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Millennium Stadium Experience Joint Venture: A Busy Year
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The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, opened in 1999, was recently voted the best rugby stadium in the world. Its city centre location and fully retractable roof (the first in the...Read more

Gerallt Jones
Head of Corporate and Banking, Hugh James, UK
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Rhodri Lewis
Head of Legal Affairs, Welsh Rugby Union Group, UK
Global Subsidiary Compliance: Where are the Efficiencies?

Outsourcing is as old as the hills and any discussion around its increasing prevalence in today’s economy is merely a result of increased prominence in the media. Companies have worked...Read more

Matthew Eckford
Regional Engagement Director , TMF Group, UK
From Backstage to Lead Role: The Emergence of In-House Counsel in Executive Management

The evolution of General Counsel’s role within the corporate environment is an interesting one to observe. Traditionally, the in-house counsel was pigeonholed into a distinctly supporting role. The remit was...Read more

Morgan Deane
Chief Executive Officer & President of the Executive Board, Helvea-Baader Bank Group, Switzerland
Assessing Commercial Success at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board


U.S. patents increasingly are challenged on validity grounds through inter partes reviews at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB” or “board”). In fact, from September 2012 through June...Read more
John Jarosz
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA
Robert Vigil
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA
Management of Major Class Action Litigation by In-House Counsel

How does the General Counsel of a large corporation manage the aftermath of a crisis in which the company is directly implicated? As the propensity for victims to launch significant...Read more

Susan Taylor
General Counsel & Company Secretary, AusNet Services, Australia
The Role of Ethics for Central Bank Senior Management: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments
The proper management of ethics and conflicts of interest is important for banks and particularly essential for central banks. Much of central bank’s success hinges on their credibility in markets...Read more
Cyber Security: A Practical Viewpoint

Not a day goes by without a new cybersecurity hack which can threaten the very existence of the company concerned. Cybersecurity has shot up the list of concerns of...Read more
Nicolas Grunder
Group Head Legal, Software and IT, Abb, Switzerland

Iain Jacobs
Managing Director, The Contract Centre, Switzerland
Legal Aspects of Managing Government Service Delivery Contracts in Complex Environments

The evolution of public administration over the last few decades has seen governments increasingly outsource community and other services. While in the past focussed at an operational level, government agencies...Read more

Simon Miller
General Counsel, Save the Children Australia, Australia

Sophie Coleman
Senior Legal Counsel, Save the Children Australia, Australia
Functional Claiming Under U.S. Patent Law


Functional claim limitations can be useful for providing robust patent coverage, protecting what has been invented as well as variations therein. Patents employing such limitations can be useful for developing...Read more

Eric Curtin
Attorney, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Braden Katterheinrich
Senior Patent Attorney, Seagate Technology, USA

Shane Sondreal
Attorney at Law, Crawford Maunu PLLC, USA
Solvency II - Benefits of Strategic Implementation
Asset management is the professional management and trading of securities and other types of assets to achieve a specific investment goal. Asset managers specialise in managing discretionary mandates and investment...Read more

Maeve Verdon
Associate General Counsel, AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited, Ireland