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Overview of 2020 Italian Laws in Payment Services and
Expected Trends for 2021

2020 has experienced significant changes in the Italian payments market and also the relevant legal framework has seen a substantial boost in terms of new laws and amendments to existing...Read more

Andrea Brancatelli
Assistant General Counsel , MoneyGram , Italy
Negotiating Commercial Terms and Mitigating Risks in Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in The United States
In 2019, commercial and industrial purchasers (C&I), particularly in the United States (U.S.), signed record renewable energy deals with third-party developers through power purchase agreements. Worldwide contracts that were signed...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
2020s Strategic Patent Portfolio Management -
Challenges and Opportunities of a new Decade in a Traditional Product Producing Company

In the early twenties, traditional product producing companies face rapidly transforming business environments with ongoing technology shifts, converging industries and increased global competition. This changing world puts increasing demands on...Read more

Hanns Hallesius
Former Head of IP Electrolux and Senior Advisor Strategic IP Management, Hallesius Consulting, Bromma, Sweden
Competition Law Compliance in a Socially Distanced World
As a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, working life has changed for millions of people. The need to keep a distance from others in order to try to limit the...Read more

Ian Rose
VP Compliance, Volvo Trucks, Sweden
Brazilian Data Protection Law and its first Impacts
Following the global movement of countries to protect the personal data of national people, Brazil has definitely plunged into this theme by making the Brazilian data protection law applicable in...Read more

Mariana Bueno
Legal Manager & DPO, Mindray do Brasil, Brazil
Impacts That Social Distancing Rules Resulting from the Pandemic Have had on the Development of Distance Selling of Insurance Products and Effects of the Emergency Legislation Issued in Italy
Technological innovation has become a driver of change capable of influencing the entire process of insurance companies’ strategic, organisational and commercial development and is having a significant impact on the...Read more

Cristina Rustignoli
General Counsel , Generali Italia, Italy
Management and Risk Control Framework for Securing Intellectual Assets Transactions.


Adopting corporate governance standards for cross-jurisdictional transactions is a norm for an efficient business ecosystem. Globally, we find de facto and de jure standards, like Basel norms for banking, OECD...Read more
Utsab Banerjee
Manager Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

Prakash Deb Roy
Senior Associate – Legal , Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Patent Protection of Plants in AATF Biotechnology Project Countries



The basis of this article stems from the evolution of protection of plant biotechnology culminating in the extension of intellectual property rights to plant biotechnology. The World Trade Organization’s (WTO)...Read more

Alhaji Tejan-Cole
Legal Counsel, African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Kenya

Marcelin Tonye Mahop
IP Rights Consultant, African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Cameroon

Aprinah Magarinah Shikoli
African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Cameroon

Howard Okiror
Legal Counsel, African Agricultural Technology Foundation, Kenya
Did You Know That There is The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity? And Why Should you Care?

Cultural diversity is difficult to quantify, but a good indication is thought to be a count of the number of languages spoken in a region or in the world as...Read more

Juliette Passer
General Counsel, International Project Development Group, LLC,, USA
Managing Compliance Risk in a COVID and Post-COVID World



Managing risk can be complicated in the best of times, and the challenges associated with risk management become even greater when combined with the tremendous disruption caused by a global...Read more

Fabiana Lacerca-Allen
Chief Compliance Officer, Cipla, USA

Tatiyana Akers
Associate Director, Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA
Laura Hamm
Sr. Director, Corporate Compliance, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA

Brenda Crabtree
Director, Compliance Auditing and Monitoring, Aimmune Therapeutics, USA