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In-house Legal Department: A cost generating support function or a profitability centre?
In-house legal teams, considered for a very very long time as the biggest enemy of the financial targets of salespeople, innovation teams, marketing gurus...., become day by day their closest...Read more
Ekin Sungur
Head of Legal, BNP Paribas Cardif, Turkey
The Case under the GDPR for Video and Audio Recording in Commercial Spaces and Interactions: An Example of Fitting Legacy Systems and Practices into a Forward-Looking Compliance Regime
This Paper considers how to square potentially the new General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR” or “Regulation”) requirements with the longstanding commercial practices of recording customers through video and...Read more

Daniel Corcoran
SVP, International General Counsel, Marchex, USA
Intellectual Property Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), whatever the form (patents, trademarks, copyrights, software designs, know-how, trade secrets, domain names etc.), are key assets of a company which substantiate its unique expertise, commercial...Read more

Camelia Gardot
Compliance Partner- Head of Connected Intelligence, Airbus, France
Open Source Software: Compliance and Risk Mitigation

The proprietorship of software was not a familiar concept in the 50’s and 60’s. The hardware and software were seen as an inseparable “system” and the cost for the operating...Read more

Shilpi Sneha
Manager - Legal, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Getting Foreign Personnel to Comply, While Respecting Cultural Differences and Allowing Some Level of Operational Independence
Multinational companies often struggle with what is the appropriate level of diligence and oversight to apply to their foreign subsidiaries, particularly those foreign subsidiaries in underdeveloped nations, or in regions...Read more

Sarah Peter
Senior Corporate Director Ethics and Anti-Corruption and Corporate Compliance Attorney, Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, USA
The European Single Market Post-Brexit: Managing The Barriers
The legal framework on which European based investment businesses operate is based predominantly on European Union (EU) legislation. For example:
• Property Casualty insurance - the applicable regulatory regime is primarily based...Read more

Maeve Verdon
Associate General Counsel, AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited, Ireland
Organizational Compliance Failures Quickly Become a Legal Problem

Legal and compliance are two essential functions in any contemporary organizational structure. The specific relationship between these two functions, including reporting lines and division of responsibilities, may well vary depending...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
New PSC Mechanism: Gross Split - The Challenge of Its Implementation in Indonesia

In 2015, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia (the “Ministry”) issued a new Ministry Regulation Number 38 of 2015 regarding the Acceleration of Exploitation...Read more

Krishna Agithama Wartadiredja
Legal Counsel, PT. Pertamina Hulu Energi Offshore North West Java, Indonesia
Rough Seas Ahead or Smooth Sailing? Tips and Tricks for In-house Telco Lawyers and Privacy Specialists Navigating Privacy Compliance
It can be challenging for in-house lawyers and privacy specialists to provide clear guidance on privacy compliance in a fast-moving world where organisations are using advanced, predictive insights into customer...Read more

Alison Cook
Associate Director, Privacy, Optus, Australia
Righting the Wrongs via Perceptive Board Action
This article would elementally consist of four parts: the first part would be dovetailed to aptly espouse on the need to be sensitive to the fact that for any kind...Read more