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The General Counsels Changing Role in ESG Transformation within the Mining and Extractives Industries
The concept of ‘Sustainability’, also known as ‘ESG’ (environmental, social, and governance) has become not only a global buzz word, but has functioned as a compass for companies across industries,...Read more
Victoria Usova
Group Legal Counsel, Central Asia Metals, UK
Lawyer Leaders, Kindness & Mental Health
As our world emerges from the global COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed (and in some cases ravaged) the lives of many at every level, many leaders and those they lead...Read more
Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Negotiating International Development Arrangements in a
Franchise System
International expansion often involves the creation of some form of business relationship with a party that resides in the local market. Yum! Brands is a global success story, with around...Read more
Sally Glover
Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer, KFC South Pacific, Australia
Stephen Giles
Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia
U.S. Plays Catch-up to Close Long-Standing Gaps in Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Part One
The U.S. Government finally seems to begin focusing on closing long-standing and significant gaps in existing anti-money and contra-terrorist financing laws (together, “AML”) that have been in existence for nearly...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), USA
German Patent Modernisation Act – A Game Changer for Protection of Confidential Information in Patent Litigation?
Protection of confidential information disclosed in litigation used to be insufficient in Germany. For a long time, it was only regulated fragmentarily. Despite the implementation of the Trade Secret Directive...Read more
Nikita Alymov
Attorney-at-law , Hoffmann Eite , Germany
Dirk Schüßler-Langeheine
attorney-at-law, partner , Hoffmann Eitle , Germany
Metaverse and Privacy
From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over...Read more
Matthias Artzt
Senior Legal Counsel, Deutsche Bank AG, Germany
Gary Weingarden
Counsel, Data Protection Officer, Notarize, Inc., USA
Best Practices in Managing an In-House Legal Department 
This paper discusses certain best practices in the management of an in-house legal department. Topics covered herewith include the structuring of the legal department within an organisation, managing the legal...Read more
Nicolas Vielliard
Senior Counsel , Shawcor , Netherlands
How to Obtain a GDPR-Compliant Consent?
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), consent is one of the more well-known legal bases upon which personal data can lawfully be processed. At a first glance, it seems...Read more
Silvia Gorlani
Data Protection Officer, Mediamarket SpA (Mediaworld), Italy
Agnès Terreau
Data Protection Officer ManpowerGroup Switzerland, ManpowerGroup, Germany
The Future of Remote Working – Does it have one?
In July 2021, Morgan Stanley’s chief legal officer, Eric Grossman, indicated in a memo to law firms his organisation instructed, that those who maintain remote working practices instead of returning...Read more
Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Conflict of Laws and Compliance
Normally conflict of Laws (also called private international law) is defined as the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrences that have...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director, Legal, Cnpc America, Canada