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Governing and Innovating for Good: The Public Private Frontier
What does it mean for an organisation to govern and innovate for good? What principles can organisations enshrine – structurally or otherwise – to ensure the common good is always...Read more
Anna White
General Counsel, EIT Climate-KIC, UK
Merger and Acquisition During Covid 19 Situation – Strange Experience
Globally we have been in a strange situation for almost 18 months. Covid 19 has created havoc worldwide. Many lives have been lost and families destroyed. Livelihoods of many have...Read more
Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
President (Legal) & General Counsel, Hinduja Group, London, UK
Individual and Collective Corporate Liability in the European Union and the United States
Especially within the current networked society, with long chains of production and distribution, and holding chains, it is easy to conceive corporations more as faceless fiction. Yet, liability cannot be...Read more
Anna Wennäkoski
Senior Specialist , Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland, Finland
Decentralized Finance and Distributed Autonomous Organizations: on the Rise
The traditional finance market is centralized. Central authorities issue the currency that powers our economy. Centralized financial organizations, e.g., banks, control our assets. Hence, the ability to regulate the flow...Read more
Joseph Bambara
Attorney at Law, WithersworldWide/UCNY, USA
IPO from the GC perspective – “a marathon and a sprint”
On Friday 21 June 2019, City A.M. reported that “Trainline’s shares soared on their first day of trading today after the tech giant made its £1.7bn stock market debut. The...Read more
Neil Murrin
General Counsel and Director, Regulatory Affairs, Trainline, UK
The Parent Company’s Liability for its Foreign Subsidiary
The limited liability has been the foundation of the corporate legal framework since the establishment of the corporate legal concept, and the parent company and its subsidiary are separate entities,...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Drafting Commercial Contracts Some Practical Ideas
Over 35 years of working with legal documents I have seen more horrors than is healthy: services agreements with goods warranties wallowing in the undergrowth; clauses that ran for hundreds...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Non-Compete Provisions Under The Indian Contract Act and its Applicability: An Analysis
It is a common practice amongst employers in India to have a provision incorporated into the employment contracts that in some fashion restricts the employees from pursuing activities contrary to...Read more
Harish Nambiar
Vice President – Legal, General Counsel (Atos|Syntel), General Counsel (Atos – India) and Compliance Officer, Atos Syntel, India
Considering the Rationale of Incorporating Force Majeure Clauses in Commercial Contracts Between the Parties to a Commercial Contract
Force Majeure clauses are often incorporated by practising lawyers (other than Counsels) as a matter of practice in drafting commercial contracts, be they domestic or transnational, apparently without realising that...Read more
Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
Contract Design and Simplification – is this now a must-do?
Is the pendulum shifting? In a fast, technology-driven world, business stakeholders are keen to move away from dense walls of text in contracts. Increasingly, they understand that contracts are a...Read more
Paula Doyle
Chief Legal Innovation Officer, World Commerce & Contracting , USA
Stefania Passera
Contract Designer, Passera Design, World Commerce & Contracting, University of Vaasa, Finland