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Understanding the Prohibition of Circumvention Under the EU Regulation on Interchange Fees for Credit and Debit Card Payment Transactions
1. The European Regulation on interchange fees’ cap to card based transactions, and its entry into force on 9 December 2015
2. Understanding the prohibition of circumventing the interchange fees’ cap
3. The Durbin...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
Licencing of Patent Applications - Pre-Grant Royalty Earning
Research and development is costly. International patent portfolios even more so. The business strategy of most corporations, when filing a patent application, is to seek some return on R&D investment,...Read more
Madelein Kleyn
Chief Legal and IP Officers, Omnisient Rf Pty, South Africa
Legal Recommendations Regarding Labor and Commercial Law Legal Operations in Spain
Finally, it appears to be that though slowly, the economic recovery has arrived to Spain. The crisis that hit the Country in 2008 seems to be water under the bridge,...Read more
Enrique Ceca
Partner, Ceca Magán Abogados, Spain
Isaac Millán
Chief Legal Counsel, Quirón Salud, Spain
Why Companies Screw Up: It's the Culture... Obviously
As more and more companies have made big compliance mistakes and have been caught by governmental authorities, pundits have been attributing these miscues to company culture. These incidents include the...Read more
David Birk
Managing Director, Black Belt Compliance, LLC, USA
PRIIPs Regulation and its Implementation: Consequences and Challenges
From 31 December 2016, manufacturers and distributors of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) will have to comply with the Regulation on Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and...Read more
Emilia Petrocelli
Senior Compliance Officer, Mediobanca SpA, Italy
Changing Dynamics of Negotiation of International Contracts in India: A Paradigm Shift from Stringent Risk Management to Business (Revenue) Driven Negotiation
Over the last few years, economic reality has changed considerably, it is most likely that contracts or business deals agreed more than 5 years ago will no longer be in...Read more
Harish Suryavanshi
Senior Corporate Counsel , Tech Mahindra Limited, India
Cost Effective Resolution of Construction Disputes
Litigation and arbitration of construction disputes have become increasingly expensive, time consuming and unappealing. Adjudication, expert determination and dispute boards (evaluative ADR) are increasingly being used to resolve disputes in...Read more
Donald Charrett
Barrister, Arbitrator & Mediator, Melbourne TEC Chambers, Australia
Invasion of Privacy in the Context of an Investigation: Does it Render Evidence Inadmissible in Canadian Civil Proceedings?
As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more
Alexis Kerr
General Counsel, Fraser Health Authority, Canada
Invasion of Privacy in the Context of an Investigation: Does it Render Evidence Inadmissible in Canadian Civil Proceedings?
As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more
Tamara Hunter
Associate Counsel, DLA Piper (Canada), Canada
A Comparative Analysis of US and English Contract Law Interpretation and Implied Terms
Contractual disputes frequently arise out of disagreements between commercial parties around ambiguous or incomplete contractual terms. Negotiating parties will seek to incorporate the terms of their commercial arrangement within a...Read more
Andrew Taylor
General Counsel, Hesco Group, UK