managers and Human Resource Professionals Should be Aware of The Enhanced Criminal Penalties for These Types of Agreements
Historically, when it came to antitrust enforcement, human resource (now commonly referred to as the ‘Talent Acquisition or ’Human Capital’ ) professionals were usually last on the list to...Read more
R. Mark McCareins
General Counsel, Metals Service Center Institute, USA
Will New York’s Indexed Payments for Tier 1 Renewable Energy Credits (“IRECs”) Hurt It’s Voluntary Corporate and Industrial (“C&I”) Renewable Energy Market?
Spurred by an imperative for durable energy offtake, long-term price certainty, improving project economics, and corporate social responsibility to combat climate change, corporate and non-utility industrial (“C&I”) buyers of renewable...Read more
Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Diversified False Statements Dispute Resolution Under Chinese Securities Law
In 2019, the People's Republic of China (the "PRC") amended its Securities Law and adopted the normal representative and special representative action mechanism in the multi-party securities fraud case. For...Read more
Guangdong Cheng
General Counsel, Nanshan Group, China
Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable throughout the European Union?
Nineteen Member States (out of 27) of the European Union have currently adopted the euro as their common currency and joined the banking union of the EU. By treaty provision...Read more
Duncan Alford
Associate Dean and Professor, University of South Carolina, USA
Business rescue may be used to restructure South African state-owned companies
The year 2021 marked ten years since the introduction of a new restructuring and administration regime in South African law, known as "business rescue", by the Companies Act, 2008. Since...Read more
Lerothodi Mohale
Senior Associate, Cdh, South Africa
Sibonile Moyo
Head: Legal Investments (SA) , Development Bank of Southern Africa, South Africa
Copyright Protection of Websites
Russian Civil Code does not explicitly recognize websites as objects of copyright. This does not mean that websites are not protected by copyright, but implies the following questions instead: What...Read more
Natalia Gulyaeva
Office Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells (CIS), Russia
Vadim Nyunyaev
Head of the Intellectual Property Projects (Ph. D. in Law), Marketing Communications Department, Corporate Communications Block, Gazprom Neft, Russia
ESG Colourwashing: Combating Modern-day Corporate Hypocrisy
Driven partly by the COVID-19 crisis, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria have gained significant relevance, creating a growing market demand for both ESG-based consumer and investor products. This is...Read more
Timo Matthias Spitzer
Head of Legal Corporate and Investment Banking Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Scandinavia, Banco Santander, SA., Germany
Klemen Kreca
Associate, Schönherr Attorneys at Law, Slovenia