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Bilateral Investment Treaties and Amendments to the Corresponding Private Investment Contracts are Long Overdue: They Fail to Cater for the Interests of Both Investors and Beneficiaries
Revised policies for drafting bi-lateral investment agreements and investment contracts as products of these agreements are long overdue. By the same token, a reflection on the attitudinal changes on the...Read more
Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
A Strategic View for the Applicability of the Duty of Care Doctrine in Consultancy Services Agreements
Consultancy services are becoming so relevant and necessary in all sectors that there is an urgent need to review the current models used to agree upon consultancy methods. After many...Read more
Fernanda de Cooker
Company Lawyer, MaxGrip B.V., Netherlands
Agile Lawyering
Having been lucky enough to work for a high growth tech company for over 15 years and latterly part of a network of General Counsel of similar ilk, there are...Read more
Neil Murrin
General Counsel and Director, Regulatory Affairs, Trainline, UK
Social Media 2020: Corporate Risks and Regulation
In August 2018, Elon Musk tweeted about having secured funding to make Tesla a private company at USD 420 per share. The impact of this tweet was an immediate surge...Read more
Shilpi Sneha
Manager - Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Rajat Rashmi
Senior Manager - Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, UAE
He Who Pays The Piper – The Independence of Experts in UK Construction Disputes and Civil Procedure Rule 35
After a criminal fraud trial over carbon credits collapsed and was abandoned in 2019, because an expert witness had no expertise and no qualifications, the Law Society Gazette announced on...Read more
Anthony Philpott
Barrister, Barrister (Direct Public Access and Authorised Litigator) UK - AP Legal Direct , UK
Non-Profit Organizations: Protecting Well-Meaning Volunteers From Personal Liability
This foundation pertains to one of the largest, oldest, and most prestigious, international non-profit genealogical organizations in the world, headquartered in the USA (the “Parent Organization”), that has Member organizations...Read more
Charlie Morgan
Principal and General Counsel, HessMorganHouse LLC, USA
The recent proposals for a reform of the German patent act:
A true ‘modernisation’ of the patent system?
The ‘modernisation’ of the patent law has dominated the debates around intellectual property in Germany in recent times. The need for changes to the current system has been controversially discussed...Read more
Spyros Makris
IPR Policy Manager, Ericsson GmbH, Germany
Ten Things Civil Law-system Lawyers Should Know About Common Law Contracts (That They Didn’t Teach Me at Law School)
My most sincere apologies to those readers who are qualified in common law jurisdictions as this paper is mainly addressed to an audience of civil law-system lawyers who, as myself,...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
Bills of Lading Forum Clauses and International Conventions:
Is there a Fundamental Flaw?
The last century had witnessed a number of efforts to harmonise the rules on carriage by sea through international conventions, which have continued in this century. These conventions are Hague...Read more
Petar Kragic
Legal counsel , Tankerska Plovidba dd, Croatia
You Bought It; Now Don’t Mess It Up! A Guide to Improving the Post-Acquisition Integration Process
This paper reviews certain complexities related to the post-acquisition integration process, focusing on the legal corporate function and other departments dedicated to risk prevention.
Study after study has shown that...Read more
Sarah Schwartz
Senior Legal Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions, Amadeus, Spain