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A Case for Legal Due Diligence in Humanitarian Engagements
Many developing countries have “aspirational” laws, either carry-overs from years of European colonial rule or modeled after European laws (for example, British common law in Anglophone Africa). Rather than having...Read more
Jeffrey Erickson
Clinical Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
The new EFPIA Disclosure Code – Is the Need for Transparency Outweighing Data Privacy Compliance?
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) adopted on 24 June 2013, the EFPIA Disclosure Code, that is a code of conduct which obliges its member companies, from 2016,...Read more
John Giannakakis
Regional Counsel Southern Europe , G4s Rms , Greece
Life as an In-House Counsel in the Construction Industry
I am an English Qualified Solicitor who is currently working as Senior In-House Counsel for Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd (“SECL”) based in Seoul, South Korea; SECL is one of the...Read more
Joanne Reed
Senior In-House Counsel, Samsung Engineering Co.,, Korea
Digital Currency - may be a 'bit player' now, but in the longer term a 'game changer' for tax
The Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, has announced that the tax system is one of the key levers the government has to promote economic activity and...Read more
Dr Steven Stern
Adjunct Professor, College of Law & Justice, Victoria University, Australia
Keys to the Successful Acquisition of a Foreign Company
Your CEO comes to you and says the company is considering acquiring a company in Europe. What do you do? First of all, you need to determine why your...Read more
Ronald Prague
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Synchronoss Technologies Inc., USA
Data Analytics: The Future of Legal
During the 2002 season of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees both won an astounding 103 games, a feat only topped three times by any...Read more
Jeremiah Chan
Legal Director, Google Inc., USA
Data Privacy Day 2016: A Review of Current European Data Protection Regulation
The arrival of the 10th Data Privacy Day on 28 January may have been a timely reminder for in-house counsel to review their businesses’ compliance with ever-changing European data...Read more
Claire Walsh
Cclaw, UK
Doing Business in India: Challenges & Opportunities
India very recently moved up 12 positions to 130th among 189 nations on the ‘ease of doing business’ matrix announced by World Bank recently giving a thrust to India’s attempt...Read more
Pratibha Jain
Partner, Nismith Desai Associates, India
Is There Bite in the Amended Malaysian Housing Development Laws?
The Malaysian government has recently introduced major changes to the Housing Development Act 1966 (“HDA”) which is the mother of all housing development regulations in Malaysia. The HDA essentially governs...Read more
Angeline Yee Yi Wei
Vice President, Maybank, Malaysia
Those In-house Lawyers That Wear Multiple Hats in the Land of Online Gambling … 
Every month the author of this article gives the new souls who have joined his company an induction presentation on the in-house legal and regulatory affairs teams – the presentation...Read more
Martin Lycka
Legal Counsel , The Betfair Group , UK