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Business for the Rule of Law 
I will start with a bold statement; I think the law is one of the most fantastic, wondrous achievements in the history of human civilization! Even lawyers often don’t recognize...Read more
Ian McDougall
EVP & General Counsel, LexisNexis, USA
Avoiding Death by Governance: Taking the Governance, Risk and Compliance Frameworks to the next level
Contemporary governance, risk and compliance (GRC) principles advocate the shift from a silo approach to managing governance, risk and compliance to better rationalize the direct relationship between a particular risk,...Read more
John Cowell
General Counsel & Company Secretary, Healthdirect Australia, Australia
Negotiating Global Contracts: Balancing Legal Risk and Commerciality
Financial organisations have a far wider reach in today's business environment as the scale and scope of their customer base expands beyond local and regional borders. Accordingly in-house lawyers, as...Read more
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Assistant General Counsel, JP Morgan, UK
PSD II: Modernizing the EU Payment Services Landscape Through Effective Competition and Consumer Protection
On July 24, 2013, the European Commission (“the Commission”) issued a legislative proposal to update the existing Payments Services Directive (“PSD I”), which has been in force since 2007. The...Read more
Orestis Omran
Counsel, Dentons, Belgium
Emmanouela Nikolakopoulou
Associate Legal Counsel, Swift, Belgium
Collective Dismissal Process in Spain: Negotiate, Litigate, Appeal and Then Negotiate Some More
Collective redundancies in Spain continue to be conflictual situations both legally and practically as always, but they have now also become a most challenging legal environment. Before the major changes...Read more
Vicente Calle
Partner, Garrigues, Spain
Ricardo Mayo Aleson
Cumplimiento Legal y Normativo Región EMEA, Atento, Spain
The European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG)
A Portuguese Experience
Presently, Portugal is one of the countries where several multinational companies have decided to base their pooled, back-office or shared services. Natural, cultural and economic reasons are behind such decisions,...Read more
João Espanha
Partner, Espanha & Associados, Portugal
Carlos Fernandes
Head Legal Department, Cardif (BNPParibas insurance company), Portugal
The Battle for the Buy Button: Brand Owners' Curtain Call Against Online IP Infringement
There have been significant changes to brand protection considerations since Bass registered the UK’s first trade mark in 1876. Companies that once survived on a loyal local customer base now...Read more
Sarah Bazaraa
Associate Solicitor, Pannone Corporate, UK
Aidan Parsons
Legal Counsel, Bonnington Plastics Limited, UK
The Modernisation of Insurance Law in the United Kingdom
Insurance law in the UK has been modernised by the recent consumer and commercial insurance law reforms set out in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 (“CIDRA”) and...Read more
Ben Foat
Group General Counsel, Post Office, UK
Joint Property and Joint Ventures; the Laws of Unintended Consequences
This article examines how joint property is legally held by participants in an upstream oil and gas joint venture. Using the examples of English law and Kazakh law, it makes...Read more
Reg Fowler
Senior Legal Counsel, Shell International BV, Netherlands
What is Metadata?
Put shortly, metadata is “data about data”. Unfortunately, that definition tends to invite more questions than it may answer. The question of what constitutes metadata and how it is retained...Read more
David Carrington
Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia
Alida Vandewiele
Legal Counsel, Bombora Technologies, Australia